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WORD FOR THE DAY: WASTREL

Posted on 06/05/2015 4:54:50 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

wastrel - wey-struh l

hear it pronounced

noun

Definition:

1: a wasteful person; spendthrift; prodigal
2. an idler or vagabond
3: one who expends resources foolishly and self-indulgently : profligate

Origin of WASTREL

"spendthrift, idler," 1847, from waste (v.) + pejorative suffix -rel.

First Known Use: circa 1841

Synonyms:

fritterer, high roller, profligate, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, waster, prodigal

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.




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To: Louis Foxwell

Why thank you, FRiend! :-)


21 posted on 06/05/2015 7:43:56 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: theDentist
Nailed it.

Third Place

22 posted on 06/05/2015 7:45:31 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
You got it.

limerick award

23 posted on 06/05/2015 7:46:24 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: tioga
This is too nice.

Chesa... Be cha Who Onkay Chubaka... (Music Begins) Chubaka!!! [Chorus:] Urrrrrrrr... Uh uh uh uhn, Urrrr... Chewy!!!!!!!!!!!! [Bridge:] Ooo uh, Ooo uh, Ooo uh... Urrrr... (Repeat Chorus) Urrrrrr... Uhhhh... (Repeat Bridge) Urr... Uh... Chewy is that you? Urrrrrrr... Ohhh... What A Wookie!!! Ha Ha Ha... No Bechack han holo Han Solo...

24 posted on 06/05/2015 7:50:29 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Wastrels; seen wailing.
To spend, not their money,
But yours, for the children!

Eh, not a perfect haiku. :-)


25 posted on 06/05/2015 7:52:45 AM PDT by RikaStrom ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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To: RikaStrom
But a nice try.


26 posted on 06/05/2015 8:12:46 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Apparently wastrel doesn’t just apply to money, but to produce. Unless they create scarcity:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3297191/posts


27 posted on 06/05/2015 8:47:33 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: secret garden; xsmommy

28 posted on 06/05/2015 9:16:10 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Louis Foxwell
Will a house seat in Illinois be wasted on the son of a wastrel or can Flynn overcome son of LaThug?
29 posted on 06/05/2015 11:23:06 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: tioga

Funny! I have never camped and plan to keep the streak alive.


30 posted on 06/06/2015 5:53:21 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Work went late after lunch yesterday, and I did an estimate this morning-

Obama acts just like a wastrel-
Plays golf and thumbs his nose
At us-taking OUR taxes for trips
And Michelle buys ugly clothes

He tells us not to use energy
From oil, or all will be lost-
Each vaca he takes burns a week
Worth of energy out the exhaust

Jimmy Carter was pretty clueless
But at least when he made a fuss
He turned down the heat in the WH
And didn’t act more equal than us...


31 posted on 06/06/2015 12:16:00 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: secret garden

When I got home from doing an estimate, I turned on the TV to see some news, and a cathedral full of people were mourning at the funeral Mass for Biden’s son who died of cancer-that was at about 11am. I turned off the TV, went about my business-turned it on an hour later, and there were generals giving speeches and awarding medals to the deceased-I thought he was a JAG officer-you would have thought some head of state had died-I half expected the pope to show up and canonize him right there.

Perhaps I’m being insensitive, but what is the point of all that public demonstration of grief, complete with Obama playing a role? I realize the man was too young to die, but is all that really considered tasteful or necessary?


32 posted on 06/06/2015 12:31:55 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5
Excellent and on point.


33 posted on 06/06/2015 4:43:49 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Thank you!


34 posted on 06/06/2015 5:06:11 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

I saw it as an opportunity to polish obama’s image. I don’t believe he wrote the eulogy he read, but it was a very nice one.


35 posted on 06/07/2015 8:36:13 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

That is no doubt true-he is cynical enough to make even an occasion like that all about him, if he can-but it still seemed to me to be somewhat in bad taste-reminded me of that democrat/Wellstone funereally-all it lacked was the political speeches and cheering.


36 posted on 06/07/2015 11:34:27 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Louis Foxwell

WASTREL: someone who is no longer unable to have children


37 posted on 06/18/2015 5:18:22 AM PDT by Cowman (As Jerry Williams used to say --- When comes the revolution....)
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To: Cowman

lemme get this strait.
The “someone” you mention was unable to have children but is now no longer unable to have children. They are therefor a wastral.
Don’t get it. Elucidate me.


38 posted on 06/18/2015 6:02:59 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Someone who was sterile — I thought this was a bit more obvious than “one who stopped washing with surgical scrub.” Punny lines are my specialty after all.
39 posted on 06/18/2015 9:12:24 AM PDT by Cowman (As Jerry Williams used to say --- When comes the revolution....)
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To: Cowman
Sometimes I am so slow snails and turtles leave me in their wake. I even tried googling the word. Really very funny. I have been saving this for just such an occasion.

First Place


40 posted on 06/18/2015 9:48:43 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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