Word For The Day, Monday, January 26, 2004

The Verbivores | 1/26/04 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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coruscate \kor*es*kate\ verb
coruscating, coruscates, coruscated; transitive verb
coruscation; noun

1. To give forth flashes of light; sparkle and glitter.
2. To exhibit sparkling virtuosity;
3. A flash of intellectual brilliancy.

A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call ta little coruscation.
--Boyle.

Etymology: [Latin corusc re, corusc t-, to flash.]

[Hegewisch Dupa]

The other option is to fire off a good thousand words on rare dung and then when it gets handed back, look all incredoulous (look up the spelling first) and say "OH! I thought you said 'Endangered Feces!!!'"

[xsmommy]

you are SUCH a dupa....

[NeoCaveman]

You prompted me to check mine..............I love my ISP's spam filter system.............only 42 emails got through it since Thursday morning!!!

I don't even check my "Bulk EMail Box" I just delete the contents everytime I log on.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Morning! Just in from shoveling snow! Yuk!

I'd tell my son that Christian Conservatives are an endangered species....... perhaps we could get some kind of special recognition?

[xsmommy]

i do not intend to set as much as a single toe outside today, not with 3 dogwalkers home from school!!!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

My son is doing school work, the daughter helped me shovel....... it's all cleared and ready for the ice storm later today! lol.........darn it.......

You know how good it feels to see that clean driveway? We still have the "ice hump" at the edge near the road...... I feel like I'm driving over a barrier! lol

[Conspiracy Guy]

Kill all domestic animals. Restore the predators. Dig up the concrete and asphalt. Then kill all the people.

CG

[NeoCaveman]

Where is that Howard Dean Crazy Train link? I can listen to it now, as I am at home.

I really really need to get a new car.

[xsmommy]

dang, your poor homeschooled son can't even get a dang snowday!!! ya big meanie! just kidding, i know you balance his school stuff with fun stuff all the time!

[xsmommy]

it was at farmgolf.com, if that still works. try it, and i will look around to see if i can find an actual link.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I still have to get 180 days in.....lol......and with traveling to find a new house this spring I've got to take advantage of all the days I can........ but you're right - we do fun stuff too! The History Channel is a GREAT thing......lol

[dixie sass]

Groannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[Gabz]

I hate the ice humps at the end of the driveway....but I have to say I am quite impressed with VDOT's work.

Both the secondary road I live on and the tertiary road on the west side of the property are completely and totally free and clear of any snow at all. Since about 10 not less than six times have plows come through here, 3 times in each direction.

[xsmommy]

i admire you tremendously, whyisa, i wish i had the fortitude to homeschool. i think it is a wonderful thing. NOT for everyone, mind you, but you are mentally stable, intelligent and educated and not andrea yates!

[Gabz]

Morning Dixie - did you encounter any problems getting home because of the weather?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

We live just off the turnpike - PenDot keeps the major highways very clear...... and our township does a pretty good job, but last time we got ice it just hardened so quickly with temps in the teens! I chopped and chopped and salted and cussed and chopped and salted more....... It will be there 'til spring......lol

[international american]

"my name isn't BSandEquivocationShallSetYouFree."

That moniker belongs to Andy Looney as of last night's rant:)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Try a "newspaper" called "Old News" ....

It's got a wonderful, interesting, wide-group of articles every month on different views of history.

They write each story (Greeks, American explorations out west through the Grand Canyon, polar expeditions, African explorers, barbarian attacks on Rome, Moorish attacks on Vienna (that "invented the bagel and coffee shops!), etc.) as if the "story" just occurred. The personalities of who was involved, and the background of each story, are beautifully done.

Freemail me your address and I'll send a couple of my back copies.

[dixie sass]

It was so good to see you again! Residual headache from the noise Saturday! Hope you had a great trip home! Wesley Clark, I want to see!

[international american]

"Andy Rooney


Posted on 01/26/2004 7:46:54 AM PST by presidio9


President Bush has made two interesting proposals. First, he wants us to launch a new expedition to send men to the moon and then Mars.

People who support the president are enthusiastic about this plan for space exploration.

People who don't like him think that if anyone goes to Mars, it should be President Bush.

The president has also proposed spending $1.5 billion to promote marriage in America. This may prove more difficult than going to Mars.

The Democrats, who would rather have President Bush on Mars than in the White House, suggest that as a role model for his promotion of marriage, he should take his wife to Mars with him.

This would make Laura Bush the first lady on Mars.

I'm ambivalent about the president's plan. I agree we have to keep exploring. Humans would still be cavemen if we hadn't explored. I'm sure there were people in 1492 who thought it was a waste of money when Christopher Columbus set out on the trip that ended up with his discovery of America.

We ought to be continually trying to find out whether there are other worlds out there - even other living things. It seems unlikely that Earth would be the only place in the whole vast universe with life on it.

If there's a God, why would God have put human beings on Earth and nowhere else? If there is other life, we should find it. Maybe they know something we don't know.

But then, I think of all that money. There are so many things we need to do here at home. Space exploration hasn't produced much for us except some good pictures.

The moon is like a trip to the mall compared with going to Mars. The moon is 250,000 miles away. Mars is 35 million miles. Scientists have said that it would probably be a one-way trip for whoever made it, because gravity on Mars is so strong that it would be impossible to bring along enough fuel for them to take off and return to Earth.

Anyone going there might never come back. This makes the trip to Mars by President Bush especially attractive to Democrats.