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.]

[NeoCaveman]

I'm guessing she has the "lockbox" in her bag....

[Argh]

see y'all when I come up for air!

That's why you're my hero.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

HA!

[xsmommy]

i know it requires every brain cell in your skull to pull it off, but lucky for your son, that is plenty : ) good luck with the house stuff!

[MeekOneGOP]

So does hilary.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I"m so glad my talents aren't lost on you.......

[Gabz]

Ok - back to sorting things in preparation for showing the house......see y'all when I come up for air!

You have my heartfelt sympathy and understanding.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Admittedly, math genes are rare in our family.......lol

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Yea you just went through this recently - I wont' have a basement in Houston so I'm getting rid of a LOT of stuff......not going to junk up the new house!

[xsmommy]

hey, i can handle third grade math, that is about it!

[international american]

Sure beats the OTHER Hillary:)

[Argh]

Wrong Hilary - WHEW! Very nice, um, what do I call you now? MOGOP? MOG? M&M was so convenient. I guess "Meek" will have to do.

Here's a groaner Robt. and Max have probably heard a zillion times:

Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar. One says, "I've lost my electron." The other says, "Are you sure?" The first replies, "Yes, I'm positive..."

[NeoCaveman]

see y'all when I come up for air!
That's why you're my hero.

ROTFLMAO!!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, Math Jeans are in my family (since my mom has an accounting degree, my dad has a civil engineering degree, my wife has a chemical engineering degree, I have a nuclear engineering and a statistics degree, my only older brother has a physics degree, one of younger brothers has a civil construction degree, one of my other-younger brothers has an operational analysis degree, one of my sister has has finance degree, one of my other sisters is getting her business degree) ...

... but she keeps outgrowing the darn things and we have to keep buying her new books, new clothes, and new math courses.

[MeekOneGOP]

haha! Yeah ...

[MeekOneGOP]

ha ha !

Meek is fine. Or MOGOP. Just as long as I get called to supper. :O)

[Laura Earl]

Here is the pic of the wedding sampler I ordered.

[Lady Jag]

If she has the lockbox in her bag, could that be...Hitlery?

[Argh]

Three nuns were talking. The first nun said, "I was cleaning the father's room the other day and do you know what I found? A bunch of pornographic magazines!"

"What did you do?" the other nuns asked.

"Well, of course I threw them all in the trash." The second nun said, "Well, I can top that. I was in the father's room putting away the laundry and I found a bunch of condoms."

"Oh my," gasped the other nuns. "What did you do?" they asked. "I poked holes in all of them," she replied.

The third nun said, "Oh, shit."

[trussell]

Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets.

"We don't have half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at the counter.

"You don't?"

"We only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply. "So I can't order a half-dozen nuggets, but I can order six?"

"That's right." So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.

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The paragraph above doesn't amaze me because of what happened a couple of months ago.

I was checking out at the local Tom Thumb with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those "Dividers" that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed.

After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the "Divider", looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.

Not finding the bar code, she asked me, "Do you know how much this is?", and I said to her, "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today."

She said "OK" and I paid her for the things and left.

She had no clue what had just happened.....

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A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM thingy".

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I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. Do you need some help? I asked.

She replied, "I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door un-locker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenient store) would have a battery to fit this?"

"Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm too?" I asked.

"No, just this remote thingy," she answered, handing it and the car keys to me.

As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk."

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Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?"

"Just use copier machine paper," the secretary told her.

With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.

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CONCLUSION:

Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid



These people wouldn't know coruscation if it bit them in the a$$.LOL