Posted on 08/02/2004 8:52:03 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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".
cajole \kuh-JOAL\ verb
1. to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance; coax *
2. to deceive with soothing words or false promises
Example sentence:
Peter's friends cajoled him into coming to the party even though he was not in the mood to go.
Etymology: Did you know?
You might not think to associate "cajole" with "cage," but it's likely that these two words are connected. Researchers have made an association between the prattle of a caged bird and the persistent wheedling of a person attempting to get something out of someone else. "Cajole" comes from a French verb, "cajoler," which now means "coax" but at one time meant "to chatter like a jay." Some etymologists theorize that "cajoler" is from "gaiole," an Old North French word meaning "birdcage" and ancestor to our word "jail." "Gaiole" derives from a Late Latin word, "caveola," which means "little cage" and is the diminutive of the Latin "cavea" ("cage" or "cavity"). Our word "cage" derives from this noun, and "cave" is a close relative.
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that is HILARIOUS!
I felt kinda guilty when I woke up though........... ;^)
Toby Keith is coming to Nissan Pavilion in Sept and xshub is busy trying to get us tickets, his lesbian love, Terri Clark, is playing with Tobe. i will be glad to go and have meaningful eyecontact with toby again, so he can see the dyke-girl. Bec, we went to see Terri Clark in June and it is clear that her following is very lesbian, which sent xshub scurrying to research this and it appears to be commonly accepted that she is also. he is still struggling with this little factoid, since he is madly in love with her.
To make matters worse, I have tax clients with an 8/15 due date.....$#!T.
Meanwhile, I am sputtering along with my 7 yo Dell PC, which is currently running low on kerosene, so will need to stop now and refill it.
Be back ASAP.
Looks like you interpreted the dream correctly-one of my trusty textbooks on dream interpretation informs me that dreaming of being a student can mean that you will achieve a high position-to dream of being unprepared for a written test/tests could indeed mean that you feel unprepared for an upcoming event.
sorry to hear that the pC is still ailing, grimmy. i miss you, even though you didn't miss me when i was gone ; )
I love Toby Keith-lucky you! And xs, be sure to tell your hubby that the two lesbians who live up the road from us have Terri Clark blasting from the speakers on their deck every Friday and Saturday night-I'm sure all of us at this end of the road know all her songs word for word just from hearing them played and played over there.
Speaking of that, the next door neighbors have gone to visit relatives in New Mexico for a week and have a 30-something (I'm 90% sure) lesbian couple house and dog sitting. These two apparently do not realize that the screen of trees near our fence between the neighbors' side deck and ours, and the lattice on our deck does not completely conceal that deck, and that from our upstairs balcony you can see right down through the trees onto the whole back deck because our house is taller than that one. The more attractive one of the pair was actually out in the side yard turning on the sprinkler in thong panties when I looked out the kitchen window after we got home from supper-anyone walking or driving down the road could have seen her. When I exclaimed "Holy s***, this crazy woman is nearly naked where she can be seen from the road!", hubby nearly ran over me and Husky girl getting to the window for a peek, and he was working in the shop on a tabletop all this morning and staring out the window in there that faces their side yard and deck, watching them lolling around au naturel. Men...
My sympathies for your computer anguish-it is indeed frustrating and time consuming.
Got the ole "I-forgot-to-take-the-class-until-finals" nightmare, eh?
Happens to all of us.
Sounds like ya gotta find some way to distract him,eh?
Poor xshub!!!!
But lucky you!!!!!
Living where you do, who needs to pay for entertainment?????
It really is entertaining, because people come here from the city and assume that because there is more than 20 feet between the houses that no one can see farther than that, even though most people in the city has a privacy fence and no one out here does. And they seem to think that because the road has no traffic to speak of, no one ever uses it (most of the traffic on this road is foot and bike). That is one of the things we were laughing about with our friends at dinner last night-we were all recounting incidents on our respective roads where our townie neighbors either thought they were invisible behind the trees and bushes, or that everyone else on the road was deaf and blind. The other guy's wife pointed out that what is especially funny is someone going out on their deck or patio to sunbathe or whatever nude and "private"-and the house on the next property has two stories, windows and a balcony...
All I have to do to distract him is tell him about this new Northern tool catalog that came in the mail yesterday-that will bring him in and keep him occupied for at least an hour...
ROFL!!!!!!!
yes, i love toby keith also. well it is a shame that rick james died, but the radio station is playing his music all weekend in memoriam, and i am loving that! too bad xsteen didn't tell me til just this afternoon. i have the stereo blaring and the windows open, so i can stitch on the deck. that is as wild as i will get on OUR deck, T5! unlike your neighbors. i don't walk around outside sans clothes. if anyone sees me inside, well then, they are a peeping TOM!
HAH! your hub is funny!
I won't go outside in the daylight undressed, either-you never know who is going to walk or drive down the road, or who across the water has a telescope on their deck.
Hubby says the people up here that have telescopes on their decks to watch their neighbors across the water in their houses and on their decks are peeping Toms and need to get a life-there are quite a few of them, so I hear...
well if someone is peeping and i don't know it, it can't bother me. i am not going to worry about that possibility here, bc i can't conceive that this area is as wild as your's !!! LOL!
I doubt that someone could peep where you live without either xspup or a neighbors' dog raising hell at a stranger in the driveway unless they did it with field glasses from their deck. The reason it is so easy to do here is because the distance between houses and the fact that this is a heavily wooded area makes it easy for someone to spy even from the next road up the hill from us with good field glasses or a telescope. The 3/4 mile expanse of water in back of everyone's house offers a clear field of vision for someone on the other side with a telescope, as well, which I still find sort of creepy...
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