Posted on 09/16/2004 5:30:41 AM PDT by 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. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....
obviate \OB-vee-ayt\, verb:
obviates, obviating, obviated; transitive verb
obviation, obviator; noun
1. To prevent by interception
2. To anticipate and dispose of or make unnecessary
It is reasonable to assume that Martin acquired the most basic skills of the rural gentleman: horse-riding, elementary sword-play and the minor degree of literacy that compulsory attendance at divine service encouraged were all requirements that preceded -- even obviated -- the need for a more formal education. --James McDermott, Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer
Etymology: Latin obviare, "to meet or encounter," from ob viam, "placed or coming in the way" (ob, "in front of"; via, "way").
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Morning Kiddies
mernin!
1st??????? ME?????????
Good morning
I was just thinking about you and CG! How are things looking in "Bama?
3?
Right now we are getting rain and some wind, but the worst is yet to come. Areas south of here already have widespread power outages.
Whooo-Hooooo! Here I am all alone with three lovely ladies.
It's your lucky day. I don't know about the other two, but I'm commando! ;)
Ditty Of New Orleans
Words and Music by Arlo Guthrie
Parody and Copyright by LonePalm
Swimming through the City of New Orleans,
Hurricane Ivan, Thursday morning gale,
fifteen bars and fifteen flooded Ryders,
three instructors, twenty-five tons of whale.
Inward bound to America,
this hurricane from Africa
and rolls along through houses, farms and fields,
flat’ning towns that once had names
and school yards full of Jamaicans.
and boulevards of the rusted automobiles.
Good morning America, how are you?
Say don't you know me; I'm the Big Easy?
I'm the lake they called the City of New Orleans,
I'll be blown five hundred miles when the day is done.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Morning! No way to obviate Ivan but I hope the CG clan is safe.
Vast, thanks for the sweet compliment but I am NOT commando! lol LE's clothes blew away!
We are fine so far. I stayed at home, and CG went to work, but he is now on his way home. It is getting pretty dang breezy here. Just talked to my stepdaughter, and she is fine.
Good - I was just going to ask about the daughter..........
Just my undies.
hiya
The storm ended up passing east of where they are sheltered. We just hope the home they closed on last week is unscathed.
I saw on tv where several people have been killed from tornados......... a hurricane is a horrible act of nature isn't it?
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