Posted on 10/01/2004 5:45:27 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".
fustigate \FUSS-tuh-gayt\ verb
1. to beat with or as if with a short heavy club
2. to criticize severely *
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
Example sentence:
The incumbent senator has been fustigated by his opponent for twice voting to raise taxes.
Did you know?
Though it won't leave a bump on your head, severe criticism can be a blow to your self-esteem. It's no wonder that "fustigate," when it first appeared in the 17th century, originally meant "to cudgel or beat with a short heavy stick," a sense that reflects the word's derivation from the Latin noun "fustis," which means "club" or "staff." The "criticize" sense is more common these days, but the violent use of "fustigate" was a hit with earlier writers like George Huddesford, who in 1801 told of an angry Jove who "cudgell'd all the constellations, ... / Swore he'd eject the man i' the moon ... / And fustigate him round his orbit."
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.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!
Here is my example with WFTD.
Idiots like the band Treephort need to be thoroughly fustigated everytime they act like stupid antisocial pyromaniacal fools.
"Vote for Change" Band Thrown Off Stage After Drummer Strips and Sets Thong On Fire
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
No pushing at the door please!
It's Commando Friday!
Flip Flop, I was taking a plop
Sitting on my flushable john
A rub-a-dub, had my feet in the tub
Thinking everything was alright
Well, I stepped up off the bowl, put my feet on the floor,
I reached the paper round me
And I found there was more, and then
Flip Flop! I went back to my plop
Well how was I to know that constipations coming on
They was a-turning and a-squriming,
Squealin' with the feelin', punting and a-grunting,
Rocking and a-rolling, yeah!
Flop FLop, I heard another plop
Splashing water right up my ---!
Flip flop, I was wishing itd stop
But suddenly I smelled me some gas
There was a big explosion with-a bang boom
Good Golly, this folly was-a sailing cross the room!
A-well-a, Flip Flop, I forgot about the plop
I went and put my underwear on, yay...
I was a rolling and a strolling, reeling with the feeling,
Moving and a groovin', flipping and a flopping, yeah!
Yes, I was a-flipping and a flopping
I was a-rolling and a-strolling
Yeah, I was a-moving and a-grooving
We was a-reeling with the feeling
We was a-rolling and a-strolling
Moving with the grooving
Flip Flop, yeah!
Yes, I was a-flipping and a flopping
I was a-flipping and a flopping
I was a-moving and a-grooving.....
Get in here you miscreants!
Get in here you miscreants!
Won!
Will the investigation into all the lies Kerry told last night be called "fusti-gate"?
Great song parody but it didn't use the WFTD.
Mornin', everybody ! Happy Friday ! TGIF !!
As Grampa Dave says:
Mastah Kerry, the Devil has impregnated you with one of Je$$e
HyJack$on's love children! After you give birth to Je$$e's love
child, it will call you MaMa!
WELL JUST WHY NOT FUSTIGATE ME ABOUT IT WILLYA????
YEESH!!!
where the he!! did they move the wet bar to???
Morning.
they're professionals. they know what they're doing. (?)
Close. Here's a 2nd place ribbon for you.
Stooooooooooooooopid.
But think about the concert tour they were playing..........
That was my example.
< bowing >
Lol, mission accomplished.
(Who's Treephort, and do they know they've been fustigated?) (^:
The Watergate breakin was, of course, only the fustigate scandal that the Washington media have jumped on (in their usual follow-the-liberal-mind-numbed-drill routine) as a title for all others.
Oh, well. good story........
BTW, on Fox anyway Bush is looking good in the clips this morning..... It looks like he chose to fustigate on the right issues for sound bites to make his case. I feel much better this morning.
I'm gonna be/may be gone most of the day, duty calls........but first the elliptical.......
(Note to self, read thread first before jumping in......read thread first before jumping in..........rea)
Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Hey! No fair!
Teach! Teach!
I'm tellin'!
POE's copying my homework!
Teach!
(I mean ... Really! The nerve. An' besides, just 'cause he handed it in first doesn't mean he didn't copy it from me. )
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