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Word For The Day, Friday, October 1, 2004
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
| October 1, 2004
| The Verbivores
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."
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To: VRWCmember
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 constipation’s 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 it’d 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.....
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posted on
10/01/2004 5:46:19 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
To: dubyaismypresident; xsmommy; Slip18; hobbes1; Argh; TheGrimReaper; SeaDragon; RikaStrom; ...
Get in here you miscreants!
To: Eala; LonePalm; MeeknMing; TxBec; Cyber Liberty; Dan from Michigan; EODGUY; pankot; ...
Get in here you miscreants!
To: VRWCmember
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posted on
10/01/2004 5:48:00 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(It was like that when I got here.)
To: VRWCmember
Will the investigation into all the lies Kerry told last night be called "fusti-gate"?
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posted on
10/01/2004 5:48:29 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(John Kerry: The" you're rubber and I'm glue" candidate.)
To: camle
Great song parody but it didn't use the WFTD.
To: VRWCmember; yall
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!
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posted on
10/01/2004 5:50:31 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: VRWCmember
WELL JUST WHY NOT FUSTIGATE ME ABOUT IT WILLYA????
YEESH!!!
where the he!! did they move the wet bar to???
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posted on
10/01/2004 5:51:09 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
To: VRWCmember
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posted on
10/01/2004 5:51:09 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: VRWCmember
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posted on
10/01/2004 5:51:36 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Hurricanes and Kerry/Edwards have 2 things in common - hot air and destruction.)
To: tioga
they're professionals. they know what they're doing. (?)
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posted on
10/01/2004 5:52:00 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
To: martin_fierro
Won! Close. Here's a 2nd place ribbon for you.
To: tioga
Stooooooooooooooopid.
But think about the concert tour they were playing..........
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posted on
10/01/2004 5:53:40 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Hurricanes and Kerry/Edwards have 2 things in common - hot air and destruction.)
To: tioga
To: VRWCmember
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posted on
10/01/2004 5:55:19 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(It was like that when I got here.)
To: VRWCmember
Idiots like the band Treephort need to be thoroughly fustigated everytime they act like stupid antisocial pyromaniacal fools.Lol, mission accomplished.
(Who's Treephort, and do they know they've been fustigated?) (^:
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posted on
10/01/2004 6:00:34 AM PDT
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat -- it is to prevail."- Pres. Bush, CinC, 9/21)
To: VRWCmember; Gabz; xsmommy
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.
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posted on
10/01/2004 6:05:50 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: VRWCmember
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)
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posted on
10/01/2004 6:06:39 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: P.O.E.; VRWCmember
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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posted on
10/01/2004 6:10:56 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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