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Word for the Day, Monday, January 10, 2005
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Posted on 01/10/2005 5:14:57 AM PST by xsmommy

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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".

prosaic

adj ;pro·sai·cal·ly adv. ; pro·saic·ness n.

1: not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay" [syn: matter-of-fact] 2: lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn: pedestrian, prosy, earthbound] 3: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum, unglamorous, unglamourous]

Etymology: Late Latin prsaicus, from Latin prsa, prose. See prose

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.

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To: secret garden

OMG you poor thing, go sleep right this minute!


121 posted on 01/10/2005 8:35:17 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Since homosexuality is now so prosaic and mainstream that SpongeBob is "out", when will our children be subjected to the "Health" instruction on this topic in the same way that they receive "smoking" education? Last week, the video about a woman who had her tongue removed after mouth cancer- next week--anal warts!! (Aren't you all glad I don't teach this class?)

From "The Federalist" newsletter: Speaking of homosexuals activists, they are, once again, targeting children -- this time with "family-friendly" cartoon characters such as Barney and SpongeBob. Teacher lesson plans promoting homosexual coupling as "normal," including a video using the hit 70s tune "We Are Family" starring Barney and SpongeBob, will be distributed to 61,000 public and private elementary schools nationwide on 11 March to coincide with a proposed "National We Are Family Day."

Some of the "partners" in production are: Anti-Defamation League, Crown Theatres, Disney Channel, FedEx (providing shipping), Nickelodeon, HIT Entertainment, Nile Rodgers/Sony Publishing/The Bernard Edwards Estate/Warner Chapel, Nelvana, PBS, Scholastic, Sesame Workshop, Toni Mendez Shapiro Estate, and WGBH-TV in Boston. (Be sure and thank them!) Along with a lengthy list of popular kids' shows ("Arthur," "Blue's Clues," "Clifford the Big Red Dog," "Little Mermaid," and "The Magic School Bus," just to name a few), the video also features cameo appearances by entertainers Bill Cosby, Diana Ross and long-time Village Idiot Whoopi Goldberg.

I guess that news makes this a hate crime.


122 posted on 01/10/2005 9:01:40 AM PST by Dutchgirl (In vino veritas...)
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To: Dutchgirl

A+++ i do not believe that spongebob is gay. i just don't. just bc he has no girlfriend and is best friends with Patrick does not give rise to the presumption of fag. i mean, danny, joey and jessie, all live together in San Fran and not a single one of them is gay (can you tell that i am subjected to an inordinate amount of Full House reruns? )


123 posted on 01/10/2005 9:07:01 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Says who?


124 posted on 01/10/2005 9:16:39 AM PST by Laura Earl (1/2way290)
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To: xsmommy

Whatever happened to the middle daughter?


125 posted on 01/10/2005 9:18:19 AM PST by Laura Earl (1/2way290)
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To: xsmommy

Are you prosaic if you're not poetic?


126 posted on 01/10/2005 9:20:33 AM PST by mikrofon (Waxing prosaic for 50 years...)
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To: Laura Earl

in real life? or on the show?


127 posted on 01/10/2005 9:42:19 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: mikrofon

probably, but i prefer prosaic to poetic, personally! A+++


128 posted on 01/10/2005 9:42:45 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Good day, xsmommy:




It must be rough being a scion or scioness.
Living a life of privilige and ease.
Without parents and constantly under duress.
As Trust Funds grow fat, oily and obese.

There's no impetus for improvement.
To excel or succeed.
Surrounded by peers equally priveliged and lazy.

Never getting your hands dirty.
Having everything given to you grows old.
Your vision becomes hazy.

Thinking thoughts simple and prosaic.
Will become anathema, dangerous and archaic.
You will think yourself steeped in "Diversity".

Because your gardener's Hispanic.
The family lawyer a Jew.
Your grades will be well padded before University.
You'll fight over Mummy and Daddy's Off Shore Account.

Manitaining your status will be such a panic.
As Daddy was leveraged before you could count.
There's money and fame. It's all up and fair.
Holding the middle position on "Hollywood Squares".

Jack.



129 posted on 01/10/2005 9:44:51 AM PST by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
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To: Jack Deth

gee, i don't know anyone like that, but sounds like a rough life ; ) A++++


130 posted on 01/10/2005 9:47:40 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Real life.


131 posted on 01/10/2005 9:50:55 AM PST by Laura Earl (1/2way290)
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To: Laura Earl

i don't know, i thought i saw something about her recently on ABC Family, but i can't recall what it was.


132 posted on 01/10/2005 9:51:44 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: secret garden; hobbes1; dubyaismypresident
jimbo, never prosaic, loses again. :::sob:::
133 posted on 01/10/2005 9:56:51 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Free the rug!


134 posted on 01/10/2005 10:16:58 AM PST by NeoCaveman (The tax code: END IT, Don't mend it.)
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To: dubyaismypresident

i meant to ask you if you have heard if he had any health problems. my SIL said at church one weekend they prayed for a Jim Traficant something about a liver transplant situation or something, i can't recall. but it had me worried for jimbo's health.


135 posted on 01/10/2005 10:18:21 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I hadn't heard anything about it. Old Jim hasn't been in the news much here, until today.


136 posted on 01/10/2005 10:21:43 AM PST by NeoCaveman (The tax code: END IT, Don't mend it.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I knew a girl named Perky once.

No, twice!

137 posted on 01/10/2005 10:36:12 AM PST by theDentist (Jerry Springer: PBS for White Trash)
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To: Gabz; xsmommy

Gabz:

You should know that even if the means were available to get out if being lost. We men would never use it. Let alone admit to being "slightly off course".

My brother had an old 1968 E Type Jag convertible. Black. Wire wheels. 5 speed. An absolute dream to drive. He traded it in on a baby blue VW Beetle. Insurance was killing him.

I do miss that Jag.

Jack.


138 posted on 01/10/2005 10:36:58 AM PST by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
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To: dubyaismypresident; xsmommy; Laura Earl; Argh; theDentist
Free the rug!

Shave the whales!

Go down to Brazil!

(Go down on Brasile? )

No.

Wait.

Don't do that!

139 posted on 01/10/2005 10:56:21 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

:O


140 posted on 01/10/2005 11:02:09 AM PST by Laura Earl (1/2way290)
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