Posted on 05/25/2005 5:16:48 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".
threnody \THREN-uh-dee\ noun
a song of lamentation for the dead; elegy
Example sentence:
In the opera's final scene, the leading lady sings a threnody to mourn the murdered king.
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"Threnody" encompasses all genres. There are great threnodies in prose (such as the lines from Charles Dickens' _Bleak House_ upon the death of Little Jo: "Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead..."), in poetry (as in W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues": "The stars are not wanted now: put out every one, / Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun..."), and in music (Giovanni Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater," for one). "Threnody," which we borrowed from the Greek word "threnoidia" (from "threnos," the word for "dirge"), has survived in English since the early 1600s. "Melody" and "tragedy" are related to "threnody" through the Greek root that forms their ending -- "aeidein," which means "to sing." By the same token, "comedy" is related as well.
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that is so funny! i even like the nexium commercial with the two oldsters on it, that seem to still be in love. they are very cute together. i hope they aren't ACTORS!
what the heck is the cabbage patch and how can i use it to torture mine?
YOU, DG, are a MASTER of teen humiliation...
Cabbage patch? May as well do the monkey!!
A couple summers ago I went with my besty to Great America with her son and his friend, and they were of age to be on their own. So we were walking around, not knowing what to do with ourselves...until I had my friend howling when I bought her a temporary tattoo to be airbrushed on her arm. It was that one that Pam Anderson has--the barbed wire. I forced my friend into it, THEN...I dared her to wear it to a cocktail party that evening...with a sleeveless shirt. I really had her snookered, cuz she did, but do you know that NOBODY said boo about it. I think that they didn't know WHAT to say, so avoidance of the issue was the default. LOL. And the party was very highbrow. LOL. I can corrupt...you DON'T want to hang around me. ;-)
Well, I've been known to fake a limp.
Auschwitz.
LOLOL
i recall vividly when xsteen had the talk in 7th grade. she had follow up questions for me, not so much on mechanics, but on things like cybersex, phone sex, and some song lyrics that she wasn't sure of, that she didn't feel comfortable asking the science teacher. there we were at the garden center, discussing this. it was wild, i kept thinking, holy crap i can't believe she is asking me this, but i didn't flinch, didn't blanch, i was matter of fact and informative. that's why she felt comfortable recently telling me about one of our friends son's who is receiving oral sex from a girl at her all girs HS.... we have done nothing with that bit of info except be mortified that we know about it and his parents don't.
LOL, Dutchgirl! Funny how your kids never gave you cause. I used to make similar threats...but would sometimes follow through even if they didn't do anything wrong. I just liked seeing their sweet gaping pieholes...that then turned to laughter and them running away. I'd just say "what?...what's wrong?"
LOL on that Will Farrel bit. My son and I were just howling about that one day before yesterday.
I can have an operatic voice (if I choose to use it) and that also includes operatic amplification...
My youngest thought he could avoid my maternal torture by expressing a preference for Led Zep and others of my generation.
Now imagine Miss Piggy's version of "Whole Lotta Love!
You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin',
I'm gonna send you back to schoolin',
Way down inside honey, you need it,
I'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you my love.
*Wanna Whole Lotta Love (X4)
You've been learnin', baby, I bean learnin',
All them good times, baby, baby, I've been yearnin',
Way, way down inside honey, you need it,
I'm gonna give you my love... I'm gonna give you my love.
* Chorus
You've been coolin', baby, I've been droolin',
All the good times I've been misusin',
Way, way down inside, I'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you every inch of my love,
Gonna give you my love.
* Chorus
Way down inside... woman... You need... love.
Shake for me, girl. I wanna be your backdoor man.
Keep it coolin', baby.
Followed by an explanation of how being a "back door man" can lead to things much less pleasant than anal warts...but that's okay, because the get it! They're mature! They're hip...
i cannot pull of a practical joke to save my life, i would love to fake out xshub like that, but he would never believe it, bc there is no way on earth i would.
i never knew how dirty that song was back in the day. honest to God.
wow. shudder.
if my kids heard the things you have done to your kids they would be on their knees thanking God for me! LOLOL!
TOO funny, Dutchgirl. I crank it up too, but now I'll add the braking. I can't wait to see their heads whip, along with faces of disgust. That sounds like a great combo. I can picture it now. Only one problem...my stations are worse than theirs. LOL.
"Fine," I said, "then it won't hurt If I do this" and smacked her a friendly one across the wingspan. (She was rummaging through the fridge at the time and made an irrisistable target.)
She had another one a few weeks before conceiving the Lillie-bug. It is supposedly the chinese character for purity. I ask her how she knows that it doesn't say something like "eat at moe's" since we are not oriental.
see you could have headed her off at the pass, by following Missy's example and wearing a temp home yourself. how the hell hep and cool can a tattoo be, if your MOTHER has one? the last time we were at Water Country USA in Williamsburg, VA, i realized that my daughters and i are the only females left in the USA sans body ink.
LOL. I thought that one was obvious, much like Nugent's "Wango Tango" which caused my mom to change the station.
Although at first I didn't know Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was about LSD.
I, too, hope everyone gets better soon.
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