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Word For The Day, Thursday, May 26, 2005
dictionaries ad nauseum | May 26, 2005 | secret garden2

Posted on 05/26/2005 5:30:40 AM PDT by secret garden2

Word For The Day, Thursday, May 26, 2005



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".

[artifice \AR-tuh-fis\, noun: 1. Cleverness or skill; ingenuity; inventiveness. 2. An ingenious or artful device or expedient. 3. An artful trick or stratagem. 4. Trickery; craftiness; insincere or deceptive behavior.]

[Built by design and artifice, it fell apart in confusion and chaos. --John Gray, [1]False Dawn

This theatricality is necessary to signal Prospero's farewell to magic, and indeed the play debates that very contrast between artifice and reality, illusion and truth. --Amy Rosenthal, "An insubstantial pageant," [2]New Statesman, February 3, 2003

The smoke had cleared enough for him to see bayonets flash in the distance, behind the wall, what looked like thousands of them, the wall itself appearing to rise out of the smoke as if produced by the artifice of some magician. --Kathleen Cambor, [3]In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species. --Frans De Waal, [4]The Ape and the Sushi Master

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Etymology: [Artifice comes from artificium, from artifex, artific-, "artificer, craftsman," from Latin ars, art-, "art" + facere, "to make." It is related to artificial. ]

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....


Comment Section:

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with WFTD.

[Watching McPain engage in obligatory artifice on this morning's Fox & Friends was illuminating. It really is all about him and his movie.]

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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

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!


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To: Miss Behave

Yes, you do. LOL.


121 posted on 05/26/2005 1:49:58 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: Texan5; secret garden2; Robert A. Cook, PE
"Robert spends entirely too much time in that janitor's closet you know..."

Good thing I know where the peep hole is.

122 posted on 05/26/2005 1:53:10 PM PDT by Miss Behave (Do androids dream of electric sheep?)
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To: patton

My hubby is at work-my sister-in-law's hubby went fishing, but he said the bass weren't biting-I think he was probably using the wrong bait-the bass that live in that pool most of the time can get to really deep water any time they want to by just swimming out of the cove into the main lake, but the owner of that marina feeds them twice a day to keep them coming back every day. They can usually be caught with just plastic worms, but don't seem to like flies, spinners and other fancy schmancy lures like that-I don't have any idea what he was using. Shrimp salad is easier to do anyway-everything is ready and just has to be put together at dinnertime. I'll go down the road to the marina early one morning over this holiday weekend with my plastic worms and catch some stripers to cook-the ones that hang out there bite best before 7 or 8 am for some reason...


123 posted on 05/26/2005 1:56:42 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Miss Behave

He thinks no one is watching even though he should know better by now.


124 posted on 05/26/2005 1:59:57 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Texan5

Funny thing is, I don't know how to fish. LOL.


125 posted on 05/26/2005 2:01:49 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: Texan5

shrimp salad sounds good to me.


126 posted on 05/26/2005 2:07:56 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: patton

I'm not a fishing fanatic or a master fisherman-I just like to eat fish and can't see buying it at the grocery store when I live on a lake filled with fish. I only use simple tackle, bait and my indispensible plastic worms...


127 posted on 05/26/2005 2:20:43 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: xsmommy

Any salad - it is getting hot. Summer-food time.


128 posted on 05/26/2005 2:22:23 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: Texan5

Although, you REALLY wouldn't want to eat a fish you cought in the Potomac, anyway...


129 posted on 05/26/2005 2:23:38 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: TheGrimReaper; secret garden2; xsmommy; Gabz; VRWCmember; Texan5
A doctor examined a woman, took the husband aside, and said, "I don't like the looks of your wife at all." "Me neither doc," said the husband. "But she's a great cook and really good with the kids."

... and she's pretty good in the sack anyway.

130 posted on 05/26/2005 2:25:58 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: xsmommy

It sounded great to me since it is raining off and on and is too cool at just 70 to turn on the A/C without freezing my ass off AND wasting energy-but it is very humid, so I don't want to heat up the kitchen cooking a big dinner, so my SIL and I decided to do shrimp salad-I know my hubby will be happy when he gets home-he can eat his weight in shrimp salad-hope he leaves some for the rest of us.


131 posted on 05/26/2005 2:26:01 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: patton

"in the Potomac"

Is it that bad? If so, that is a shame.


132 posted on 05/26/2005 2:32:54 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: patton

well at least it has been semi-hot for a HALF DAY so far!


133 posted on 05/26/2005 2:33:30 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember

Shame on you...


134 posted on 05/26/2005 2:33:55 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Texan5; Gabz; patton

i just got a phone call from jerry kilgore's campaign for governor. i said he could email me and send me a bumper sticker but that i was not feeling very charitable towards anyone in politics since the debacle in the Senate this week, so i was not going to give dime one. he said he understood perfectly. i am guessing i wasn't the first one he heard that from.


135 posted on 05/26/2005 2:35:17 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Texan5
If you go up north of DC by Great Falls, no problem at all.

Down by National Airport, I would use more caution (one a month).

South of the Anacostia, forget it. For about 100 miles downstream.

Then it is ok again.

136 posted on 05/26/2005 2:36:22 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: xsmommy

I'll give you a bumpersticker sans contribution, as long as I get to apply it to your bumper myself


137 posted on 05/26/2005 2:37:00 PM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: xsmommy
Yep - that was a surprise, actually. It is still supposed to be raining.

Good answer on the senate thing.

138 posted on 05/26/2005 2:38:08 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: patton

i was watching Cspan looking for the cloture vote on Bolton and caught Ted STevens frenchkissing Sheets Byrd. i almost vomited.


139 posted on 05/26/2005 2:39:22 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

When the phone calls start here I'm going to do the same thing-these politicians need to realize they have to ingest some testicular growth hormones or they're not getting money any more from people whose interests they were elected to see to.


140 posted on 05/26/2005 2:39:44 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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