Posted on 08/01/2005 9:36:30 AM PDT by Slip18
Monday, August 1, 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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of 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....
Subbie Slip has her whip, handcuffs and legcuffs today.
The rest of the stuff is locked up in my drawer. I’m just letting all the new students know that we behave as if we were ladies and gentlemen in here. Those two words “as if” can get you an A if you make the subbie laugh.
Noun
Pronunciation: Charn/el
Etymology: I don’t know. I can’t read the danged thing.
1) (obs) Cemetary
(2) (a)“Charnal House” A building, chamber or other area in which bodies and bones are deposited. (b) A mortuary chapel.
Are you the common denominator for the two groups getting together?
My wife bought it while I was away last week. She has started reading it, but hasn't gotten very far. I might take it away from her if she doesn't pick up the pace!
I guess so.
Detales on the details of de tails of this issue later, since I don't remember the details of de tale.
Essentially, Johnny Carson, in the midst of Jimmy Carter's gas crisis and the hundreds of "gas lines" stories being published, mentioned that there was a toilet paper crisis (falling supply and higher demand): Which, in at least one area of the country, was true.
But everybody in the country heard it, and rushed to get toilet paper before the crisis spread.
That rush, itself, CAUSED the crisis, which was then reported, and those reports made it worse. Several days of confusion and "waves" of secondary shortages continued.
(No internet to tell everybody the story was false in those days! ....
Never heard that story before, Cook. What a hoot. Carter should have used the good old Sears Catalogue or corn husks. LOL!
I've started doing volunteer work at a library, and just got home, so I have an excuse for being late:
Dirge
Today, watch them build
the charnel house of tomorrow,
brick by brick,
born in the artificially sterile womb
of those who say no to the future,
weaving a shroud to wrap the next day's morning in,
white with the salty tears
of the unborn railing in the night,
turned away from today
as those caught up in the dream of pleasure over principle
extinguish the torch of tomorrow's home
in the well of today's excess.
See the streets empty of young children -
who will be left to pass down the sight
Of Oddysseus sailing the wine dark seas of Homer,
lost in the dreamy past,
and the songs of Petrarch,
Shakespeare's sound and fury,
lost, like poor Ophelia
in a stream filled with broken hope?
Like the last survivor
who mourned over the treasures of his people no more,
buried under a hill to become dragon horde
when each and every one was forgotten,
and the last tattered copy
of Western Civ crumbles into dust,
and the promise, betrayed,
that Caesar and soldier,
engineer and lover,
poet and builder,
and sinner and saint
fought so hard to create,
who will be left to mourn its passing?
A++++ for you!
You're volunteering at a library? What a wonderful thing to do. And with all your knowledge, you are the person perfectly fit to help.
Tomorrow's WFTD is on Page 12. Today's was on Page 8. I just love Koontz' verbiage.
Jack.
I hope Knitting puts a needle in your thigh for that one, Cook!
I was wrong about the page numbers. Today's WFTD was on Page 13 or 14 (I've already forgotten), and tomorrow's is on Page 24.
I'm finally home-what a day-
The Plame game continues on
As does the Roberts flap
The 'rat party is drowning
In their own outrageous crap
Screaming Howard keeps ranting
About his visions of hell
And giving what's left of his party
A decidedly charnal smell
The more they howl and wring their hands
The more they look like fools-
Juvenile playground bullies
Who delight in breaking rules
I've got to go and get catfish with lemon pepper and fresh basil ready to bake-back later...
Harry Reid came out of his home at the charnal house to denounce the President's appointment of John Bolton as absolutely deadening to collegiality.
nice.
For a research junkie like me, it's fun to learn about the real level of resource available!
I have many sharp and pointy lace needles, made of steel. Beware! Easy for me to play porcupine...
I've got an estimate to do north of here someplace I've never been before-and the directions I was given suck, so I'd better leave now so I can get lost at my leisure-I'll come to class when I get back...
A++++ for you!
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