Word For The Day, Tuesday, December 6, 2005, VACUITY

Merriam-Webster | 12/06/05 | Slip 18

[Slip18]

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 Merriam Webster.com

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 again today. Beware !

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.

VACUITY

Pronunciation: va-'kyü-&-tE, v&-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural –ties
Etymology: Latin vacuitas, from vacuus empty

1 : an empty space
2 : the state, fact, or quality of being vacuous
3 : something (as an idea) that is vacuous or inane

[Fierce Allegiance]

Oh, ok. (duh me!)

[Slip18]

Good morning, SG!

You know I grade on a curve. Everyone gets an A++++, except Arghie. He has to give me something to grade. LOL!

So you get an A++++ just for using the WFTD.

[Slip18]

Oh, I love alliterations with poetry. I, for one, have loved Super Mario for years. I want to get those apples off the trees. I, unfortunately, do not get to play those games any longer. My nephews and nieces have grown up into newer and better things.

A++++ for you, and thanks for the memories.

[Slip18]

Ohhhhhhh. Kind of like "phone home."

[Texan5]

Combat driving is a good description of the 30 mile commute to the city where most of us who live out here work. Hubby leaves at 6 am to be to work at 7, gets off at 4:30 pm and gets home between 5:30 and 6 because the evening rush hour is worse than morning. Our neighbor 3 houses up the road works way on the other side of the city from here, and leaves by 5 am to get there. I will only bid jobs outside the city-I only go there when I need to go to the commissary and BX or if there is something I need that can't be found in Kerrville.

[Slip18]

What's a "turn paper"?

[Slip18]

I love penguins. Especially the ones with the hats on.

[martin_fierro]

[Gabz]

LOL - that would be a good analogy.

[Slip18]

I cannot believe your Post No. 3 on that thread. You need a good whooping.

[Slip18]

I did, too. It shows up on my screen right now. I'm not the horrible luddite that I used to be. Still a luddite, but not as bad . . .

[Slip18]

ROTFLMAO! Where do you find these things, Marteen?

[Slip18]

I don't know how you and your hubby do it. I would be a raving lunatic. And you always have dinner for the hubs. You are a super woman!

[Fierce Allegiance]

I don't know how you and your hubby do it.

I don't want to know, either!

[Fierce Allegiance]

Check out the original Turn Page Paper thread here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127440/posts

Bwahahaha, I had post #6.

[NicknamedBob]

Good Morning!

Vacuity

When I was young, the vacuum tube,
Performed a magic task.
To amplify ephemeral,
Seemed quite a lot to ask.

These days, we find the fruit that has,
Sprung from the fleeting phrase,
Memorialised as history,
Avalanching the earlier days.

Vacuities thus propagate,
And take on substance-lite,
Instead of dissipating,
In wisps of whispered night.

Our founding fathers' words are now,
Just scraps of jotted notes,
A flotsam floating in a sea,
Of parsed but vacuous bloats.

How shall we cage Pandora?
The beast she has set free?
Vacuities surround us now,
Corraling liberty.

What is it that constrains us,
The fate that limits Man?
Although we’ve mastered many things,
We find that Nothing can.

NicknamedBob . . . . . December 6, 2005

[NeoCaveman]

May Allah give them the 72 virgins.I wonder what one does with 72 virgins while enduring the torments of the fires of hell?

[xsmommy]

how boring ; )

[xsmommy]

ahem. cyber, may i have a word with you....

[Fierce Allegiance]

Got something better?