Word for the Day, Friday February 17, 2006

Fevruary 17, 2006 | Argh

[Argh]

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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 four "Words for the Day".

1. abaddon [pronounced A-bad-en, noun, from Hebrew abhaddon meaning destruction]
a place of destruction: an underworld abode of lost souls: HELL (see Revelation 9:11 where it referred to "the angel of the bottomless pit" according to Webster’s)

2. abattoir [pronounced roughly A-ba-twar, noun, from French abattre, to slaughter]
slaughterhouse

3.zwischenspiel [pronounced TSFISH-en-shpeel, noun, from Old high German]
a musical interlude: intermezzo

4. zounds [often pronounced zownds but should be pronounced z(w)aun(d)s or z(w)oon(d)s, interjection, a euphemism for God’s wounds]
-this word is used as a mild oath

Example sentence:
Another time.

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using one or more of the Words for the Day in one or more sentences.
The sentences must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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Good Morning, Class. Welcome to School!

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
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid

No pushing at the door please!

[Argh]

We've got a huge windstorm here and could lose power anytime so you get an early post whether you like it or not.

[Argh]

I'd say Happy Friday but it's more like Windsday up here.

[Argh]

Phew! Done.

[Darkwolf377]

David Gregory's personal abaddon is his dressing room without hair products and a television set showing only FOX News.

[Darkwolf377]

"Zounds!" Katie Holmes exclaimed, "I escaped the career abattoir that would have been mine as Mrs. Tom Cruise's!"

[Darkwolf377]

Cruise's = Cruise

[Darkwolf377]

The Vice President enjoyed the zwischenspiel from the press room as the DNC servants within whined for yet another day about Mr. Cheney's choice of media.

[MoochPooch]

Zounds, I hope your windstorm doesn't create either an abattoir or an abaddon in your neck of the woods, as I type merrily as in a sort of zwischenspiel during balmier climes.

[Keith in Iowa]

Zounds be upon Iran, as the leaders of their abattoir plot to turn Israel into abaddon while the UN sits by with its collective head up its behind listening to a zwischenspiel.

[Jack Deth]

Hi, Arghie:

Great choice of words!

Zounds! Forsooth and Alack!
The White House Press Corps Kindergarten
Has recently and humiliatingly exposed a knack
Of screaming about Destruction and Abaddon
With their Targeting focused on the Veep

With Half Assed WAGS, innuendo and Total B.S.
The Media's hoping for an abattoir's stinking mess
To stick and split Red states decisively
While exposing themselves as whiny little Bitch Ass Creeps

Whittington's heart attack was a zwischenspiel
For the MoonBats to froth more merrily at the mouth
As those soon to be divided said "What's the big deal?"
Verily, the LSM's ratings continue to plummet South


Jack Deth~ 02/17/06.

[tioga]

Hey, the UN is busy.......they are trying to get us to close Guantanamo.....

[tioga]

Zounds! I just realized that the FLOTUS must now share the same abaddon as the VP. Her accident was many years ago, but a friend of hers died as a result. Thank God, Whittington is recovering. Prayers offered up for all of those involved for healing.

[tioga]

I just saw her in First Daughter. She seemed so young and innocent. Now she is just gossip column fodder.

[tioga]

David Gregory - without hair products stuck watching Fox.......gosh I love that imagery. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!

[tioga]

Gees, ti. Alone in the classroom and talking to yourself again. rme

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ugh.

Will Abbandona screen fer a few minutes to get coffee.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Zwischenspiel !!!

(Robt ushers in a mild oath... I can't spell zounds, witch is pronounced like it's misspelled.)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Zounds like da pair o' u turned in amazing homework.

[tioga]

Cat Fight!! Mother and daughter go at it in a Wal-mart.......mom, 34 and daughter is 20.

[NicknamedBob]

Good Morning!

The veep’s aim clearly is deadly,
In finding its way to the heart,
Of a lawyer. Now, some may condemn,
But most of us say, it’s a start.

It was just target practice, I’m certain,
‘Cause the ammo would need to upscale.
If the press had been, um, “invited,”
(They have really been after his tail!)

So he would have been steady in purpose,
And he’d not sympathize with their plights,
It would seem like a chore, at an abattoir,
If reporters had been in his sights.

NicknamedBob . . . . February 17, 2006