Posted on 03/09/2006 6:20:24 AM PST by secret garden
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".
Hobson's choice \HOB-suhnz-CHOIS\, noun:
A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing.
Example sentence:
Fagan's defense revolves around his insistence that he faced a Hobson's choice and had to act.
-- Laura Parker, "Discovery of daughters never followed by reunion," USA Today, May 11, 1999
Etymology: The origin of the term Hobson's choice is said to be in the name of one Thomas Hobson (ca. 1544-1631), at Cambridge, England, who kept a livery stable and required every customer to take either the horse nearest the stable door or none at all.
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....
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!
Pretty soon the Mullahs of Iran and that little punk, I'mDeadInAJar, will be faced with the Hobson's Choice of having to back up their fiery rhetoric with real action or having to back down and lose their tenuous grip on power. I presume that, when forced to choose between death and dishonor, these low-lifes will do what cowards and bullies have done since Cain slew Abel, and choose dishonor.
I baked this just for you.
I recall Rodney Dangerfield's great line about jogging. He was overweight and went to some fancy doctor on Park Avenue in New York. The doctor told him to jog ten miles a day. Rodney said,
"I called him a week later and asked, 'What do I do now? I'm in Philadelphia.'"
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I had to take an admissions test for a particular public HS I wanted to attend. I passed the test with flying colors - but too many from my district were already enrolled and so I couldn't get a variance to get in.
I don't see the issue with admissions tests.........but then I'm not a public school teacher in a failing HS in Delaware that is afraid to admit the charter schools, which are not controled by the State Education Association, are far superior.
Funny how that works: Start a good school, run a GOOD school with ordinary logic and common sense, one that that is actually HARD to get into and HARD to stay in and HARD to finish, and applications go through the roof!
Run poor and mediocre schools, easy to enter, even easier to get through without learning anything or applying oneself, and you find people ignore them in droves.
no wonder they are terrified of vouchers.
And add in those that can't get into the good one and the ones who run the poor and mediocre ones want to bring the good ones down to their level, instead of striving to go UP.
No such thing as common sense.
Precisely.
What a cutie!!!!!!!!
Where the heck have you been ??????? I have missed seeing you in class.
isn't she adorable!! and i think she must be sleeping IN on her bday! Hope she got bfast in bed!
Now you don't only not want to know how many of them it takes to screw in a light bulb, but please don't ask where....
I like the security guys and their "umbrellas."
you just know how unattractive a group that could possibly be....
eeeewwww... what sort of liquid are they afraid of????
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