Posted on 09/01/2006 12:52:32 AM PDT by Argh
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of the "Word for the Day".
agelast [pronounced ADJ-uh-last, noun, from Greek agelastos not laughing]
one who never laughs
Example sentence:
Another time.
Rules: Everyone should leave a post using the Word for the Day in one or more sentences.
The sentence(s) should, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
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!
Thanks.
And we are staying put now. In fact, it's the perfect kind of day for an afternoon siesta - I think I may just take one.
Yes.
Of course not.
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Home early, and a customer paid me almost on time, yippee! I've got a bid to do, but I can still freep while I do that.
The HEB stores here do not carry a good variety of brands per item-they don't even have the Southbeach Diet chicken wraps-I have to go to the commissary if I want them. And they only carry Quaker and their own store brand of instant oatmeal, wheareas the commissary has three national brands, including Quaker. Speaking of that, I'm going to go put one of those chicken wrap lunch kits together for lunch-be right back...
I was brought up to believe that abortion was murder, but I never really thought about it, either until I eloped with a spineless rich boy and became pregnant just as I began my first year of college. One of my aunts, seeing what a disaster the marriage was offered to accompany me to Mexico to "take care of things"-ie, get a legal abortion, and it would be a secret between she and I-I'd just tell everyone I'd miscarried. I thought about it for a little while-it was the first time I'd actually thought about abortion-but then I had an epiphany of sorts that brought home to me that my pregnancy was not an unfortunate inconvenience, but a brand new unborn human who had just as much right to live as I did. I've been totally pro-life ever since.
the girls opted for Olive Garden so we went and as luck would have it there were TWO BUSLOADS from the US NAVAL ACADEMY there. as xsteen would say.....ooohhhh babies! they weren't even in uniform, just had on Naval Acad sweat suits, but there were quite a few choice boys there! i gave her the optimal seat so she could have a better view [we did not ASK to be seated on that side of the restaurant but FORTUITOUSLY were seated there : )]
How cool-I hope xsteen enjoyed the eye candy!
I have to say that the most tolerable of these chicken wraps are the turkey and cheese ones-that is what I'm having now, with a peach and ice tea.
Probably when I turned 18. I know I was prolife the first time I was allowed to vote. Before that, as a clueless teenager, I bought into the rape or incest argument.
i think they are really pretty decent for a lowcarb lunch option and easy enough to take to the ofc.
abortion was truly not a factor in my life growing up. i would say that my parents were prolife but it was not legal for most of my youth, i must have been late college when roe v. wade became law, so it wasn't anything we ever talked about. since i was a liberal in college and law school, i bought into that mentality, but again it wasn't anything i was confronted with. After i had become prolife [with a vengeance] i remember being on a business trip with my female boss and it was during the Bork hearings, which xshub was involved in, and she and i were discussing it and she said to me "don't you recall when you were in college and terrified that you would have to go to Canada for an abortion?" and i said 'Um, no. i was not terrified of that at all."
Was she kidding? You have to wait several months for anything healthcare-related in Canada! That kind of defeated her purpose, didn't it?
oh i am sure she wasn't kidding and i didn't even think it through that far to make that point, i was just astounded that she was acting like gee remember when we were all screwing our brains out in college and worried about needing an abortion. it was NOT my experience and i just thought it was inappropriate to even discuss it on those terms.
That is funny-I've always noticed that people like that always ASSume that the person they are talking to has the same opinions and morals (or lack of) that they do-I call it liberal arrogance...
They are the best low carb lunch I've found that is easy to carry to work, and made edible without any fuss.
that is SOOOO true of liberals, they will always assume you are of the same ilk. whereas, as conservatives, we pretty much assume, unless we know otherwise, that our views are NOT shared!
Did Canada have socialized medicine back then? If they did, SG is right-by the time your "turn" came, you'd already be a mom...
They've had it for over 25 years as far as I know. Arghy, how long have y'all had socialized medicine?
I have wondered how it affected someone later in life after they had a child.
i never knew anyone that had one either, til i started in my current job (granted it was 20 years ago!) the woman, an atty also, freely discussed her MULTIPLE abortions. honestly, it is as if she was using abortion as birth control, which unfortunately, is how many consider it. she ended up with one child and wasn't even still married to the father when i met her. she wasn't in the job that long and who knows how many more men [and abortions] she may have had since. even 20 years ago she was a living breathing example of rode hard and put up wet.
I only personally knew one woman who had two abortions-another social worker I worked with. She was a couple of months pregnant with the first baby, and then about4 or 5 months with the second. She shamelessly told all the women at work how painful the later abortion was for her-she even admitted that the baby was "killed". I did ask her if she wondered how painful it was for the baby, and she just stared at me as if she'd never considered such a thing. She married the father of both babies the following year in a huge wedding, and last I heard, they had three kids they decided to let live and be born.
One of my daughters friends in college was having a secret affair with a married, older man, and he talked her into an abortion when she became pregnant, even though she was Catholic. When she repented what she did and went to make confession, the priest she went to refused to give her absolution. She went home and took all of the prescription pain pills her mother had for a broken arm, washed them down with a fifth of gin, and fortunately was found still alive by her parents, and recovered. She spent many months in counseling after that-my daughter told me she never forgave herself for what she did.
And it all gets blamed on the woman, although she didn't get pregnant all by herself did she...
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