Word For The Day, Monday, November 6, 2006 - inveterate

dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | November 6, 2006 | secret garden

[secret garden]

Excellent! A+

[secret garden]

But it is helping to invigorate the base. The Republican base. A for you. I'm off to the orthodontist, kiddos! Back soon!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I like your imagination...

[NicknamedBob]

We long-suffering Marylanders are eagerly anticipating the opportunity to slip a little Steele in betwixt the anti-American rock-ribs in Congress.

[NicknamedBob]

"I like your imagination..."

"It entertains me constantly." -- Ebeneezer Scrooge

[NicknamedBob]

Sorry, I misquoted. Here's the original ...

"It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly." -- Ebeneezer Scrooge

... but my imagination does entertain me. Constantly.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I'm off to the orthodontist, kiddos! Back soon!
er, uhm. yes. Go do that.

(Robt pages the dentist, wondering what new holes and sensations he will find (and create!) whilst exploring secret's garden(s).....

[Robert A Cook PE]

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[Knitting A Conundrum]

Quoting Scrooge, eh?

Sounds like a dangerous ploy to me...

[RightWhale]

Putting the Word of the Day in the Title of the thread should be inveterate.

[ThomasThomas]

I had a neighbor who rarely went out in public that was very adamant that hanging upside down helped is back, I guess that makes him a introverted inveterate inverted vibrate.

[NicknamedBob]

"Quoting Scrooge, eh? Sounds like a dangerous ploy to me..."

You'd prefer that I quote Tiny Tim? *Clears throat*

[Gabz]

I'm pulling for you folks, I really am.

Cardin was still in the state legislature when I was in radio on the Shore.......man I hated having to deal with him. He was always pleasant to me, but trying to get a straight answer to a simple question was impossible with him.

From Pocomoke to Ocean City on Friday I did not see 1 single solitary sign for Cardin. Lots and lots for Steele and Ehrlich, but none for Cardin and only 1 for O'Malley.

[Gabz]

"It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly." -- Ebeneezer Scrooge

Advice the nanny-statists should take to heart..........

[Knitting A Conundrum]

God bless us, one and all....

[NicknamedBob]

He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

It was old enough now, and dreary enough, for nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices. The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands.

The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold.

"... the Genius of the Weather" -- I like the sound of that! I wonder if I could get a job somewhere ...

[secret garden]

I always check the news here before the TV. A for you!

[secret garden]

Bravo! A++!

[secret garden]

He is known, by others in this area, as Saint Peyton. A for you!

[secret garden]

Now you've got me jonesing for the Duke's version of The Nutcracker. A for you!