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WORD FOR THE DAY, JANUARY 30, 2007, TUESDAY, FULMINATE
Merriam-Webster | Slip 18

Posted on 01/30/2007 4:23:17 AM PST by Slip18

January 30, 2007, Tuesday, FULMINATE

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. Practice makes perfect.....post on....


Subbie Slip has her whip, handcuffs and legcuffs today. Tomorrow I’m bringing in chains, so 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.

FULMINATE

Pronunciation: ful-mi-‘nate
Function: Verb
Inflected Form(s): -nat·ed; -nat·ing

Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin fulminatus, past participle of fulminare, from Latin, to strike (of lightning), from fulmin-, fulmen lightning; akin to Latin flagrare to burn.

transitive verb:

1: To utter or send out with denunciation (fulminate a decree)

intransitive verb:

1: To send forth censures or invectives - ful·mi·na·tion

Noun

Etymology: fulminic acid, from Latin fulmin-, fulmen

1: An often explosive salt (as mercury fulminate) containing the group -CNO

*Cyber fulminates that poor sweet little Simba every morning.*


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To: theDentist; LC HOGHEAD; Slip18; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
-- Lawrence M. Friedman, The Horizontal Society

WhydoesatexasgirllikeherpositioninTheHorizontalSociety?
101 posted on 01/30/2007 2:19:12 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Slip18

I saw today's WFTD used in an interesting way in a novel by a British author awhile back-one of the characters went into "a fulminating rage" when confronted with some unpleasant truths. I don't remember the name of the novel or the author, but that was the only time I ever saw that word used that way...


102 posted on 01/30/2007 2:20:23 PM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Texan5

Now, now.

I'm sure "some" groceries don't mind being outed in public... Your neighbors pack away the beef all the time, as I'm sure you're aware they're not wearing.

Not that there's anythong wrong with that, of course.


103 posted on 01/30/2007 2:21:16 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

I'd never heard of "The Horizontal Society" before-is it anything like "The Flat Earth Society" or something?


104 posted on 01/30/2007 2:22:07 PM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

"pack away the beef"

My next door neighbor and blondie the dyke don't-I don't know what the most polite euphemism for what they do would be, but it doesn't have anything to do with beef or porking...


105 posted on 01/30/2007 2:25:39 PM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Texan5

Dang, you're good! Are you a robot? Come on! LOL!

I'm afraid to look at the price of beef.

We have lots of corn here, just in case of the ethanol problem.


106 posted on 01/30/2007 2:27:45 PM PST by Slip18
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Bwaaaahaaaa-LMAO! I just had a mental picture of the aforementioned lesbian neighbors standing beside their tacky lawn ornaments, dressed in plastic grocery sacks...


107 posted on 01/30/2007 2:28:34 PM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE; Slip18

Ms. slip and I were having a huge discussion of $50.00 words. Ms. slip wanted to know who had the $50.00,and if she was to get it. I mentioned your name without pinging you, sorry.




So Robert A. Cook P.E. do you have the $50.00??


108 posted on 01/30/2007 2:29:03 PM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar, cause I can.... I do poetry, too!-The Dragonflies'Lair)
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To: Texan5; theDentist; Xenalyte; Slip18; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; xsmommy; Argh
I'd never heard of "The Horizontal Society" before-is it anything like "The Flat Earth Society" or something?


Only the dentist knows Whyisatexasgirlnotamemberoftheflatearthsociety.

(Argh points out there are two reasons why Xsex isn't qualified either.)

Xena strokes sword, wonders how to flatten Robt if he doesn't lay off Whyisa....
109 posted on 01/30/2007 2:30:53 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Slip18

We have plenty of corn here, too-cornfields all around just south of SA. The strange thing is that the only cuts of meat that seem to be increasing in price are the better steak cuts like ribeyes and T-bones-very little or no increase in the ground beef or roast cuts.


110 posted on 01/30/2007 2:31:45 PM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Soaring Feather; Robert A. Cook, PE; Slip18

I was wondering who finally came up with the $50.00, as well. I don't have $50.00 after that trip to the commissary, either...


111 posted on 01/30/2007 2:34:38 PM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Texan5; bentfeather; Slip18

(Robt looks innocent. In o' dollar too.)


112 posted on 01/30/2007 2:35:46 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Slip18; Soaring Feather; Robert A. Cook, PE

It is time for me to go finish cooking dinner-there is a program on History Channel International that is about castles on at 7, and I want to be all done with dinner and dishes when it comes on so I won't miss anything-back later...


113 posted on 01/30/2007 3:00:01 PM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Texan5

Oh thanks for the ping. I will turn it on.


114 posted on 01/30/2007 3:01:43 PM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar, cause I can.... I do poetry, too!-The Dragonflies'Lair)
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To: Texan5
Castles, eh?

Well, Have a nice knight, turn over a new page, and don't be a rookie, and we'll siege you later.
115 posted on 01/30/2007 3:24:45 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Texan5

The horizontal society cultivates celebrities, worshiped but not deferred to, and ''the life style of the rich and famous is the opium of the masses.'' Class rage melts away because ''very rich people are celebrities, and the public is in awe of celebrities.'' The horizontal society is a society of entertainment and at the same time a society of surveillance, where privacy is both valued and routinely invaded.

The horizontal society is global, but the United States is its avant-garde. The ideal of the autonomous individual spawned a rights revolution that continues. Individualism, curiously, leads to the affirmation of group identities, which differ from primordial bonds (of blood, color, ancestral religion) because to greater or lesser degrees people choose them -- choose how Catholic to be, or how Mexican-American, or how feminist, or how conservative. Identity is diffuse, capable of being molded and remolded. Instead of the tight affiliations of traditional society, we get loose, overlapping connections -- a pride of subnations.''


116 posted on 01/30/2007 3:31:34 PM PST by LC HOGHEAD (Hillary can’t even stand up to a cheating husband, how canshe contend with N. Korea & Iran???)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Get over my knee, Buster!


117 posted on 01/30/2007 3:53:34 PM PST by Slip18
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To: Texan5

Oh, I'm glad I wrote this word. Cyber has been saying it to me for the past week. I kept forgetting it. It's not used very often.


118 posted on 01/30/2007 3:55:06 PM PST by Slip18
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

How many spankings do you need? Just curious.


119 posted on 01/30/2007 3:56:11 PM PST by Slip18
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To: Texan5

OMG. Keep those binoculars on. We have to know about your neighbors. It's important in here. LOL, but true.


120 posted on 01/30/2007 3:57:52 PM PST by Slip18
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