Posted on 04/24/2007 4:17:45 AM PDT by Slip18
Tusday, April 24, 2005, BASTION
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.
Subbie Slip has her whip, handcuffs and legcuffs today.
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.
noun
pronunciation: Bas-‘chun
etymology: [Origin: 1590–1600; < MF < It bastione, equiv. to Upper It bastí(a) bastion, orig., fortified, built (c. It bastita, ptp. of bastire to build < Gmc; see BASTE1) + -one aug. suffix ]
1. Fortification. a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main work.
2. a fortified place.
3. anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition, etc.: a bastion of solitude; a bastion of democracy.
bastioned, adjective
Let's all be nice with this word. I know where it can go. I'm watching. But later on this morning.
If you need to know how to link, come to the Subbie’s desk in the front of the class.
Goodliest mornings to all y’alls!
morning, glad to be here in this bastion of learning : )
mernin!
Perhaps the great purge was like a bastion to reduce the internecine battles and restore some peace to the Freep.
Bastions are exemplars,
They make a salient point.
In the citadel of self-defense,
They're the big toes of the joint.
It was like watching a French mob rioting. No matter what the purpose, it's just wrong.
the WFTD classroom is a bastion of safety in the land of FReeperdom
Good morning, ms. slip, everyone.
She is a well-known hard leftist, but it is not bias that I’m complaining about. I don’t even care about the fact that she is disgusting to look at, having turned her abs into a giant jelly roll. (Hey, Rosie—lay off the high-calorie Coke. Tab is on the grocer’s shelf, too.) If there is a conservative on the show, she baits, on and on, with the latest moonbat theory. Isn’t there an anti-SOB rule on ABC?
I stab no one in the back, as a rule, but Rosie deserves it. While I was studying and learning facts, she was busy imitating a bison at lunch, grazing in the fields, looking for oat bins or stacks of hay. Please, “The View” and “The Ugly View” need obits. And I mean now!
"I'd don'ts feels no ways tired..."
Well done.
and may it stay ever so!
look at you using two for one! and yes, i agree, i think that was the intent. it was the pinprick [okay, maybe it was a blow-hole, actually] to release some of the pent up tension that has been building here the past few months.
that woman is a parody! i heard that phony black accent again yesterday. how odd is she????
I don’t need to show you any steenking bastions!
she’s married to a bastion of perversion.
She panders like her husband, but without the charm. I’m half suprised she didn’t show up to that conference dressed as Aunt Jamima....
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