Posted on 01/22/2009 4:31:25 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".
pandiculation \pan-dik-yuh-LEY-shuhn\, noun
An instinctive stretching, as on awakening or while yawning
Example sentence:
"Pandiculate for Health! Grow Tall! Get Well! Be Young!" Exuberant ads like this, running in health-fad magazines since 1914, have proclaimed the virtues of a spine-stretching device called the "Pandiculator."
-- Time, 1942-04-12
Etymology:
By 1611, from French pandiculation from Latin pandiculari "to stretch oneself" and French suffix -ion.
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!
There’s drunk, and then there’s ugly drunk. Guess which one she is.
i missed seeing the F me porn shoes she was supposedly wearing, someone on the thread commented on them.
Reich and Rangel on white, male construction workers.
I wonder how many white, male construction workers voted democrat because the union said so. How's the view from under the bus?
your guys know about this, trav?
Can’t view the youtube at work. i doubt too many of the union guys here know about it. About 40% of them are libs, the remainder pretty staunch conservatives. The office is about 25% libs, 25% don’t care, and the remainder republican or conservative. None follow politics as closely as I do.
Wow. The evil midget strikes again. A+ for you.
After a long evening’s toil I drove home and settled into bed... the office mates here were aware I was working late and thus would be in later than usual. So when my alarms rang this morning I was immediately set into a bitter mood, and no sooner had pandiculation set in when the phone started ringing. Isn’t it Friday yet????
Nicole Wallace revived the Perky One’s career.
We’re almost there. Here’s an A to cheer you up. :-)
Simply outstanding!
LOL....you bad boy you!
Simply outstanding.
Some poem. Doesn’t even rhyme.
Pennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddiiiiiiicculatioonnnnnnnn, oh that felt good.
xsteen loved it, said it was SOOOO UD studentish to do something like that.i have sent links to my nieces and nephew and others who can appreciate it.
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