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Word For The Day, Thursday, January 22, 2009 - pandiculation
dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | 22 Janiary 2009 | secret garden

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 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

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!


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To: VRWCmember
hillary as an angry GORGON was hilarious, as was this part:

True to the prophesy of the Doritos, wily Crustius had a secret trick up his toga. From his rock-strewn shipwreck he summoned Palina, huntress of Wasilla, Whose fertile loins had many odd-named children bore, Bristol and Trig, Dakota and Algebra, Calculus and Physed, And yet she retained the visage and figure of a goddess.

101 posted on 01/22/2009 1:08:34 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: dixie sass

Don’t you feel all hale and hearty now?


102 posted on 01/22/2009 1:09:33 PM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: SoothingDave

i don’t care for rhyming pomes. they make me itch. this was an EPIC! ; )


103 posted on 01/22/2009 1:09:44 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember
brokeback COWBOYS interested in Ray Lewis, who [years ago] killed someone in a bar in Baltimore, but was acquitted.
104 posted on 01/22/2009 1:13:28 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; xsmommy

I read it out loud as well........loved it.

Hildusa and Obamacles.......LOL


105 posted on 01/22/2009 1:19:03 PM PST by tioga
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To: xsmommy

Yea, thou speaketh true.


106 posted on 01/22/2009 1:21:29 PM PST by dixie sass
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To: xsmommy

The epic poem
Can be a bit too wordy
Attention span small


107 posted on 01/22/2009 1:22:16 PM PST by SoothingDave
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To: secret garden

I don’t know about hale and hearty, but do feel more limber!


108 posted on 01/22/2009 1:23:31 PM PST by dixie sass
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To: SoothingDave
seek thee

medication

for thine ADD

lest thou miss the amazing talent.

109 posted on 01/22/2009 1:25:08 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: dixie sass

i LOVE parodies like that, it was amazingly clever.


110 posted on 01/22/2009 1:26:55 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: tioga

I thought the hand signs with the wand were a nice touch.


111 posted on 01/22/2009 1:28:15 PM PST by CholeraJoe ("They taped over your mouth, Scribbled out the truth with their lies. You little spies!")
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To: dixie sass; IowaHawk

i recall a piece Iowahawk did shortly after the terrorist carbombings at the airport in London 2 summers ago [will be three this year]> it was pee in your pants funny. i wish i could find it again, but i don’t know if his archives go back that far or if i just don’t know how to negotiate them.


112 posted on 01/22/2009 1:29:18 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: CholeraJoe

as i predicted, xsteen’s response to my email with the pic was “WOWWWW...scary!” ; )


113 posted on 01/22/2009 1:30:21 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Iowahawk RULES! Damn, I wish I could right 25% as well as that. DAMN!


114 posted on 01/22/2009 1:33:24 PM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: xsmommy; tioga
I've got that whole bad boy persona down pretty well.


115 posted on 01/22/2009 1:40:09 PM PST by CholeraJoe ("They taped over your mouth, Scribbled out the truth with their lies. You little spies!")
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To: Travis T. OJustice

i know! i am literally sending the link to everyone i know!


116 posted on 01/22/2009 1:40:54 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: CholeraJoe

bad boy/deranged person, same diff ; )


117 posted on 01/22/2009 1:42:39 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember
"That wouldn't be premature pandiculation?"

Not as long as you're awake for it.

118 posted on 01/22/2009 3:17:31 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you translate Pi into base 43 notation, it will contain this statement.)
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To: secret garden

Oh my, there have been times I have pandiculated in the morning and pulled my back out, or caused a charley horse in my leg. Painful!


119 posted on 01/22/2009 3:29:57 PM PST by siamesecats
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To: CholeraJoe

Gangsta or Blues Brother? Hard to tell...


120 posted on 01/22/2009 3:34:48 PM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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