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!
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.
Don’t you feel all hale and hearty now?
i don’t care for rhyming pomes. they make me itch. this was an EPIC! ; )
I read it out loud as well........loved it.
Hildusa and Obamacles.......LOL
Yea, thou speaketh true.
The epic poem
Can be a bit too wordy
Attention span small
I don’t know about hale and hearty, but do feel more limber!
medication
for thine ADD
lest thou miss the amazing talent.
i LOVE parodies like that, it was amazingly clever.
I thought the hand signs with the wand were a nice touch.
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.
as i predicted, xsteen’s response to my email with the pic was “WOWWWW...scary!” ; )
Iowahawk RULES! Damn, I wish I could right 25% as well as that. DAMN!
i know! i am literally sending the link to everyone i know!
bad boy/deranged person, same diff ; )
Not as long as you're awake for it.
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!
Gangsta or Blues Brother? Hard to tell...
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