Word For The Day, Thursday, January 22, 2009 - pandiculation

dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | 22 Janiary 2009 | secret garden

[secret garden]

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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....

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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!

[Travis T. OJustice]

That’s good! i didn’t think it was cold enough to do that! Glad I was wrong. That makes two times inmy life now that I have been wrong. Damn.

[xsmommy]

i’m glad you were wrong too! i wasn’t going to be 100% comfortable leaving town with that door not fully closed, even with the inner garage door locked. now i am just wanting my van to have a nice warm bath somewhere bc it is salt-covered and nasty. i haven’t had time and it has still been too cold.

[CholeraJoe]

Most of the Noobs don’t know what an “Ash Alert” is.

[xsmommy]

they don’t know what DITHF is either.

[CholeraJoe]

This place has changed lots in 10 years. Mostly for the better.

[xsmommy]

mighty generous of Murtha to offer up western PA to house the Gitmo detainees.

[xsmommy]

i think it used to be pretty cliquish back then, at least it seemed so to me.

[Travis T. OJustice]

All that stuff is available for reading in the Freeper Lore, including CGEB and others, for those that care to read it.

[VRWCmember]

It looks like some House Republicans woke up and, after a pandiculation, reached way down and found a set of balls to come up with a tax cut economic stimulus proposal.

[CholeraJoe]

including CGEB

Some days I miss Megan. "I see a host over the sun." LMAO.

[secret garden]

Finally some good news. A+ for you and the republicans who remembered why they were elected.

[SoothingDave]

i was Sirius first but most recently XM. i knew something was up, but wasn’t sure what. i thought maybe they had just willynilly changed the lineup and mixed up my presets accordingly, but then xsboy told me, no, they have combined so some of the titles of stations changed. i don’t know what Classic Rewind used to be on XM, but i think that’s Sirius title for whatever i used to have preset there.

I'm sure you can find a support group out there somewhere. ;-)

[SoothingDave]

Fayette County needs jobs.

[xsmommy]

you weren’t one of the males schnookered by the burly hirsute guy pretending to be the demure little vixen were you ? ; )

[SoothingDave]

This place has changed lots in 10 years. Mostly for the better.

I don't agree. Too many bigots and fools here and too little rational civilized conversations.

[CholeraJoe]

Not moi. That would have been OPH.

[VRWCmember]

they don’t know what DITHF is either.

I've been here a long time and that one has me perplexed.

[xsmommy]

Deep in the Hurtgen Forest was someone i think they unmasked as a poser. think he claimed to be military, but my memory of the scandal is hazy.

[martin_fierro]

Everything old is new again.

[xsmommy]

hey neo can pop over and get one from the Hanna building, if’n it’s still there... ; )