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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; CholeraJoe; martin_fierro
whoa. just whoa.
81 posted on 01/22/2009 7:18:45 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: martin_fierro; All
A+ for you.
Y'all behave. I'm heading to the park for some fresh air.
82 posted on 01/22/2009 7:20:41 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: xsmommy

There’s drunk, and then there’s ugly drunk. Guess which one she is.


83 posted on 01/22/2009 7:45:36 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember

i missed seeing the F me porn shoes she was supposedly wearing, someone on the thread commented on them.


84 posted on 01/22/2009 7:48:36 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: secret garden
Note the media pandiculation over this one.

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?

85 posted on 01/22/2009 7:52:49 AM PST by sig226 (1/21/12 . . . He's not my president . . . Impeach Obama . . . whatever)
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To: sig226; Travis T. OJustice

your guys know about this, trav?


86 posted on 01/22/2009 7:57:10 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

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.


87 posted on 01/22/2009 8:03:52 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: NeoCaveman
I AM INCREDULOUS. it boggles my mind that the author of THAT was in charge of sarah palin.
88 posted on 01/22/2009 8:09:11 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: sig226

Wow. The evil midget strikes again. A+ for you.


89 posted on 01/22/2009 9:33:33 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: secret garden

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????


90 posted on 01/22/2009 9:43:09 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: xsmommy

Nicole Wallace revived the Perky One’s career.


91 posted on 01/22/2009 9:45:07 AM PST by NeoCaveman (I'm a RINO, he's a RINO, wouldn't you like to be a RINO too...)
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To: theDentist

We’re almost there. Here’s an A to cheer you up. :-)


92 posted on 01/22/2009 9:51:31 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: NeoCaveman
joo see that ann was on dr phil, along with jimrob?


93 posted on 01/22/2009 9:51:44 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: secret garden; NeoCaveman; SoothingDave; TruthShallSetYouFree; VRWCmember; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; ...
Iowahawk's The Idiossey is a work of art! everyone must read it, it's hilarious!
94 posted on 01/22/2009 10:49:58 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; IowaHawk
Thanks for the link xsmommy. Iowahawk, you have outdone yourself!!! I read this out loud to my husband and seriously, no joke, he was choking he was laughing so hard.

Simply outstanding!

95 posted on 01/22/2009 11:28:48 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Computer says No..... Carole Beer)
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To: CholeraJoe

LOL....you bad boy you!


96 posted on 01/22/2009 11:56:50 AM PST by tioga
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To: xsmommy; IowaHawk

Simply outstanding.


97 posted on 01/22/2009 12:08:44 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: xsmommy

Some poem. Doesn’t even rhyme.


98 posted on 01/22/2009 12:27:28 PM PST by SoothingDave
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To: secret garden

Pennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddiiiiiiicculatioonnnnnnnn, oh that felt good.


99 posted on 01/22/2009 12:42:47 PM PST by dixie sass
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To: VRWCmember

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.


100 posted on 01/22/2009 12:55:53 PM PST by xsmommy
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