Posted on 06/15/2009 5:30:00 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday,6/15/09
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".
gobemouche; noun
Gobe`mouche"\, n. [F.] Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person; A highly credulous naif, a very gullible person who believes everything he or she hears no matter how absurd.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
i see the new KINDLE Is coming out. i do not get the point of those things really. i saw one once, a mom of one of xsbrownie’s friends showed me her’s in the pick up line at school once. she had gotten it for mothers day. $500, and so you dial up books. i happen to like to hold a book and turn the pages. doesn’t matter if you are at the pool and all greasy with suntan lotion, so long as it’s not a library book, i’d not want to grease up a $500 kindle. It really strikes me as something for someone who doesn’t know what to do with their $500.
hope it will. of course if it were US, it wouldn’t change and it would pour and storm, but maybe you guys have better luck : )
I think Rika uses one of them, not sure the brand......I suspect in the future books will go the way of the daily newspapers and we will all use them.......probably not in my lifetime though.
It’s vacation. Sarah is happy just to be able to jump up and down on the hotel beds. ;-)
That happened to me once at the Big Cracker VA. A guy arrested and couldn’t be resuscitated and as soon as he was pronounced, the guy in the next room arrested. After about half an hour, I walked by the first guy’s room and saw him sitting on the side of the bed smoking.
I asked him how he was feeling and he said his chest was really sore.
that is so funny!
It had a sad ending. He re-arrested 2 days later and it really was the end that time.
Two days isn’t much time to get your affairs in order.
did he know he had been written off the first time???
At least the doctors aren’t a bunch of gobemouches:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272483/posts
so letterman is giving another half-hearted attempt at an apology........the guy needs to learn a lesson......
Happy birthday, tD! Sorry I missed it.
Thanks Slippy. It was pretty much as I hoped, filled with solitude, birds chirping, hammock swinging, and Scotch tipping.
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