Word For The Day, Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - pink

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Word of the Day ^

[VRWCmember]

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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".

pink • \PINK\ • verb
1a. to perforate in an ornamental pattern
1b. to cut a saw-toothed edge on *
2a. pierce, stab
2b. to wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule

* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

Example sentence:

"The sleek curtain requires no sewing; we pinked the edges to add a bit of detail." (Jennie Voorhees, Martha Stewart Living, April 2002)

Did you know?
Our unabridged dictionary, Webster's Third New International, includes 13 distinct entries for "pink," whereas our abridged volume, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate, satisfies itself with the five most common. (Words get distinct entries in our dictionaries when they have different etymologies or different parts of speech.) Today's "pink," the only verb of the five, is from a Middle English word meaning "to thrust." Of the remaining four, the only "pink" older than the verb (which dates to 1503) is a 15th century noun referring to a kind of ship. The next-oldest noun has since 1573 referred to a genus of herbs. The noun referring to the color pink and its related adjective date to 1678 and 1720, respectively. Evidence suggests that a new verb "pink" -- a synonym of the verb "pink-slip" -- is also emerging.

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
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
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)

[count-your-change]

Howdy Doody, Buffaloe Bob! I'm tellin’ you we're feeling good here in Atkinsonville this morning, yessir! Not much Class and even less School but still feeling good.

So let's knock out this PINK and return to our reg-guue-lar-lee sheduled (that's how them Brits say it and it sounds like Orly when he's either drunk or mad) program of wine tasting. So here goes with a headline story from the page (it only has one) of The Atkinsonville Cosmic Gazette.

Last night Myron Cuthbert’s prize breeding boar imbibed a gallon or so of Myron's home made cough syrup and wandered down to Myron's sawmill. The boar fell into the saw pit and turned PINK.

He surely did get PERFORATED IN AN ORNAMENTAL PATTERN. (sort of cutlets style) with A SAW TOOTHED EDGE (lots of saw toothed, lots of edges)and PIERCED AND STABBED? (with a newly swaged and hammered, 48 inch blade, lots of that piercing and stabbin’ too like Saturday night at the Ladies Auxiliary) plus WOUND BY IRONY (I'd call it nickel steel so irony is close enough but wound just doesn't come close to turning a 600 pound boar to cutlets and chitlins).

So there's PINK for ya! Right now I feel a cough coming on so I'm headed to Myron's to see if that boar, the other other pink one, not Myron, to see if that boar left any of the cough syrup.
Yipppeeee! Souse and grits tonight!

[SoothingDave]

In the last 35 years? I don’t have that memorized, I just know that they haven’t been below .500 since 1974. They almost blew it last year, but did finish exactly at .500.

[tioga]

I have done the testing today of leaning over, up, down and I am feeling nil, nada, zip of light-headedness......I am even going out in the car. I promised my squad captain I would call if I still had symptoms 24 hours after my last pill, and it is now that...symptoms gone...so far so good. He just called to check on me. LOL

Thanks for caring. And you are right about EMS...we think we know it all! LOL

[xsmommy]

i didn’t realize they had a football team. i thought you were being facetious by saying they didn’t have a LOSING one, bc they didn’t have one at all. why don’t you spend your hard earned $$ on attending CMU scotty dog football games, instead o Pitt? ; )

[NeoCaveman]

Jim Rogers pinks the policies that will give us two zombie decades.

This is a twofer as it is also a daily uplift

[NeoCaveman]

I approve that post :)

[xsmommy]

synopsize what a zombie decade is for me please?

[NeoCaveman]

Think Japan 1990 to present.

Then their stock market was at 40k now it is at 10k.

At best it is a “muddling through” at worst its slow decline.

Actually I think Karl has it down even better in this Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=m1VbGcaVvFM&fromurl=/watch%3Fv%3Dm1VbGcaVvFM%26feature%3Dautofb

[xsmommy]

well how can this possibly be true when bernanke just yesterday said the recession is over, that means eco growth is underway.

hahahaha

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I don't get the joke - that's how you say wank....I wank at people all the time... ;^)

Ugh, Bambi is speaking without his trusty teleprompter - what a buffoon! How can anyone think he's a great speaker? Uh, uh, we uh, uh...

[NeoCaveman]

Bernanke has to be a blast at parties.

My favorite joke of his is from 2007 when he said the housing market problem was contained.

That was a good one :)

[xsmommy]

the man just needs to go into seclusion for awhile. i am so sick of seeing his mug on TV nonstop and hearing his voice i could scream!

[sig226]

I think it’s suppposed to be p1Nkd. This is the internet. :)

[SoothingDave]

Not have a football team? They once beat Notre Dame, shocking the world.

They also went to the Cotton Bowl once.

Alas, that was a long time ago. They are in Division III now, the true scholar atheletes. I prefer the fun of Heinz Field and Division I football.

[xsmommy]

"I don't wanna be getting dissed on some rap record. On the radio, a number one song: 'I got money/Chris Rock ain't funny.'" --Chris Rock While taking audience questions at a Toronto International Film Festival event, the comedian insisted he won't discuss Kanye West's VMA debacle because, as he put it, "Too many things rhyme with Rock."

[SoothingDave]

Check out this guys letter:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/letters/s_643273.html

I just sent a beautiful one-liner response to the paper:

“If Mr. Eanes of the Mennonite Publishing Network is so enamored with Van Jones’ “Green Jobs” solutions, I assume he is first on the list to volunteer to have one of Mr. Jones’ felons visit his grandmother’s house to insulate her water heater?”

[xsmommy]

perfect. what an ass.

[verga]

My Mother used pinking shears to make shorts for us when we were kids

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

There are lots of true scholar athletes in Division I schools as well so don’t try to pull that elitist crap here....;^)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I had to go back and read what happened to you - I join the chorus of call your doctor today!!!! I take BP meds and occasionally feel a bit light headed -but I’ve never passed out