Posted on 01/20/2010 6:13:29 AM PST by VRWCmember
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".
Augean stable • \aw-JEE-un-STAY-bul\ • noun 
a condition or place marked by great accumulation of filth or corruption
Example sentence:
The presidency of Ulysses S. Grant was marred by his refusal to clean out the Augean stables of his own administration
Did you know?
"Augean stable" most often appears in the phrase "clean the Augean stable," which usually means "clear away corruption" or "perform a large and unpleasant task that has long called for attention." Augeas, the mythical king of Elis, kept great stables that held 3,000 oxen and had not been cleaned for thirty years -- until Hercules was assigned the job. Hercules accomplished this task by causing two rivers to run through the stables. The word "Augean" is sometimes used by itself, too -- it has come to mean "extremely difficult and usually distasteful." We can refer to "Augean tasks," "Augean labor," or even "Augean clutter."
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....
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)
Here is my example with today's WFTD.
Any attempt to clean the Augean Stable of democrat corruption in Washington must start with one step, and the GOP took a huge one last night. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (or at least not ashamed that they are part of my country). That said, Kathleen Parker is clearly clueless in her attempt to analyze the implications of this election.
Scott Brown's Ascendancy As A 'Massachusetts Man Of The People'
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Only 
days left until BO's replacement is sworn in.
Get to class you slackers!
I'll say it again: For the first time in my adult life, I am not ashamed of the fact that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is part of my country!
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Kathleen Parker is a clueless shrew.
The Kennedys must be spinning in their graves that their hereditary title has passed to a commoner AND a Republican.
To help clean the Augean Stable
Of dems, here’s Scott Brown at the table
For the libs, so much drama
Shift the blame from Obama
And continue his “Hope and Change” fable
Coulter on Brown race: I Wish Ted Kennedy were alive to see this; it's like Ramadan in January
...it'll be all right after november, honest.
It took a river to clean the filth out of the original stable.
And now, to clean the second? (Potomac ain’t big enough. Maybe use the Augean Sea? We auger think about a bigger solution to the hole problem.)
The best thing that could happen to Barack Obama is more Democratic losses in hodgepodge elections that might yank away our young transfixed Narcissus from his mesmerizing reflecting pool
There ain’t even enough bleach at the Clorox factory to clean that mess...
i saw him on with Maddow and he was making NO SENSE [not that that’s unusual]
Ironic that Ted Kennedy killed healthcare by staying around the Senate one term too long, leading to this vacancy. Ha.
My two little girlies are on their way to visit me this morning......YEAH! I cannot wait to hug them!
Well, his delicate little infantile worldview has been shattered, so it’s understandable.
Is he the fire-breathing red-meat conservative that we need at the top of our ticket in 2012? Probably not. But I doubt that he is the milque-toast, panty-waste, squishy republican turncoat that we have come to expect from Northeastern GOP senators over the years because of clowns like Spectre, and Chafee, and Jeffords, et al.
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