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)
They always seem to leave out the part about the rise of civilization on Atlantis, the cataclysm and the migration of the Celts from the Iberian refugium.
you tried to grow veggies this past summer didn’t you? how’d that work out? if things get bad, guess i will try to grow food instead of flowers. While SG could easily grow veggies, given her master gardener status, would she EAT THEM if things got bad? ; )
whyisa, you tried to grow veggies this past summer didn’t you? how’d that work out? if things get bad, guess i will try to grow food instead of flowers. While SG could easily grow veggies, given her master gardener status, would she EAT THEM if things got bad? ; )
but hey, i’m all up on asians,Indians, and every stripe of oriental : )
Ummmmm.....no.
one month away from starvation and you are still turning your nose up at a zucchini?
Absolutely.
if your kids contracted scurvy while starving, you’d not grow and feed them zucchini?
do i sound like those INSIPID bud light commercials that make me want to shoot myself in the head, which are played NONSTOP during hockey games. If me and buster were hanging from a cliff, which one of us would you save? OR equally annoying, the guy who has the girl blurting out I LOVE YOU, in a bar and he can’t form the words. Honest to God, i cannot ABIDE those commercials. they make me hate women for one thing! i would slap either of my girls if they acted that way!
They need to resurrect the real men of genius commercials. Those were funny! And we’ll eat fruit to avoid scurvy. ;)
some of the too light, too heavy ones are funny. xsboy and i like the paintball one.
The spouse loves the poodle driving one, especially as he rounds the corner.
Haha - so the 4 year old has a little more decorum than the 2 year old....who will strip in public! lol
I have been trying to explain to my son that sometimes things have to really get bad before people are willing to make a change - in other words, you have to hit barak-bottom.
very punny. and true.
I did some container gardening - used big flower pots to grow some banana peppers, bell peppers and jalapenos - and had those hanging thingies for tomatoes..... the only problem I had was ants. I had not done a good job on my back yard this year letting the grass grow higher than the front (all enclosed fencing so no one could see it) - I was lazy. And in the process I did not fertilize/treat for ants....so I had ants all in my veggies... but this year I will take are of the ant problem and do a few more veggies - but they were not hard to do at all. I will probably do some squash and maybe some green onions - and some herbs.
That was funny..... since it wasn’t happening to me.
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do;
Finally, more hope for a change-
Is Teddy rolling in his grave
Since Brown has turned the tables?
Will the cleaning of DC begin
Like the fabled Augean stables?
Are the ‘rats running for cover
As the country takes a right?
Just like roaches scampering
When someone turns on a light
All I could think of when I heard of Southers’ abrupt withdrawal from consideration was that Obama is going to need another bus-it is WAY too crowded under the present one-
With apologies to Queen-
Another one under the bus, another one under the bus
And another one’s gone, and another one’s gone
Another one under the bus...
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