Posted on 02/22/2010 5:00:38 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 2/22/10
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".
boeotian; adj or noun
adjective 1.of or pertaining to Boeotia or its inhabitants. 2.dull; obtuse; without cultural refinement. –noun 3.a native or inhabitant of Boeotia. 4.a dull, obtuse person; Philistine
Etymology: Boeotian 1590s, "ignorant, dull," from Boeotia, district around Thebes in ancient Greece (said to have been so called for its cattle pastures), whose inhabitants were characterized as proverbially dull and countrified by their neighbors, the Athenians. The Boeotians presumably held reciprocal opinions, but their great writers, Plutarch and Pindar, though patriots, are full of praise for Athenian deeds and institutions. "Though his aim was to vindicate Boeotia, [Pindar] has probably done her a disservice, in that he has helped to immortalise the scurrilous proverb which he wished to confute. ... If left to itself, the slander might have passed into oblivion long ago." [W. Rhys Roberts, "The Ancient Boeotians," 1895]
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
A+++ that’s great!
Cyber .... "Defender of the Faith"
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That member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy who knows that their beliefs and actions warrant giving psychotics on the Left no quarter.
Thank yew! Who’s “Matt?”
Thank yew!!
Heh. Thanks!
Yee hah! Thanks!
Happy birthday y’all. No singing, promise...
I’ll have to work that one out with Miss Slippy...
That’s my sister! Thank Yew!!
I didn’t know I was a defender...but OK!
How ya been, Dixie? LTNS!
Although there certainly are plenty of Slavs in Hegewisch, no doubt, there is still a pretty strong Polish contingent. Fewer every day, it seems - but still plenty.
....went to his parents and told them their son was doing drugs. that just creeps me out. lots of students now saying the green light went on on their laptops, too. the law suit will break that school district.
i cannot imagine what dimbulbs OKed this for the school district. On what planet would it be even colorably OK to do such a thing?
one would think college educated teachers and their administration would understand the right to privacy and the fact that they were invading it. it just literally gives me the creeps.....big brother is coming for us some day at this rate.
LMAO! body fluid from a tranny all over her. gross.
she was exhilarated by it, had a conservative vomited on her for her leftwing views, she’d have sued!
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