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Word for the Day, Monday, March 8, 2010-- feckless
3/8/10 | xs

Posted on 03/08/2010 5:08:26 AM PST by xsmommy

Word For The Day, Monday, 3/8/10



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".

feckless; adj.

1. ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing. 2. having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Careless and irresponsible.

Etymology: 1590s, from feck, "effect, value, vigor" (late 15c.), Scottish shortened form of effect; popularized by Carlyle, who left its opposite, feckful, in dialectal obscurity.

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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To: xsmommy

Both, apparently!


21 posted on 03/08/2010 5:38:22 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: xsmommy
Is he just feckless,
Is he merely wreckless
Or is there a communist living in the White House.
22 posted on 03/08/2010 5:42:31 AM PST by NeoCaveman ("workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore" SEIU's Andy Stern)
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To: xsmommy
Hardly a feckless opening... Took all 4 kids to see this in IMAX 3D Saturday A.M....An amazing piece of film.
23 posted on 03/08/2010 5:46:23 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: xsmommy

More Substance . . . . Less Feck

24 posted on 03/08/2010 5:53:20 AM PST by mikrofon (Carter Lite)
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To: xsmommy

Joe is a little dumber, Barry a shade more ruthless. (Am I allowed to say “shade?”)


25 posted on 03/08/2010 6:10:20 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Barack Obama: Bill Clinton :: Bill Clinton: Ronald Reagan)
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To: xsmommy

Being German, my skin is clear and without feckles, which makes me rather feckless.


26 posted on 03/08/2010 6:13:00 AM PST by sig226 (Bring back Jimmy Carter!)
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To: xsmommy

while I was back in my hometown last week, which is in massa’s district, I heard he was fired from his corporate job for being incompetent.

I have no sympathy, as whoever comes from that district will be conservative, whether dem or pubbie. massa turned the tide in his favor over his opponent by showing a pic of him in the back of a limo with GW just before election day.

my dear walmart-hating liberal dem SIL actually worked to elect massa....he is her HERO. (sigh)


27 posted on 03/08/2010 6:14:49 AM PST by tioga
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To: camle

God bless you both. What an ordeal.


28 posted on 03/08/2010 6:17:49 AM PST by tioga
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To: xsmommy
RE calls them bien pensants, I call them feckless weasels. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
29 posted on 03/08/2010 6:18:50 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: hobbes1

xsgirls and i went yesterday. i saw smallish kids in there and wondered if they would like it. it’s really not a kids movie done this way, is it? we liked it.


30 posted on 03/08/2010 6:19:03 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: NicknamedBob

That’s beautiful.


31 posted on 03/08/2010 6:20:28 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: NeoCaveman

both! A+++


32 posted on 03/08/2010 6:21:56 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: mikrofon

LOL!!! A++++


33 posted on 03/08/2010 6:22:24 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

LMAO!!!


34 posted on 03/08/2010 6:23:09 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1

We’re going today since it’s a teacher inservice day. I cannot wait!


35 posted on 03/08/2010 6:23:23 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: sig226

A+++ lots of jimmy carter taglines going round, apparently, LOL!


36 posted on 03/08/2010 6:24:11 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

do you recommend it though? for what ages?


37 posted on 03/08/2010 6:25:13 AM PST by tioga
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To: secret garden

with my eye kind of swollen shut i thought that was bien PISSANTS... ; o A+++


38 posted on 03/08/2010 6:26:47 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

The 3D format kinda freaked the little one out a tad....


39 posted on 03/08/2010 6:29:58 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: xsmommy
another doctor's appointment today and a feckless attempt to figure out what is wrong with me. LOL

OK.....here is a feckless attempt at writing a song...I am aweswome.....met all my friends on line....I am awesome....sexy like John McCain....blah, blah....very funny song!

40 posted on 03/08/2010 6:31:01 AM PST by tioga
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