Posted on 04/12/2010 5:07:24 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 4/12/10
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".
bowdlerize; verb
1 : to expurgate (as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar 2 : to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content
Etymology:
1830–40; after Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), English editor of an expurgated edition of Shakespeare
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Oh, you’d like for me to expound upon Alan Grayson, wouldn’t you?
looks good!
no, i’d like you to freep the dang poll is what i’d like you to do!
i am, by and large, not a big fan of expounding. xshub will, on occasion, mount up on a soapbox about something and i will indulge him for a minute or two and then say yeah, yeah, cut to the chase.
I finished reading “The Forgotten Man” the other day and it seemed kind of abrupt to me.
It just ended. FDR got re-elected, the end.
No wrap up of the author’s main points, no follow up on the programs and people, nothing.
It just stopped.
Did you find this odd as well?
His people love him. Eeew. They can have him.
she told the story and he died, the end. you will find more of that kind of thing in burt fulsom’s book, New Deal Raw Deal.
Both my sons went to school in D.C. and I spent many Saturdays there. I think Washington is tougher because the streets are laid out like the spokes on a bicycle wheel, whereas NYC is a perfect grid, with streets running east-west and avenues running north-south.
Of course, NY cab drivers are justifiably famous for their aggressiveness, which adds a bit to the difficulty. Whenever I visit the Big Apple, I take off my polite, suburban, "sure--you can squeeze in ahead of me" manners and go into Earnhardt mode. The cabbies can sense fear and weakness!
Klein is way too smart to be a comedian, isn’t he? I always thought of how much he must have hated hanging around with stupid people, which is how I see a lot of comedians, cough Kathy Griffin, cough, cough.
yes, NYC is easier as far as figuring out the grid. DC streets often have no rhyme or reason. i do agree that cabbies can sense weakness. he stuck to the middle lane and the denali is very much like a tank, he proceeded at his own pace. i think you can drive anywhere so long as you have self confidence and lightning fast reflexes. there’s no time for second guessing yourself. he couldn’t wait to relate his adventures to his NYC colleagues who do not OWN cars. personally, i thought it was fine driving there, much easier than i thought. i want to go back for a weekend, maybe this summer when xsteen is home. and i think driving is far cheaper than either the train or plane for 5 people, no matter what gas/tolls/parking costs.
Klein is very intelligent. I grew up a few neighborhoods away—he in the relatively higher-end northern part of The Bronx, and I in the Yankee Stadium area in the south. The differences were minor in those days, and my life experience, like so many Jewish boys from The Bronx and Brooklyn, mirrored his. Nearly everyone I knew worked in the Catskills in the summer, as a waiter, busboy, bellhop, or camp counselor. It was very hard work, but a great entree into the Real World.
I doubt it. He's a one term congresman. and a moonbat.
Then the poll is being skewed by lefties.
The poll is obviously being DU'hed
I’m reading the Patriot’s History of the United States now.
LS’s book? why so am i.
Bowwowdlerize is what Michelle does to fashion.
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