Word for the Day, Monday, April 12, 2010-- bowdlerize

4/12/10 | xs

[secret garden]

That is very tempting since the ungrateful shelter cat still has claws on the hind feet.

[xsmommy]

LOL! clever!! A+++

[SoothingDave]

I saw Glenn Beck recommend it, and picked it up at the bookstore before my last voyage.

We just ended Reconstruction, with a side foray into Indian wars and politics. The Progressives should be up soon.

[xsmommy]

i am not nearly that far into it and have taken a side trip with some fiction reading. Swan Thieves, which Ti recommended, is very good. Truthy, is that why you posted the pic of the painting Leda?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I posted the painting of Leda and the Swan because the word for the day was “soigne.”

[tioga]

I am reading A Patriot’s History now as well. No fair posting about his book (post 118,119) without pinging LS to the thread...LOL.

LS, I think our whole class must be reading your book!

[xsmommy]

and you don’t know anything about the book Swan Thieves?

[secret garden]

Her last book was good too, The Historian, but I’m afraid this one is too lengthy for my book club. I suggested we skip a month meeting to get it read but no one has responded favorably yet.

[xsmommy]

I read the Historian while on vaca a few years back. i like long books. after only two sittings with the book i am halfway through it. it is extremely engaging.

[VRWCmember]

LOL GMTA...

Yet irksome idiots' incompetence is insufficient justification for restricting freedoms of everybody else.

[xsmommy]

thats what i said!!!

[tioga]

with the Swan Thieves I was so disappointed when the book ended....wasn’t long enough for me.

[LS]

Thanks. Much appreciated.

[LS]

Thanks. What class is that?

[SoothingDave]

How many people have to die before you think it’s justified to control traffic patterns?

[xsmommy]

oh lighten up. or heavy down. i brought lunch

[tioga]

We call the Word for the Day thread as a classroom. and those who post the thread our teachers.

[SoothingDave]

Could do without the sauce.

[VOA]

Here is my "use the word in a sentence" submission:

"The mainstream press simply bowdlerize(d) Obama's obvious
leftist worldview so that he would be a candidate for President."

Not beautiful, but sure does seem to be a reasonable use of term.

[xsmommy]

excellent! they did indeed excise that which would make people uncomfortable and left the innocous mainstream crap in place. A+++