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Word for the Day, Monday, April 12, 2010-- bowdlerize
4/12/10 | xs

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

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....




TOPICS: Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: bowdlerize; censorship; deception; wordfortheday
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To: hobbes1

oh bc it’s such a manly, brutish job RME> stick to plunging toilets, now that’s MAN”s work!


81 posted on 04/12/2010 6:57:26 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden; hobbes1
Isn’t it funny how people up there know where they live by their exits?

Exit 42 off of Route 80. Exit 39 off of Route 287. Wanna make somethin' of it?

82 posted on 04/12/2010 6:58:21 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Barack Obama: Government:: Bernie Madoff: Finance)
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To: SoothingDave

they put in a stoplight where our road dumps out onto the main road. it is a pain in the @$$ to have to sit through that cycle.


83 posted on 04/12/2010 6:58:40 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
In the same town where it was decapitated 70 years before.

Which ties in nicely with my theory that we get dragged in or start World War III in the next decade.

84 posted on 04/12/2010 7:01:10 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (we now live in a post-Obamapacolyptic world)
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To: SoothingDave; NeoCaveman

as i just told neo in freepmail, look at the Soother being such a fricking pedant that he can’t even tell that i am playing a libertarian on this thread. you are so bound up in your pedantry you can’t even see irony when it’s slapping you in the puss!


85 posted on 04/12/2010 7:01:18 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: NeoCaveman

and why the US doesn’t appear in End Times scripture.


86 posted on 04/12/2010 7:02:02 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
i am still chuckling at how i shook the lives of those NYers by daring to speak to them, by asking a question!

Reminds me of an old NY joke: A midwesterner was wandering through NYC, doing some sightseeing. He had heard of the reputation that the locals have, but was still eager to visit some of the landmarks. He stopped a guy on the street and said, "Could you tell me how to get to the Empire State Building, or should I just go f**k myself?"

87 posted on 04/12/2010 7:03:14 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Barack Obama: Government:: Bernie Madoff: Finance)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

LMAO!!!


88 posted on 04/12/2010 7:03:58 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Nope. But then again I don’t live in the City either...


89 posted on 04/12/2010 7:04:20 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: xsmommy

And you respond seriously to a joke about a tip jar. ;-)


90 posted on 04/12/2010 7:06:34 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: hobbes1; TruthShallSetYouFree

i am cracking up because i didn’t even think of it when i was asking them, and factor it into their reaction to me, i was in search of the answer to my question, is it ok to park there or will we be towed. now i am roaring when i think of the effrontery of it all, and to a man/woman, each of them began with “EXCUSE ME?” i was speaking slowly and in a well-modulated voice, so had they not been so SHAKEN by someone speaking to them, they should have gotten it the first time.


91 posted on 04/12/2010 7:06:47 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1; xsmommy
It’s called a Jughandle.

Mmmm! Jughandle!!

92 posted on 04/12/2010 7:07:16 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Barack Obama: Government:: Bernie Madoff: Finance)
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To: SoothingDave

but your joke was not funny but me being a libertarian is hilarious on so many levels.


93 posted on 04/12/2010 7:07:36 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

LOL! isn’t that appropriate!


94 posted on 04/12/2010 7:08:58 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Another favorite NY joke. A midwesterner is visiting NY, and was told by a Jewish friend that he had to try the matzoh ball soup at Katz’ Deli. He goes there and orders it, enjoying it thouroughly, and then says to the waiter: “These matzoh balls are delicious. Is any other part of the matzoh edible?”


95 posted on 04/12/2010 7:10:47 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Barack Obama: Government:: Bernie Madoff: Finance)
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To: xsmommy

It certainly is. Thug.


96 posted on 04/12/2010 7:11:32 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

we had to go through the Catskills to get from the southern tier to NYC and i thought of you, truthy, yes i did! i love your stories of your time there.


97 posted on 04/12/2010 7:12:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

“Jughandle” seems more like a fascination for Cletus the slack-jawed yokel.


98 posted on 04/12/2010 7:13:22 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: hobbes1; SoothingDave

i wasn’t sure you got it either, but at least you weren’t up on your pedantic highhorse expounding on why this was so necessary, LOL!


99 posted on 04/12/2010 7:13:32 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave
what do yunz think of alan grayson.
100 posted on 04/12/2010 7:14:46 AM PDT by xsmommy
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