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Word For The Day, Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - plinth
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Word of the Day ^ | 01/12/2011

Posted on 01/12/2011 6:12:03 AM PST by VRWCmember

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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; afraidfortherepublic

I didn’t even know they had stolen them! His sculptures are fairly big and couldn’t be carried out under a trenchcoat. You can Google Chihuly at Cheekwood and see how magnificent it was, especially at night.


21 posted on 01/12/2011 9:36:46 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

I would have to google the story to remember details, but I think he made a bowl and gave to the White House - they took it with them instead of leaving it


22 posted on 01/12/2011 9:49:24 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA ("The View" is the new Maury Povich inspired "Fight Club in Heels")
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To: secret garden
i don't know from Chihuly, but i associate it with the clintoons. didn't FR have some comprehensive list of items that they had given to them or something years ago? hadn't heard of chihuly since. guess he's got one in his LIEBERRY ; )
23 posted on 01/12/2011 9:52:07 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

HA!!! i didn’t even read down to see you had said the same thing, but that’s what comes to my mind and i knew it was on some LONG list of stuff that freepers had compiled but couldn’t remember what the list was for, but it was clintoon related!


24 posted on 01/12/2011 9:53:39 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember
The real plinth that is the Obama platform......and the real reason he went into a ratings freefall.
25 posted on 01/12/2011 10:05:02 AM PST by tioga (The January Triumph of the House Republicans begins!)
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To: xsmommy

I really liked most of the sculptures we saw but that one looks a little ... risque, maybe because it lacks any bright color. Most artists are raging leftists so I’m not surprised.


26 posted on 01/12/2011 11:54:09 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

His stuff is cool looking, I agree. It may just look risqué bc it’s in the clintoon trailer lieberry! We are prob gonna have to stop for a photo op in front of the place when driving to Dallas for graduation in May.


27 posted on 01/12/2011 12:39:47 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember
I need a plinth for my new statue of Ann Coulter

Liberals seek to ban metaphors

28 posted on 01/12/2011 2:33:57 PM PST by NeoCaveman (Touch my tagline and I'll have you arrested)
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To: VRWCmember

Another usage is the carpenter’s familiar plinth block, often used at both the bottom and top of casements around doors and windows. I have several right in this room.

While decorative, their real utility is that they allow square cuts and speed finish work.


29 posted on 01/12/2011 3:41:22 PM PST by NicknamedBob ( I'm feeling very good. This worries me, because it may be a precursor to my doing something stupid.)
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To: VRWCmember

I thought “plinth rock” was where the Pilgrims landed.


30 posted on 01/12/2011 4:25:22 PM PST by SoothingDave
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To: NeoCaveman; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; hobbes1

Oh. My. Gawd. Did you hear that Favre’s sister was busted in a meth lab?? Unbelieveable dénouement for the attention whore’s career. I am stuned.


31 posted on 01/12/2011 4:37:47 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Patron or proprietor?


32 posted on 01/13/2011 12:47:35 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

meth? unbelievable.


33 posted on 01/13/2011 4:50:47 AM PST by tioga (The January Triumph of the House Republicans begins!)
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To: tioga

ok, no class today....later gaters.


34 posted on 01/13/2011 5:58:58 AM PST by tioga (The January Triumph of the House Republicans begins!)
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To: xsmommy

Saw that this morning...

Brandi...You’re a fine girl....


35 posted on 01/13/2011 6:54:40 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: hobbes1; secret garden

no sign of SG so i guess i will post a thread in just a minute here.


36 posted on 01/13/2011 7:10:32 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

Proprietor


37 posted on 01/13/2011 8:35:57 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA ("The View" is the new Maury Povich inspired "Fight Club in Heels")
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