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Word for the Day, Monday, April 16, 2012-- picayune
4/16/12 | xs

Posted on 04/16/2012 4:40:14 AM PDT by xsmommy

Word For The Day, Monday, 4/16/12

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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".

picayune; adj.

1. of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount. 2. petty, carping, or prejudiced: I didn't want to seem picayune by criticizing. noun 3. (formerly, in Louisiana, Florida, etc.) a coin equal to half a Spanish real. 4. any small coin, as a five-cent piece. 5. Informal . an insignificant person or thing.

Etymology: 1780–90; < Provençal picaioun small copper coin (compare French picaillons ), derivative of an onomatopoetic base *pikk- beat, here referring to the coining of coppers

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.

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Practice makes perfect.....post on....




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To: rustbucket

Interesting take on the name. I’ll bet a picayune that you are right on the money! (pun intended)


61 posted on 04/16/2012 10:54:08 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: xsmommy; tioga

Huma Abedin, Wife of Anthony Weiner, Gives Birth

December 22nd, 2011

A son!

Read more celebrity gossip at: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/12/huma-abedin-wife-of-anthony-weiner-gives-birth/#ixzz1sE91qdmE


62 posted on 04/16/2012 10:59:04 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

hopefully the baby is more discreet than his father! i don’t know, i would assume lib women would be rushing back to their careers, it’s been 4 months, so i’m curious if Huma is back to work or not.


63 posted on 04/16/2012 11:17:47 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

No one wonders; we already know her choice of partners.


64 posted on 04/16/2012 11:20:56 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: xsmommy

Well, she’s a government employee — last I heard, some kind of Deputy Secretary of State. And the last I heard she was the only breadwinner in that family. I don’t know how far maternity leave extends these days. 12 weeks?


65 posted on 04/16/2012 11:25:19 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: xsmommy

Gallop has Romney debuting with a 2% lead over O w/indies breaking for Romney. Attacking AnnRomney hasn’t worked out so well.


66 posted on 04/16/2012 11:46:06 AM PDT by tioga (Yesterday's Flower Children are today's Blooming Idiots.)
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To: xsmommy

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2872817/posts

What do you think of this?


67 posted on 04/16/2012 11:56:45 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

There is no federal maternity leave, you take your annual leave/sick leave, you can take up to 12 weeks of advanced leave, and you can take leave without pay.


68 posted on 04/16/2012 12:02:52 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

GENIUS caps fans are bringing O faces [cutout faces of obama] to taunt TT with tonight. HONESTLY.... i tweeted several DC hockey bloggers to say, SERIOULY? do people REALLY think that TT gives a good damn about Barack Obama? i said if he’s so scary, why not bring the REAL THING there instead of O faces. OH THAT”S RIGHT bc obama has never set foot in a hockey rink. My eyes roll completely from my head at this point.


69 posted on 04/16/2012 12:05:32 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: afraidfortherepublic

just told ya : )


70 posted on 04/16/2012 12:06:44 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

We have fans that have GIANT heads on sticks of our coaches, announcers, and a few of the players. They wave them around during the game. Giant Obama heads would just get giant BOOOS anywhere outside of DC.


71 posted on 04/16/2012 12:18:10 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

the head phenomenon isn’t new, they’ve had it for a year or more in NCAA basketball. But this is galling. It assumes that everyone here is a dem which is ludicrous in and of itself. Stephen Hayes and Rich Lowrey are both Caps fans and tweet about the games, and those are just big name people i happen to follow. i have been steady pushing back against this on twitter.


72 posted on 04/16/2012 12:23:25 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Fight the good fight! I think you are a voice in the wilderness where most people around you are employed by the govt.


73 posted on 04/16/2012 12:26:48 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave; theDentist; hobbes1

Calling all IT brainiacs! The sound on my computer is gone. I tried going to the control panel to make adjustments but it is greyed out where I can adjust volume so it won’t respond. Any ideas?


74 posted on 04/16/2012 12:30:03 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

Did you try turning it off and back on again?


75 posted on 04/16/2012 1:15:06 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

If I didn’t have research for a bid to do, I’d pack up my plant gathering stuff and spend the rest of the afternoon as far into the woods as I can go and still get home by evening-it is cloudy, breezy and cool...

I don’t think that Obama
Will be so snooty and smug
When the latest scandals can’t
Be swept under the usual rug

It isn’t a picayune matter
That secret service has no respect
For that guy in the white house
Who calls himself the elect

They might be channeling Clinton
And figure Obama is the same-
Why not play when off duty-
The boss already has a bad name

I do think the rank-and-file LEOs who work for Obama have absolutely no respect for him, just like they had none for Clinton, because he treats them like lackeys, the same way that Clinton did, even to their wives being rude to them-remember Hillary’s infamous “don’t look at me” line?


76 posted on 04/16/2012 1:15:24 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: secret garden

Go to Control Panel/Sounds and audio devices? Does it show any devices installed?


77 posted on 04/16/2012 1:17:50 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
Don't make me smack you.

Yes, I did that right after checking the control panel didn't help.
78 posted on 04/16/2012 2:09:40 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: Texan5

A+++ seems like u could’ve fit erect in there somewhere between SS and the clintoon.... ; )


79 posted on 04/16/2012 2:28:17 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave
So I just now went back to the Control Panel and nothing was grey and mute had been checked(not by me) so I reset it and now it IS working. I get annoyed at technology when it goes off and does stupid things without any prompting. It's why I will never trust robots. Thanks for trying to help! :-)
And tell me why Asham wasn't getting a call from Shanny? That looked nasty yesterday. Also I want to know what was said by the Sens player in pregame that warranted a 10 gr fine on the team.
80 posted on 04/16/2012 2:35:19 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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