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Word for the Day, Tuesday May 1, 2012

Posted on 05/01/2012 6:27:18 AM PDT by SoothingDave

Word For The Day, Tuesday, May 1, 2012



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".

ullage [uhl-ij]

-n

1. the amount by which the contents fall short of filling a container, as a cask or bottle.
2. the quantity of wine, liquor, or the like, remaining in a container that has lost part of its contents by evaporation, leakage, or use.
3. Rocketry the volume of a loaded tank of liquid propellant in excess of the volume of the propellant; the space provided for thermal expansion of the propellant and the accumulation of gases evolved from it.

[1400–50; late Middle English < Anglo-French ulliage; Old French ouillage, ( h ) eullage wine needed to fill a cask, equivalent to ( a ) ouill ( er ) to fill (a cask) (derivative of ouil eye, hole < Latin oculus ) + -age -age ]


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To: SoothingDave

Hilarious - and I agree, Sean Connery is the real James Bond! By the way, the guy who said that plays the director in the new tv show “Smash”


41 posted on 05/01/2012 10:20:47 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (ABO)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; tioga; xsmommy; secret garden; Texan5
OK, which of you got these love notes from Paul Ryan? One of you must have left quite the impression on him in the janitor's closet.
42 posted on 05/01/2012 10:24:30 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Sean Connery is the real James Bond!

Agreed.

43 posted on 05/01/2012 10:25:38 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: NeoCaveman

hilarious!


44 posted on 05/01/2012 10:43:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

funniest thing since “Newt Judges You”


45 posted on 05/01/2012 10:45:36 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: NeoCaveman

That is absolutely hilarious-I sent the link to my cub-she thinks Paul Ryan is hot, especially his eyes...


46 posted on 05/01/2012 10:56:15 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw hard line"...)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; NeoCaveman

I totally agree-Sean Connery is James Bond I fondly watched in the movies-the others sort of pale beside him.


47 posted on 05/01/2012 11:01:55 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw hard line"...)
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To: SoothingDave

NTBCW the ululage associated with certain groups who celebrate when evil things happen to America & Israel.

48 posted on 05/01/2012 11:14:12 AM PDT by mikrofon (Who coincidentally also suffer from an ullage in the cranial cavity...)
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To: xsmommy

I was just talking to the guy I work for about a bid and he said let’s have a really good laugh at a horndog we both know and I said sure. He showed me a place where lounge lizards congregate along with skank females, and I saw some of the most outrageous and unprintable back-and-forth ever, and it was funny. All either of us could think of was:

“You let me violate you, you let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate you, you let me complicate you...”

Some people have no shame...


49 posted on 05/01/2012 11:30:45 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw hard line"...)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

And the writer of “Coupling,” Steven Moffat wrote or executive produced many of the new Doctor Who’s.


50 posted on 05/01/2012 11:36:37 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Texan5

“help me. I’m broke upon my insides.
help me. I ain’t got no soul to sell.”


51 posted on 05/01/2012 12:19:54 PM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: NeoCaveman

“Help me the only thing that works for me,
help me get away from myself”-and the chorus is mostly unprintable...

I like NIN though-the song seemed so appropriate for the angst-y self centered stuff we saw going on there...


52 posted on 05/01/2012 3:11:29 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw hard line"...)
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To: NeoCaveman

Not me, but I do follow him on Twitter.


53 posted on 05/01/2012 6:25:42 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave

By the by, we had a marathon session of Downton Abbey season 2 today since it was due at the library and it was fantastic! Lots of twists and turns, great dialogue and acting, you’re sure to love it.


54 posted on 05/01/2012 6:28:24 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave

I wouldn’t call them ullage. These people are the dregs:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2878785/posts


55 posted on 05/01/2012 6:55:09 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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