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Word for the Day, FRiday, May 25, 2012 - Afflatus
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Posted on 05/25/2012 6:29:45 AM PDT by tioga


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”.

Afflatus

Noun

    A strong creative impulse, especially as a result of divine inspiration.

[Latin affltus, from past participle of afflre, to breathe on : ad-, ad- + flre, to blow; see bhl- in Indo-European roots.]


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....

Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)

Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister

Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate


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The Obama team's afflatus about their candidate's dwindling popularity is racism. A smoke screen of self-delusion
1 posted on 05/25/2012 6:29:48 AM PDT by tioga
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Gabz; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

Get to work, 164 days until we vote Obama out of office. Get busy!


2 posted on 05/25/2012 6:32:24 AM PDT by tioga
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See Daddy THERE IT IS!!! 666!

From Lucianne.com this morning.

3 posted on 05/25/2012 6:34:40 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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Kid will go far. A+++


4 posted on 05/25/2012 6:37:36 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

If you don’t want to experience afflatus,
don’t pass gas near an open flame...


5 posted on 05/25/2012 6:38:00 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: hobbes1

Mine is a bit more subtle...

“Mister President? What does 9... 9... 9... mean?”


6 posted on 05/25/2012 6:39:13 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: tioga
The afflatus of a great statesman like the late President Ronald W. Reagan stands in stark contrast to the efflatus of a hack politician like the Narcissist-in-Chief!





Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

7 posted on 05/25/2012 6:39:35 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: MrB

Ha, ha. A++


8 posted on 05/25/2012 6:46:31 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

I prefer afflatus to flatulence.


9 posted on 05/25/2012 6:49:00 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Yeah, they follow different leaders. A++


10 posted on 05/25/2012 6:49:50 AM PDT by tioga
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Fat Pantload wants us to quit mocking the afflatus he had over the One's speech.
11 posted on 05/25/2012 6:50:33 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: tioga

http://www.lyricstime.com/team-america-world-police-soundtrack-pearl-harbor-sucked-lyrics.html

“I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school”


12 posted on 05/25/2012 6:51:17 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: tioga
Afflatus: What every dictator, Communist and genocidal mass murderer has wanted since 1776
13 posted on 05/25/2012 6:53:20 AM PDT by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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To: tioga

Barry thought that he had an afflatus:
“I’ll apologize, then they won’t hate us!”
So before every king
He would bow, kiss their ring,
But that simply served just to degrade us...


14 posted on 05/25/2012 6:54:06 AM PDT by mikrofon (Afflatulence & Logorrhea)
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Frank: It’s the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day.
Jane: Goodyear?
Frank: No, the worst.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095705/quotes


15 posted on 05/25/2012 6:55:24 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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Then the FPL shouldn’t have said it. A+++


16 posted on 05/25/2012 6:59:33 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Cowman

A++ We are not so easily defeated.


17 posted on 05/25/2012 7:00:51 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

And it is something he’ll never live down.


18 posted on 05/25/2012 7:01:58 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: mikrofon

The clueless wonder will be a one-term wonder soon. A+++


19 posted on 05/25/2012 7:02:18 AM PDT by tioga
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Then the FPL shouldn’t have said it

At least I'm not the only one who hears the voice of my Flexor pollicis longus.

20 posted on 05/25/2012 7:05:24 AM PDT by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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