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Word for the Day, Tuesday June 26, 2012
Posted on 06/26/2012 5:01:20 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, June 26, 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".
gauche [gohsh]
-adj
lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless:
[174555; < French: awkward, left; Middle French, derivative of gauchir to turn, veer < Germanic]
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To: Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; NeoCaveman; ...
To: SoothingDave
I will use the word of the day in a sentence
Pres Obama is full of gauche. Sorry, I just had to
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posted on
06/26/2012 5:05:53 AM PDT
by
blueyon
(The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
To: SoothingDave
slightly off center, thanks.
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posted on
06/26/2012 5:07:09 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: blueyon
Try using it as an adjective.
To: xsmommy
Just a little to the left.
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posted on
06/26/2012 5:18:34 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
To: SoothingDave
The arrogance of the Kenyan-in-Chief is matched only by his gaucherie!
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
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)
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posted on
06/26/2012 5:23:29 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: SoothingDave
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posted on
06/26/2012 5:31:11 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
To: NeoCaveman
To: NeoCaveman
And just a step to the right.
To: SoothingDave; NeoCaveman
xsboy had a
harrowing/sobering experience down at VA tech last weekend. Drove the 4 hours to get there, along with his friend. Got stopped for speeding immediately upon his arrival on the Tech campus. To add insult to injury, the cop said he thought he smelled alcohol in the car and asked him to get out to perform a sobriety test and breathylzer. Which thank the Lord was totally negative. xsboy was OUTRAGED and thankfully did not say to the cop what he said to me on the phone [and which truth be told i might have blurted out to the cop my own self] which was "WHY AREN'T YOU CATCHING MURDERERS DOWN HERE INSTEAD OF STOPPING SOMEONE FOR SPEEDING ON AN EMPTY CAMPUS." It was probably all told a good thing, since it was very scary and alarming to him to be stopped. I know what the cop smelled. His hockey bag was in the car. That thing makes his car smell like a derelict homeless man is living in it. i always think his car smells funky because of it. SO yeah, the jackbooted thugs are out in force in VA.
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posted on
06/26/2012 5:48:54 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
I’m thinking that xsboy was smart not to say, “oh, that smell is just my sweat”... ;^)
To: xsmommy
To: SoothingDave
A gaunt gauche gaucho gnoshed on some gamy gazpacho.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:14:46 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: SoothingDave; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
yes, he was profiled. he could not get over it. i said honey, you have NO experience with campus police, let alone campus police in a college town. they have NOTHING ELSE going on, their mission in life is to bust kids for drinking, they are going to be looking for it, and imagining it even where it isn’t.
oh you know i love to mouth off to a cop and he’s heard me, so i am thankful he didn’t say that about solving murders, bc you know Va Tech is rife with shootings, sawing heads off in the au bon pain etc! we laugh about it all the time, God forgive us.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:15:50 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: blueunicorn6
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:19:02 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
They don’t have police at Syracuse, or he just has no experience with them?
Good thing he didn’t follow your example. ;-)
To: SoothingDave
oh they have them i guess, but it’s a city, not just a university, whereas Blackburg, VaTech is the only game in town. he has no experience with them and basically just doesn’t even know what the function of campus police is.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:52:52 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: SoothingDave; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
and because there’s never a dull moment in our house, xsrisingsenior found out that the boy who was over our house last week and who has been pestering her kind of nonstop for a date etc. is BI. i told my SIL last night and she said Bi-WHAT? i said biSEXUAL what do you think! LOL! so yeah, she’d already decided she didn’t want any part of him and this seals that particular deal!
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:55:22 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy; SoothingDave
Must have been about 25yrs ago now that SU campus had a rapist. Never did hear if they caught him. I was on the campus back that summer. Myself and my young daughter. It was summer, and I was very, very careful.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:58:04 AM PDT
by
tioga
( ABO: Anybody. But. Obama. Coming in November, 2012.)
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