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Word For The Day, Wednesday, December 5, 2012—bowdlerize

Posted on 12/05/2012 4:10:08 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree

Word For The Day, Wednesday, December 5, 2012—bowdlerize

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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".

bowdlerize [bohd-luh-rahyz, boud-]

hear it pronounced

verb (used with object), bowd•ler•ized, bowd•ler•iz•ing
to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

Origin: 1836, from Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who in 1818 published a notorious expurgated Shakespeare, in which, according to his frontspiece, "nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."

Related forms
bowd•ler•ism, noun.
bowd•ler•i•za•tion, noun.
bowd•ler•iz•er, noun.
un•bowd•ler•ized, adjective.

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.

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




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To: tioga

It’s an analogy to their economic policies, though. Picking winners and losers.


41 posted on 12/05/2012 10:08:07 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Oh, my God, they want to play owl police now? The whole f’in world has gone mad-beam me up, Scotty...


42 posted on 12/05/2012 10:08:54 AM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

Jim Quinn uses that for his radio show (warroom.com) which is based here, but syndicated and on XM. I never knew who sang it.


43 posted on 12/05/2012 10:09:40 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I watched the Five yesterday because I adore Greg Gutfeld and he was back but I lost my mind when beckel said he agreed with plastic puss Costas and Jason Whitlock that if not for guns the thug football player and his baby mamma would be alive. Both Greg and Andrea did an okay job of slapping him flat but not definitively enough. You can’t tell me belcher would not have choked/beaten her to death. I have ZERO TOLERANCE for lib BS at this point. The Five is the only thing ill watch and only bc of GG.


44 posted on 12/05/2012 10:11:38 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Obama excerpts (bolder-I'zed):

"I believe it is in our best interests ..."
"And I know many Americans feel the same way ... "
"I am not going to balance the budget on the backs of ...."
"I ... me ... my ..."

45 posted on 12/05/2012 10:17:06 AM PST by mikrofon (Better off he were Bowdlerized)
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To: xsmommy

I saw the Five yesterday, as well and I loved seeing Beckel get smacked. It appears now that Belcher was totally screwed up, history of domestic abuse, drunken rages, probable prescription drug addiction, etc. Pardon me for casemanager mode, but-why the hell he was not removed from the lineup and therapy not made a condition of his continued employment? Gun control my ass...


46 posted on 12/05/2012 10:25:05 AM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLWx-qNhGuI

Here’s Jim Quinn with a recent bit.


47 posted on 12/05/2012 10:36:44 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

9 points is tempting.

I haven’t talked to my old friend Mo far too long.


48 posted on 12/05/2012 10:38:38 AM PST by NeoCaveman (SMOD 2012)
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To: xsmommy

The people here on FR getting all in a lather about Boehner and his offers to raise revenue seem to not get that the GOP is not in a strong position.

Mark Steyn’s column last weekend about how we want big entitlements and low taxes needs to be read and understood by all. Until we can make the argument for lowering the welfare state, we ought to at least make people pay for what they are demanding.


49 posted on 12/05/2012 10:39:18 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Texan5
I can’t do head in the sand-I’ve tried, but the rebel I’ve always been is still way too alive,

I see the way you walk down the street/Watch the way you shuffle your feet...

50 posted on 12/05/2012 10:55:27 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: tioga
that is LUDICROUS!

So is this!

51 posted on 12/05/2012 10:57:54 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: mikrofon

A+++
Extremely clever use of the Bolder I’s.


52 posted on 12/05/2012 10:59:43 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: SoothingDave

Thanks! He’s right-the majority of have no idea what they vote for, and probably haven’t for at least 30-40 years, because they have not learned the skills of listening, and reading comprehension...


53 posted on 12/05/2012 11:05:29 AM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

The media doesn’t help.


54 posted on 12/05/2012 11:09:21 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

“He’s a rebel and he’ll never ever be any good
He’s a rebel ‘cause he never does what he should”

LMAO! I actually have that on a CD with some other obscure oldies-I liked it when I was 13 or so and had precocious eyes for a gorgeous 17 year old jock who didn’t know I was alive....


55 posted on 12/05/2012 11:17:13 AM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree; tioga

Ludicris-sometimes a stage name just says it all, doesn’t it?


56 posted on 12/05/2012 11:22:22 AM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: SoothingDave

In my idea of a perfect world, the drive-by media needs to be relegated to the status of a sitcom...


57 posted on 12/05/2012 11:26:04 AM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: SoothingDave; TruthShallSetYouFree; xsmommy; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Economic doom with a side of "that's what she said hilarity" you got to see number 6
58 posted on 12/05/2012 11:36:49 AM PST by NeoCaveman (SMOD 2012)
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To: NeoCaveman

Ha! Busy place, is it usually?


59 posted on 12/05/2012 11:39:54 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: NeoCaveman

That typo needs to get Bowdlerized!


60 posted on 12/05/2012 11:43:36 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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