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Word for the Day, FRiday, January 11, 2013 - Carom
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Posted on 01/11/2013 4:48:52 AM PST 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”.

Carom

Verb

v. caromed, caroming, caroms v.intr.

    1. To collide and rebound; glance: The car caromed off the guardrail into the ditch.
    2. To make a carom, as in billiards.

v.tr. To cause to carom.


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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To: mikrofon

1st reference to the other meaning. I didn’t include it, but you caught it anyway. A+++


41 posted on 01/11/2013 9:04:49 AM PST by tioga
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To: verga

students? you are a teacher? A+++ our classroom must have the students caroming right out the door. it’s awfully quiet in here.


42 posted on 01/11/2013 9:06:32 AM PST by tioga
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To: VRWCmember; tioga; SoothingDave; secret garden; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
oh EEEELda, we barely knew ye.

let me just say that God is good. I was checking my work email this AM from the hair salon when i discovered that the 6th Cir has just this morning issued a decision in the case i was supposed to argue next Thursday. I won and the decision is published! but do you think they could have let me know a bit sooner that they didn't require my presence in Cincinnati next thursday? my office is now cancelling all the travel etc. I just had the first moot court yesterday too. in any event, it's a GREAT day!

43 posted on 01/11/2013 9:15:32 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: CholeraJoe; secret garden

BloomingIdiot is dictating to city hospitals how many pain killers they can have to prescribe to patients. OMGosh, is there anything this arrogant little twit doesn’t want control of. I can’t believe he wasn’t voted out of office on his @ss.


44 posted on 01/11/2013 9:16:22 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga

I am a shop teacher, so they are using sharp tools some of which spin at high rates of speed.


45 posted on 01/11/2013 9:17:37 AM PST by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: tioga

They used to have good chicken noodle soup about 2 years ago. Now it’s just water with celery in it, blech. You can read the paper through it.


46 posted on 01/11/2013 9:20:56 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: xsmommy

Good for you!

Still, it’s fun to get out of the office every once in a while.

This is the first time I’ve been home in January since 2009.


47 posted on 01/11/2013 9:23:34 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

Awesome! Congratulations! I went to the funeral yesterday..... surprisingly, I came out of it feeling joy. Bubbling with it, in fact. Jane was always joyful and bubbly....I figure I am getting her dose now as she is in heaven and doesn’t need it. Amazing group of grandchildren she has...all articulate and well spoken. One prayed with us for that very thing. That we emulate her grandmother and keep the joy and prayers going in our faith community. I still tear up, but am not feeling depressed.

For the rest of class: Saturday while on call, I was dispatched to my friend’s house for a woman not breathing. She had died in her sleep, I was the first one there from the squad. It hit me hard. I was supposed to stop and see her before Christmas and never made it. She was a terrific friend and neighbor. I will miss her.


48 posted on 01/11/2013 9:25:05 AM PST by tioga
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To: SoothingDave

yes, i am a bit disappointed. i had the moot court yesterday and it went very well, i was very prepared for it. i will be getting out of the office on the 18th-22d though, because xshub and i are going to Grand Cayman. He was intent on “getting out of Dodge” for the inauguration, and he hasn’t had a vacation in a very long time. Only 4 days but it should be nice.


49 posted on 01/11/2013 9:27:07 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

I usually get the tomato. If I want chicken soup I know the local places that make homemade soups. There is no comparison.


50 posted on 01/11/2013 9:27:54 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga

I know that had to be very hard. I am glad the funeral was uplifting in a way.


51 posted on 01/11/2013 9:38:43 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: verga

Make sure they remove their neckties first!


52 posted on 01/11/2013 9:50:05 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

Congrats!


53 posted on 01/11/2013 9:54:23 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

thanks!


54 posted on 01/11/2013 9:55:58 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: tioga

Is there a difference between carom and careen? And for a marginal note, people in Australia and Britain use “career” the way we would use careen, or carom, whereas we use the word career to mean job, or life’s pursuit. I got into a hot argument with an Aussie about that years ago.


55 posted on 01/11/2013 9:57:25 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Careen Abdul-Jabar played for the Lakers.


56 posted on 01/11/2013 10:10:07 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

http://news.yahoo.com/caiman-found-guarding-pot-stash-calif-home-200616168.html


57 posted on 01/11/2013 10:13:56 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
Careen Abdul-Jabar played for the Lakers.

You must have him confused for Roger Murdock, airplane pilot


58 posted on 01/11/2013 10:16:07 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: tioga; a fool in paradise
Leslie Carom


59 posted on 01/11/2013 10:17:11 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: xsmommy

Congrats.

Although now you’ll miss out on the Skykline chili.


60 posted on 01/11/2013 10:22:48 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn)
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