Word for the Day, Monday, June 3, 2013-- effrontery

6/3/13 | xs

[xsmommy]

Word For The Day, Monday, June 3, 2013

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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”.

effrontery; noun shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity: She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples. 2. an act or instance of this.

Etymology: from French effronterie, from Old French esfront barefaced, shameless, from Late Latin effrons, literally: putting forth one's forehead; see front ]

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....

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Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish

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

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

WFB’s attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!

[SoothingDave]

If you buy any car with a manual now, it will not start unless you have the clutch pushed in. Which meana you cant start it by rolling downhill and popping it.

More govt safety for you. Bu the people who brought you electonic valve stems so your car can tell you the tires are low.

[secret garden]

As I said, I do it all the time.

[tioga]

Huh, I get the pic from Thursday’s class every FRiday. LOL

[Texan5]

That Toyota truck was one of the most reliable vehicles I’ve ever owned-it took me safely to jobsites over some of the scariest roads in this part of the state, with no problems. I was livid when my friend destroyed it-I’d just bought new Bridgestone duelers for it, and had a new pipe bumper and brushguard put on the front, and she killed it...

[afraidfortherepublic]

Heck! The Baylor students called Waco Wacko when my daughter was there!

My daughter had sorority sisters at Baylor who didn’t know that Catholics were Christians. No kidding. They just knew that you weren’t supposed to date them. BUt, she got a good education there and a nice scholarship the last 2 years.

They were selling tee shirts in the hotel gift shop at my son’s graduation that proclaimed “Happiness is Lubbock in my rear view mirror...” TT was the only university that my kids attended that required that parents attend an orientation before school started. We had to stay in one of the dorms, while our son stayed in a different dorm. It was a fun weekend. The cicadas came out that weekend and made a horrid ruckus!

TT was also the only university (other than the Uiversity of Florida where my youngest son got his PhD) where my child’s teachers actually sought us out at graduation and acted as if they really knew him.

And Austin? Austin is Austin — the Berkeley of TX.

We moved to TX when the kids ranged between 13 and 8. We lived there 10 years, and only my 2nd oldest emerged with an accent. I blame (credit) his 5 years in Lubbock. The accent has faded somewhat over the years, but you can still detect it. He used to pronounce “flight” like “flat”. He lived in TX for about 10 years after college and married a woman from TN with her own accent. They now live in KS. LOL.

[Texan5]

Another fine reason not to buy a new car-I suspect that sincer you can’t roll the car and pop the clutch to start it, they mean for you to call a nice, expensive towtruck to take it to a nice expensive dealer/shop-screw that noise-I’ll keep my old vehicles...

[secret garden]

AAA is the way to go.

[SoothingDave]

New cars come with roadside assistance. At least for a while.

[Texan5]

I’ve had towing with my auto insurance company for quite awhile-it turned out to be less expensive.

[Texan5]

For awhile until I actually needed it was how it turned out with the new truck-it had expired right before the truck fell into a pothole in the rain and the axle broke in BF Egypt. I looked into getting it from USAA right after that, and I’ve had it ever since...

[Texan5]

Here it is said more like “flaight”. Even if the accent gets lost when living someplace else, it always has returned as soon as I got home again...

I still like Lubbock-but I also like San Angelo, Sonora and Amarillo-most people don’t care for those, either...

Austin is an insane asylum-I have relatives who work there.

I’ve never figured out what is “wacko” about Waco, aside from some strange people...

[xsmommy]

no, i thought i wanted to see it, but i thought the nuttiness would make me uncomfortable. And i just don’t want to see things that i know are going to make me bawl and bawl.

[xsmommy]

meant to ask you guys if you had heard of a murder in Grapevine TX back i think in 2005? I figure Vast is the one most likely to have heard about it, since it wasn't far from him there. We were totally unaware of it at the time, but xshub came across clippings about it at his dad's house, since he's been going through his stuff to get the house ready to sell. Tracey Frame was the name of the murderess, Secrets and Lies on Grapevine Lake was apparently on 48 hours. well the reason for xsFIL's interest in this farflung murder mystery is that the first wife of the murder victim, and mother of the victim's son, Donna Lella, was xshub's next door neighbor growing up! Heck, i met her, she came to our wedding! at some point the entire family moved to Colleysville, TX, and when xshub's mom passed, no one kept in touch with them any longer. So this was quite interesting for us to come across. We watched some snippets of the Snapped thing about it, we weren't going to pay $ for it but we got enough from it to see she was convicted and conviction was upheld on appeal. Was curious if any of you were familiar with the story. Donna Lella is apparently a realtor, also, in South Lake. What a horrible thing for her to have gone through, and even more so for her son, to have had his father murdered.

[xsmommy]

guess it was actually 2002 that the murder took place.

[Texan5]

Wow-talk about a coincidence-that is not something you hear every day. I don’t usually watch those shows, so I don’t remember hearing anything about it, but it sounds interesting.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Well, my mother heard it as “flat”. She really didn’t understand him because she thought he lived in the dorm. LOL.

I just had a horrible experience. Because I’m still recuperatinng from my knee surgery, my grass has gotten away from me. There are areas that have not had their first mowing. I was attacking the front pasture (we have no animals to chew it down) moving slowly and with the mower set at its highest point. The grass was about 24-36 in. All of a sudden I heard *crunch* and stopped instantly. I turned around to see what I’d hit. I ran over a tiny fawn and killed it. My husband got the job of cleaning up, and he says it weighed about 7 lbs.

I am just horrified. I don’t think I’ll ever enjoy mowing the lawn again. I don’t understand why that doe didn’t leave her baby under a bush of which we have plenty. Why out in the middle of the field?

[SoothingDave]

That’s horrifying!

But does anyone really “enjoy” mowing the lawn?

[Texan5]

I’m so sorry-I have 7 ft game fencing to avoid just what you describe. Deer are everywhere here and they are tame because we all feed them every day...

[Texan5]

I will have to cut grass as soon as everything dries out-it is getting tall, and I will be kicking and walking over everything first to make sure even a rabbit hasn’t made a nest anywhere.

Since everything is too rocky and uneven for a mower, I cut it all with a grass hog trimmer, so I have a good bit of control-it is a kickass upper body workout, too...

[secret garden]

I am sorry. They do leave them out in the open, often, and they blend right into their surroundings.