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Word For The Day, Wednesday, June 12, 2013-- billingsgate
Posted on 06/12/2013 4:40:09 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, June 12, 2013-- billingsgate
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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".
billingsgate [bil-ingz-geyt]
hear it pronounced
noun
coarsely or vulgarly abusive language.
Origin: 164555; orig. the kind of speech often heard at Billingsgate, a London fish market at the gate of the same name
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Each time I hear Juan Williams or some other liberal sycophant excuse the Obama Administrations actions on Benghazi-gate or IRS-gate or NSA-gate, a spew of billingsgate emerges from my mouth.
To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...
Good morning, early birds! Let’s see home homework, please.
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:42:27 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
See your own #$($ing homework!
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Barbara Billingsgate spoke jive.
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:50:48 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: SoothingDave
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:53:11 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Michelle Obama displays all of the elegance of a Billingsgate fish-wife.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:53:35 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: cripplecreek
A++
She was the translator for Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:54:42 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
That’s one gate I’d like to lock up for good...
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:54:49 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: ConorMacNessa
A++
Michelle's vapid followers, like those who idolize Hillary, would be shocked to hear their language during discussions with their respective (not "respectable") husbands.
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:58:07 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:59:27 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
That’s better than being Dopey.
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:00:37 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
My mailbox is my billingsgate.
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:22:21 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(The universe generally responds poorly to any attempt to draw attention to its numerous flaws.)
To: NicknamedBob
A++
Is that what comes out of your mouth when you see the bills?
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:23:35 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Seems the only way left to describe that Despot-in-Chief is using the billingsgate vernacular that my folks forbade in their household.
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:26:37 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
"Is that what comes out of your mouth when you see the bills?" Yep. It's the "curse of human events".
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:30:09 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(The universe generally responds poorly to any attempt to draw attention to its numerous flaws.)
To: theDentist
A++
Four-letter words, hyphenated words, billingsgate. No other way to describe these tyrants.
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:49:00 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: NicknamedBob
Some old-time comedian used to say:
My wife’s credit card was stolen. I didn’t report it to the police because the crook spends less than she does.
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:50:44 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
06/12/2013 6:23:08 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
To: NeoCaveman
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posted on
06/12/2013 6:37:41 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Barabara Billingsgate
Tony Dow
and, Jerry Mathers as The Beaver
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