Posted on 09/27/2013 5:58:32 AM PDT 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”.
Plangent
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.
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
Mike: I’d like you to exit your vehicle and start walking toward us.
Walter: And then what? I’m gonna need some...some kind of assurance.
Mike: I assure you I could kill you from way over here if it makes you feel any better.
Out here, that rancher would be a bit less polite to someone clueless-”Idiota-hay mierda en el agua de vaca-no te lo tomes”
And “Use both hands, pendejo”...
Thank you!
Thanks-and I actually like Ross-since my favorite hole-in-the-wall, Indian-owned denim shop on the west side near LAFB closed, I get my jeans and work shirts there (cheap)-but if I were working in the public eye, that would have to change...
In college days, a lot of us worked as cocktail waitresses at upscale clubs for tourists and the military-the tips were great-one of my classmates would bring a different color and style wig almost every day to wear on her shift, and put it on in the changing room-first grifter reminds me of that girl...
when I was on a job site in Chile, there was a sign near a sink that said “Agua no potable, no beber.”
Apparently, that wasn’t understood by some of the foreigners there, cause they added “Don’t drink the water” in English.
I would think “no potable” gets the message across pretty well.
You’d think so-apparently there is a large group of people who have never noticed the words “non-potable water” on the side of the water trucks on a road construction site as they drove by...
On one of our history-and-ruins-investigating trips to Mexico, my 1st husband, kid and I stopped to gas up the Suburban at a tiny station up in the mountains in Michoacán. There was a sign on a retaining wall by the restrooms that said “por favor no urinas en el muro-pedir la llave”-with a lot of stains around it that prove people would rather do that than ask for the key...
Walter.....you’ve been busy.
I was up all night cleaning up after you.
I need my sleep.
I prefer to not make the General Urko in Drag joke.
I was at a corporate training session, topic unimportant, but the speaker couldn’t be more emphatic when he told us: “You’ve to plant, gents!”
Or they have never seen Jeopardy. Potent Potables.
I like Animal sounds.
This is the sound a doggy makes.
I’m guilty of not catching that reference-I’ve never been much on watching Jeopardy-but I’ve always paid attention to the signs on the water trucks...
The gringos get excited when they recognize a word in Spanish that corresponds to English ; )
vete pa’ carajo
; )
Gringo.
Yes, but he hinted at it last week.
Thats horrible. Poor guy.
I just saw that episode last night. Walt’s a funny guy in the first season.
Sad indeed-a loved pet is a dear friend-and just as hard to lose, and irreplaceable, at least as far as I’m concerned.
There is an obscure classic rock station only audible in calm but rainy weather, like today. Since I like it, I went searching the FM universe a couple hours ago, found it, and heard this;
“Now that I’m alone again,
I can’t stop breaking down again,
The simplest things set me off again
And take me to that place
Where I can’t find my brave face
Where I can’t find my brave face
My brave, my brave, my brave face”...
I think that station must be in Austin or some other weird place-the signal faded after awhile, but not before I heard a lot of stuff that no other station plays..
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