Posted on 11/14/2013 4:39:32 AM PST by secret garden
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".
mountebank \ˈmau̇n-ti-ˌbaŋk\ noun
1. a person who sells quack medicines from a platform
2. a boastful unscrupulous pretender : charlatan
Example sentences:
In the more open spaces, jugglers and mountebanks, usually accompanied by performing animals, went through all sorts of gambols and antics.
—Lewis Spence
Swindlers and mountebanks throng hither, adroit thieves creep stealthily about, all Indian customs and fashions are represented, all castes jostle each other.
—Karl Ritter Van Scherzer
Etymology:
Italian montimbanco, from montare to mount + in in, on +banco, banca bench. First Known Use: 1577. Mountebank, pronounced "MOUN-tih-bank," has an interesting origin, in the Italian phrase "monta in banco." It describes a "doctor" who would "mount a bench" in the marketplace. Standing a bit higher than the crowd enabled people to hear his sales pitch and see the potions and powders he claimed were medical cures that never failed — claims as bogus as his credentials. A mountebank is a fast-talking crook pretending to be an expert.
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 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!
The TEA Party was right all along when they claimed Lord mountebankin’ Owe-bama was a liar about “you can keep your plan” and “You’ll save $2500”
WaPo 'JournOlist' Dana Mountebank is one of many milbanks
helping push the snake oil from this Administration ...
LOL.
Gotta love little kids.
As long as the older kids weren’t affronted. LOL
It was 29 just after first light this morning, and there was some wilted vegetation up in the woods-but Indian summer is coming over the weekend, they say...
The mountebank and his bunch
Scurried, but found no fix
For their website disaster-
But they’d run out of tricks
As the cancellations bring
An avalanche of complaint,
Obamacare has been covered
With colossal failure paint
His minions and rats in DC
Are lining up to jump ship-
A Titanic re-enactment wasn’t
In the ticket price of this trip...
affronted? they are my kids and do what i say! they understood the conundrum of the not enough chairs and i wanted to avoid the situation where the parents were stuck ministering to their kids while everyone else ate. their parents prepared their plates for them and then came to the dining room to eat. Neve didn’t even eat a morsel of food, bc she had had several fistfuls of skittles before dinner and was on them like CRACK thereafter. Mirabelle cleaned her plate, and made sure that it was known that Neve didn’t eat ANY of her dinner.
This definition:
2. a boastful unscrupulous pretender : charlatan
reminds me of Sen. Joe Manchin ...
I always turn ON a faucet to drip slowly inside when it freezes to keep the pipes from freezing-there is always at least some water in a pipe, unless you turn off all water, and turn on every faucet until no more water comes out. I forgot to drip the water one night when we first moved here-it got down to 22, and a pipe to the pump burst-it was a bitch to find the break and repair it, too...
Hilaria? That has got to be a joke-but maybe they are birds of a feather...
we just turn off the water to the outside and haven’t had any issues with a burst pipe since doing so, thank the Lord!
Sounds like a very cool trip, no pun intended. Lots of knitters go there and post pics and it’s rustic but gorgeous.
i was asking if she was going to have reindeer steaks! she said well better that than WHALE, which does not sound the slightest bit appealing!
That does sound like fun. Adult conversation is such a treat when you have little ones. I’m glad you could provide a nice night out for them where they didn’t have to pay for a sitter and worry about the girls.
A for you! He has been outed on one of the possible things he could be outed for, based on his history.
Dana is a girls name. That’s as snarky as I’ll go. A+ for you, F- for the mouthpiece.
I put those thick foam coats on the outside faucets in winter, to keep them unfrozen, too.
I’m trying to figure out why you guys are supposed to turn off water while we drip ours here-they even remind us on the local weather forecasts to drip at least one faucet when it freezes. Most water pipes are in concrete slab foundations here-even pier and beam ones have dense urethane blown and packed a foot or so around everything under the sub-floor, then sealed on the outside with housewrap-maybe that is the difference?
Yes, I let all faucets in the house drip a bit, but again only when it is near zero outside.
We are talking about two different things.
When it gets really cold, it is recommended that you keep some water flowing in all pipes inside your house. To prevent a frozen pipe in the basement or other poorly heated area near an outside wall.
What we were originally talking about it an outside spigot, for attaching a hose. Part of preparing for winter is emptying the hose and putting it away. And then shutting off the outside spigot from the valve inside the house that is put there just for this reason.
You then drain what water is left in the pipe from the inside valve to the outside spigot.
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