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Word for the Day, Tuesday January 7, 2013

Posted on 01/07/2014 5:03:06 AM PST by SoothingDave

Word For The Day, Tuesday January 7, 2013



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".

vortex [vawr-teks]

-n, pl vortices, vortexes
1.a whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.
2.a whirling mass of air, especially one in the form of a visible column or spiral, as a tornado.
3.a whirling mass of fire, flame, etc.
4.a state of affairs likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force, etc.
5.something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it:

[1645–55; < Latin, variant of vertex vertex]


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To: hobbes1

Maybe Dana Loesh instead of Perino.


61 posted on 01/07/2014 7:21:08 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: xsmommy

Thanks.


62 posted on 01/07/2014 7:24:21 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree ( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: xsmommy

That’s the conundrum about Juliet, she has a real good sense of humour, so...It seems to preclude straight out Bitch...and her spouses have seemed to be straight up guys,,...her party girl persona leads me to think you may be right...


63 posted on 01/07/2014 7:28:47 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: secret garden

And maybe I’ll hit the pick 6 this week..lol


64 posted on 01/07/2014 7:29:29 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: xsmommy

They said that, after she was dumped,

And given Neo’s observation, one wonders if she’ll be brought back quietly..not to Red Bills staff, but...somewhere in the Administration, like Springer, the comptroller, so they can clean her up for future use......

As Neo pointed out, her list of worked fors didn’t happen by accident, and you keep tools in a tool box for future use, even when they need a little WD40


65 posted on 01/07/2014 7:32:48 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: secret garden

Jessie Watters and Jedidiah Bila sat in over the holidays and both did ok, i though.


66 posted on 01/07/2014 7:34:13 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1

of course whores have great personalities!


67 posted on 01/07/2014 7:35:09 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1

it also said she wanted to be involved 2016 stuff.


68 posted on 01/07/2014 7:35:31 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

She’ll land on her feet, or back.


69 posted on 01/07/2014 7:36:34 AM PST by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: hobbes1
And maybe I’ll hit the pick 6 this week..lol

Pick six?

I thought the Jets season was over :)

70 posted on 01/07/2014 7:46:34 AM PST by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: NeoCaveman

do you know where they pull jury duty from? its weird, i was just talking to a guy in my ofc. My friend Maia is off for jury duty this week, she lives in DC. this guy lives in Howard Co. MD and he has jury duty next week. xshub and i have lived in VA since 1980 and neither one of us has ever been called for jury duty.


71 posted on 01/07/2014 7:50:05 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I think it goes from a pool of registered voters. I’ve been called twice but not since 2002 or so.

Although I was once told, not by anyone official, that I’d never get called now because I know everybody from politics. Wether that is true or not, who knows.


72 posted on 01/07/2014 7:57:07 AM PST by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: NeoCaveman

Odd you memtion that while I am re-watching the Jests-Brownies game. ;)

I said, back in June that week 2 against the Patsies would determine theor playoff chances.

Smith throws 3 picks, in FG range, in a 3 pt game, and they go 8-8, not 9-7.


73 posted on 01/07/2014 8:05:48 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: xsmommy

I was called for Federal District Court jury duty once, but never for the state courts in my home county. My wife served once on a civil trial in our county.


74 posted on 01/07/2014 8:08:50 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

Since the classroom is more staid than in the past I’ll forgo the obvious ribald joke...about how entertaining our gender challenged classmates are... ;-)


75 posted on 01/07/2014 8:08:51 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: SoothingDave
I think the idea wasn't so much that Mrs. Crowley cant' afford a butler, but in her grief she was angry and sad that she doesn't NEED a butler. You are correct though - you would think, since they have mentioned before not allowing someone to lose a job - that they could have found something for him.
76 posted on 01/07/2014 8:09:44 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: hobbes1

I LOVE Hot Tub Time Machine - not obscure around here!


77 posted on 01/07/2014 8:10:29 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: tioga

Oh my gosh adorable!


78 posted on 01/07/2014 8:10:54 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: xsmommy

Why would someone name a baby girl Jedidiah?


79 posted on 01/07/2014 8:11:37 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: hobbes1

whores have great personalities doesn’t mean that anyone with a great personality is a whore.


80 posted on 01/07/2014 8:11:42 AM PST by xsmommy
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