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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: secret garden

NO idea, i thought it was a male Biblical name. but she’s pretty and manages to carry it off.


81 posted on 01/07/2014 8:12:34 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

would be tougher if she was a mannish looking bull dyke.


82 posted on 01/07/2014 8:12:59 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: NeoCaveman

Nicely done...however I think that is a Texans joke


83 posted on 01/07/2014 8:22:46 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
The drive time radio guys were talking about these this AM. OMG i would LOOOOOVE to have these! They are apparently extremely rare, someone said that Rehnquist is going for $5,000 on ebay. Coolest thing since the president Pez dispensers, which was the most desirable gift at our ofc gift exchange and it was snatched out from under me! i am still bitter.
84 posted on 01/07/2014 8:49:20 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Of course not.....which is the other part of why I refrained ;-)


85 posted on 01/07/2014 8:52:29 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: hobbes1

You mean as in quoting Streisand songs?


86 posted on 01/07/2014 8:54:13 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: xsmommy

87 posted on 01/07/2014 9:05:57 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
This sounds like a nightmare.
88 posted on 01/07/2014 9:11:24 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: xsmommy

How funny!


89 posted on 01/07/2014 9:11:29 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: secret garden

it certainly does. you would want to be firm with the guy but worried that he would go off and do something horrible.


90 posted on 01/07/2014 9:16:50 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

We had a strange situation yesterday. My husband called the limo service that we generally use for the airport. He had been calling several limo services until he found our regular ride. A lady answered and he said he’d call back, once he located tham because he wanted to get his tickets to the phone.

When he called back, a man answered who had the gravelly voice of our regular driver. My husband, startled, so “I was just talking to your wife...” and the man blew up on the phone babbling about “How do you know my wife, why were you talking to her, my wife doesn’t work for the company, oh, the dispatcher, why do you think my wife is the disipatcher, are you stalking her, I’m going to report this number to the police and you can talk to them.”

My husband finally said forget it and hung up. This morning he made the reservation, and I sure hope we don’t get this driver. I’ve only had 2 from this company, and I hope they send the other one.


91 posted on 01/07/2014 9:24:33 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

OMG that is weird!


92 posted on 01/07/2014 9:29:39 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Yes it is. I’m a little worried about riding with this guy, or having him pick us up late at the airport in 2 weeks.


93 posted on 01/07/2014 9:32:34 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

well hopefully you won’t have to deal with him, but certainly i hope that he would respond to calm and reason ie; proclaming no interest in him or his wife and only wanting a ride to the airport, for starters!


94 posted on 01/07/2014 9:34:46 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Dana is a ditz. Cannot stomach her at all. Quit watching the show long ago. Unfollowed her on twitter.


95 posted on 01/07/2014 9:36:56 AM PST by tioga (Wise men still seek Him.)
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To: xsmommy

He wouldn’t let my husband get a word in edgewise. He just went on this aggressive, threatening rant. I suppose he never called the police, because we never heard from them.


96 posted on 01/07/2014 9:38:19 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: tioga

I agree. At first I liked her — mostly because of her association with Bush. But, I’ve found her to be self centered and tiresome.

I started disliking her when she said one day that she didn’t like children. The end of it, hoever, came when she told some stupid story about herself trailing toilet paper down the street that was caught in the waistband of her pants.

TMI!


97 posted on 01/07/2014 9:41:34 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Well have the police on speed dial and you call them if he starts acting loony, should you get him!


98 posted on 01/07/2014 9:43:07 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: afraidfortherepublic

LOL, that happened to us once..we were in a Sears, and there was a guy in a Red Shirt and Khakis and we said, “excuse me, can we ask” and the guy wigged, screaming I do not effing work here” and stormed off....


99 posted on 01/07/2014 9:44:11 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

Hardly Ribald...lol. Ghey maybe..but it was my moms preferred music, lol


100 posted on 01/07/2014 9:45:46 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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