;Posted on 05/08/2015 5:07:58 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Word For The Day, May 8, 2015— anathema
;anathema
noun, plural anathemas.
1. a person or thing detested or loathed: That subject is anathema to him.
2. a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction.
3. a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication.
4. any imprecation of divine punishment.
5. a curse; execration.
Origin: 1520-30; < Latin < Greek: a thing accursed, devoted to evil, orig. devoted, equivalent to ana (ti) thé (nai) to set up + -ma noun suffix Related forms
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I sing very poorly. And have been prohibited from playing music ever since Sister Bernadette took the triangle away from me in 4th grade. My first sgt agreed - Told me never to sing his National Anathema ever again, since I was so far out of tune.
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execration
Has a nice ring to it.
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Along with the Koch Bros.
We had a good example of that in our personal life this week. A couple from San Diego (former business colleagues of my husband) that we had not seen in 45 years imposed their presence upon us this week. We'd exchanged Christmas cards over the years and a few phone calls on business between the men. My husband was really looking forward to this visit -- renewing old times.
Not only did we find that they had gone hard left on us, the man was now taking credit for one of my husband's patents! And they hate the Koch Bros. and don't approve of Scott Walker (our beloved governor) because the NEA doesn't like him. And they were late, to boot!
This couple is now anathema to us, and we came to that conclusion independently. The evening was interminable!
I trust your hospitality exemplified the disdain in which those who deceive, cheat and lie are held. If they did not leave chagrined they were not paying attention.
Wow, that way trumps my story. My relatives drew mustaches and devil horns on all my pictures of Reagan that I had. Guess how old they are - 58!
Let the electorate shower anathema upon progressives everywhere.
I have to admit that our hospitality was not up to our usual standard. We didn’t overtly insult them, although they insulted us — unwittingly, I’m sure.
They have developed closed minds and tin ears over the years. That’s what California will do to you. And a posh retirement financed by the California State Teacher’s Assn while your business runs on government grants. Somehow the risk of running your own business isn’t quite the same when you are risking a government grant vs risking your own money and you are supported by your wife’s fat retirement! I know how much she takes in because I managed my mother’s estate until a year ago and saw the checks that those “poor” teachers got each month.
The best part of the whole evening is that I’m usually the skeptic and my husband is able to overlook anything. This time, my husband picked up on all the little remarks.
Taking credit for my husband’s patent was the cherry on top of the sundae! Yes, this man was given credit for a small part of the invention (at my husband’s insistence), but my husband holds the patent on the whole machine and has defended it in court (and won). My husband signed off on every drawing, sold 15 of them (just a start to a multimillion $$$ sales effort) and installed the first 5 or 6 machines. This pretender was nowhere around when all that happened and doesn’t even really understand how this equipment works. We did haul out pictures of my husband running tests on the machine and his picture on the cover of the company’s annual report. Our guest said that he had some pictures, butt he “wasn’t in them”. Do you think there was a reason?
Before anybody thinks that my husband is Rockefeller, he got $100 for signing over the patent rights to his company (an employment requirement.) I think his collegue got $25 for his small contribution. The invention is still used on every deep water oil rig in the world and has earned millions for the company. This invention opened the North Sea to drilling and other people took home all of the profits.
I had a guest who wrote “Flush” across the cover of a Rush Limbaugh book on my coffee table once. “Flush Rush”. They’ve never been invited back.
Your husband is a smart man. My stepfather worked for a rubber company and invented small parts for Ford vehicles, but nothing as grand as that.
Whoa that sounds nightmarish!
The best part of it is that after they left, we looked at each other, and my husband who usually overlooks any slight said, “I don’t care if I never see them again!”
I didn’t have to say a word.
These folks were here because they were on their way to their grandson’s graduation from law school and had stopped to see a (now grown up) woman in our little town who had lived with them as an exchange student many years ago. She is now married to one of the prominent farmers in this area. They just dropped us an email and invited themselves over unexpectedly.
We’ve lived here nearly 30 years, but our guests felt compelled to tell us everything about our town and our county on the basis of a 2 day tour by this lady and her various relatives. It just seemed impertinent for a couple of Californians (who haven’t managed their state and their environment very well) to preach at us about how we should manage ours!
It was one thing after the other. At the end, we just burst out laughing after they driven away.
My husband wants to strike them from the Christmas card list, but I’m thinking that they are deserving of one of our “spoof” Christmas letters. We could wax on about forming an alliance with the Koch Bros., suing the EPA, starting a slurry coal pipeline, slaughtering a cow, etc.
The best part of the evening was at our house before we went out to dinner (which we paid for — no arguing about splitting the check). She was asking about my grass and how much I had to water (never). She didn’t believe that I mowed all of it. At that point, 8 deer came scampering across the back yard and came very close to the house. They stopped to nibble the dandelions that the mower had missed on our first mowing. The deer left and 4 huge wild turkeys came strolling by.
These wild animals never perform on cue, or in such abundance. Our guests were really knocked back about that.
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