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Word for the Day - anathema

Posted on 05/08/2015 5:07:58 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell

Word For The Day, May 8, 2015— anathema

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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".

anathema

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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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To: NicknamedBob

I suppose I am all in.


21 posted on 05/08/2015 6:00:07 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: MrB

As in frozen in time.


22 posted on 05/08/2015 6:03:17 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: chajin

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23 posted on 05/08/2015 6:04:30 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

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.


24 posted on 05/08/2015 6:19:20 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Not often we grant this award. It seems appropriate somehow.

Mountain ballad award:


25 posted on 05/08/2015 6:29:52 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

execration

Has a nice ring to it.


26 posted on 05/08/2015 7:04:22 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: tacticalogic

PERFECT!!


27 posted on 05/08/2015 7:20:57 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Louis Foxwell
Britain voted the Labour party to be anathema, Conservatives win decisively. would that the US shows the same perspicacity in the next election.
28 posted on 05/08/2015 7:30:34 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Louis Foxwell

Gloooooooooom!
Despaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir and agooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnny on me!


29 posted on 05/08/2015 7:39:34 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: gattaca; Louis Foxwell
Fox News is anathema to the left.

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!

30 posted on 05/08/2015 7:49:09 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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.


31 posted on 05/08/2015 8:12:14 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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!


32 posted on 05/08/2015 8:22:56 AM PDT by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Poor you. Let's throw a party.


33 posted on 05/08/2015 8:31:54 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: xsmommy

Let the electorate shower anathema upon progressives everywhere.


34 posted on 05/08/2015 8:33:17 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

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.


35 posted on 05/08/2015 8:51:24 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: gattaca

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.


36 posted on 05/08/2015 8:54:34 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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.


37 posted on 05/08/2015 8:59:36 AM PDT by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Whoa that sounds nightmarish!


38 posted on 05/08/2015 9:04:56 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

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.


39 posted on 05/08/2015 9:28:12 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Louis Foxwell
With regards to Obama and "Americana", the man holds such traditions as anathema ...
40 posted on 05/08/2015 9:51:52 AM PDT by mikrofon (Foxwell Friday BUMP)
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