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Word for the Day, Cinco de Mayo - Jeremiad
FRee Dictionary ^ | Thursday | tioga

Posted on 05/05/2016 3:28:47 AM PDT by tioga


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".

Jeremiad

Noun

    A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom.


Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.

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 Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)

Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister

Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate


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To: SoothingDave

I don’t think you want to go there.


21 posted on 05/05/2016 5:58:03 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I’m not gloating. I know it sucks. Still, it is amazing hockey being played all around. And it can turn around.


22 posted on 05/05/2016 6:08:38 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: TomGuy

Awesome.


23 posted on 05/05/2016 6:09:32 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

The whole Book of Jeremiah is a jeremiad! :-)


24 posted on 05/05/2016 6:10:49 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: onona

How about adding a holiday for our Mexican friends called President James K. Polk DAY!


25 posted on 05/05/2016 6:18:04 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: left that other site
A++++ 😉
26 posted on 05/05/2016 6:23:51 AM PDT by tioga
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To: SoothingDave

amazing how every lucky bounce goes the Pens way. xshub commenting on how the pens defense sucks, but we just can’t seem to get around it. I know the other series think that they are in contention, but this really does feel like the finals, doesn’t it?


27 posted on 05/05/2016 6:28:00 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

Thanks! :-)


28 posted on 05/05/2016 7:38:27 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: xsmommy

Hockey is an amazing game because when it works, it looks so effortless; but when players miss a connection on a sure-fire goal, or a goalie makes a miracle save, it looks so darn impossible.

In the playoffs with players diving to try to interrupt every shot, it’s even more frustrating.

When players re-direct a shot on its way to the goal, you know they’re just putting the stick out there and praying. Sometimes the hockey gods answer.


29 posted on 05/05/2016 7:45:45 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

it is amazing, and as xshub likes to point out, hockey is the only sport in which sometimes the best team does NOT win. There is so much more involved than in other sports.


30 posted on 05/05/2016 7:47:35 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave
sad to hear this. I like him.
31 posted on 05/05/2016 9:55:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: left that other site

You rang?


32 posted on 05/05/2016 9:56:30 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: xsmommy

Don’t tell that to the 1969 Colts.


33 posted on 05/05/2016 10:10:52 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

they still alive?


34 posted on 05/05/2016 10:13:12 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Surely some of them are. :-)

Any sport where there are a lot of games can have days where the “best” team doesn’t win. Heck, the “best” baseball team wins only 60% or so of the time.

Football is actually the one where upsets are least likely. And most consequential, since they don’t play series.


35 posted on 05/05/2016 10:15:12 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: little jeremiah

LOL!


36 posted on 05/05/2016 10:16:53 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: tioga

May I suggest a word tioga? “mendacious’’, adjective. To lie, to be routinely untruthful. To say Hillary Clinton is mendacious would be the understatement of the ages.


37 posted on 05/05/2016 11:28:20 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: tioga

“Felix Cinco de Cuatro” ~BHO ca.2009


38 posted on 05/05/2016 12:21:16 PM PDT by mikrofon (Margarita BUMP)
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To: tioga

My family didn’t/doesn’t do anything special for Cinco de Mayo, and we are Hispanic/Latino-I never understood why something that went on in another country and wasn’t earthshaking was a big deal here...

Hillary is not going to change-
She thinks there is some gain
In the same jeremiad speeches
That sound ever more insane

She’s trying to outdo Bernie
She’ll give us all everything
And if we don’t make her queen
We’ll be enslaved by that VRW

She says she’ll fire the miners
And pay them well-but it’s funny
That she hasn’t got a single clue
About where she’d find the money...


39 posted on 05/05/2016 12:38:20 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: tioga
Daniel Horowitz issues an outstanding jeremiad in his assessment of the current election prospects in a piece entitled "Don’t Throw Your Panties at Trump Quite Yet" here:
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/05/trump-antics-have-been-seen-beforeIt's worth a read.
40 posted on 05/05/2016 12:48:59 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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