Word For The Day, Monday, 7/1/02

The Verbivores | 7/1/02 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of 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....

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claque \KLACK\, noun:
claques; plural

1. A group hired to applaud at a performance.
2. A group of fawning admirers.
He cultivated the "Georgetown set" of leading journalists and columnists and had them cheering for him as if he had hired a claque.
--Theodore Draper, "Little Heinz And Big Henry," New York Times, September 6, 1992

Etymology: French, from claquer to clap, of imitative origin. Date: 1864

[CholeraJoe]

eeww. Agreed.

[CholeraJoe]

Now that she's making a NASCAR movie would Brittney Spears qualify as a Track Ho?

[RikaStrom]

I've never been red. Go for it. You can always change it back.

Yeah, after two years! I went red and when I decided to go back, they bleached my hair, then it was orange, and then they died it brown. LOL

It took two years of growing and lightening to go back to the original color. Never again will I try red!

[CholeraJoe]

Anna Kornikova: Cossack Ho

Martha Stewart: Flapjack Ho

Nicole Kidman: Outback Ho

Jennifer Lopez: Wetback Ho

I better quit before Miss Rika yells at me.

[SeaDragon]

Never again will I try red!

Wise decision...........

[Slip18]

"She's more conceited than that. I da ho."

You are so right!!!

How about marketplaces?

K-Mart: Bankrupt Ho
S&P: Up and Down Ho
Nasdaq: Low Slider Ho
Bonds: Who Gives a Sh!t Ho (the last one is my very own -- LOL!)

[doubled]

Claque, claque, claque

Isn't that what a duck with loose dentures says?

[Slip18]

"Isn't that what a duck with loose dentures says?"

Very good, doubled.

So then a train sounds like "Cliquety Claque, Cliquety Claque," right?

[lds23]

Be careful what you ask for, they always say....

[RikaStrom]

Ok Gang, you are on your own, I will see you tomorrow.

[VRWCmember]

I've been trying to work out some way to bring in the old joke about "I don't recognize the name but the face rings a bell" but I can't do it.

Did you ever hear the corrolary to that joke -- the brother of the bell ringer takes over the job and later falls to his death in the same manner, and a passerby tells another "I don't know his name, but he's a dead ringer for his brother."?

[christine]

you are? isn't your hair red in the pic in the freeper album? that must have been taken when you had the red then?

[TheGrimReaper]

I better quit before Miss Rika yells at me

Yes, it could be unpleasant for you to learn that she is a SMACK Ho!

[Robert A Cook PE]

I liked Loan's Gamesmanship here in reply 300.

http://www.freerepublic.com/fo cus/news/586501/posts

Teach... Can he get extra credit for 1000 please?

[xsmommy]

ooohhh, grimmy is living on the edge with that one.....; )

[xsmommy]

now there is a thread i would have gone my whole life without clicking on, but thanks to robt, i was able to see a bunch of math-heads (and the inevitable griping/carping malcontent posters that complain about the stupidity of a thread they have clicked on!aka tabitha something or other)get together for yucks! very clever funnies there, lone!

[xsmommy]

robt, it is very nearly 6 am, this is your wake up call....rise and shine little rosebud!

[xsmommy]

i know that you have not outlawed dodgeball in our class, so i would like to propose a game before class today. and HOBBES is it! i may need a refresher on the rules, but doesn't this mean that i can kick the ball at his head?; )

[TxBec]

Rise and shine!

[TxBec]

you early bird, you