Word For The Day, Tuesday, 8/13/02

The Verbivores | 8/13/02 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

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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ecumenical \eh-yu-men-i-kul\, adjective; also: ecumenic \eh-yu-men-ik\:
ecumenical, ecumenicalism; noun
ecumenically; adverb

1. Of worldwide scope or applicability; universal.
2. 1. Of or relating to the worldwide Christian church.
   2. Concerned with establishing or promoting unity among churches or religions
3. worldwide or general in extent, influence, or application

   There wasn't an	7
   Archimandrite of Dane's Island and the townlands nor a minx	8
   from the Isle of Woman nor a one of the four cantins nor any on	9
   the whole wheel of his ecunemical conciliabulum nor nogent	10
   ingen meid on allad the hold scurface of the jorth would come	11
   next or nigh him, Mr Eelwhipper, seed and nursery man, or	12
   his allgas bumgalowre, Auxilium Meum Solo A Domino (Amsad),	13
   for rime or ration, from piles or faces, after that.
   --- James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake, Book III, Episode III, Verse 496 Etymology: Late Latin oecumenicus, from Late Greek oikoumenikos, from Greek oikoumenE the inhabited world, from feminine of oikoumenos, present passive particle of oikein to inhabit, from oikos house. Date: circa 1587

[xsmommy]

let's not get carried away, shall we...?

[xsmommy]

did you guys miss me?

[NeoCaveman]

did you guys miss me?

I figure you and your furry friend are good for adding a 100 posts a day...mostly of witty bickering.

[RikaStrom]

LOL< it's been a bad couple of days.

[xsmommy]

I AM MUCH funnier and wittier than he, of course....

[xsmommy]

i feel ya, teach, as they say in the vernacular, i feel ya....

[xsmommy]

this is interesting, i am making sweet corn for dinner, and it turns out it fights disease.. how refreshing to hear that something is good for us, instead of killing us.

[NeoCaveman]

i feel ya, teach, as they say in the vernacular, i feel ya....

Maybe that'll cheer her up....

[RikaStrom]

Ok gang. I will see you sometime tomorrow. Be nice to your substitute.

[xsmommy]

i would suggest a few rounds with

[xsmommy]

teach the jose cuervo is for you and your bad day. i suggest 10 rounds... ; )

[NeoCaveman]

Bribing your substitute teach already....I like that :-)

[xsmommy]

well since the teach slipped out, sure it can be for you!

[xsmommy]

you know i am angling for pet status....

[xsmommy]

you are SOOOOOOOOOOOO FOS.

[NeoCaveman]

LMAO...ROTFLMAO.....

[NeoCaveman]

you know i am angling for pet status....

Well you do have that servile quality so necessary for the position as pet.