Posted on 01/02/2003 10:57:58 PM PST by Bella_Bru
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....
opprobrium\uh-PRO-bree-um\, noun
opprobrious , adjective:
opprobriusly, adverb
1. Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.
2. Scornful reproach or contempt: a term of opprobrium.
3. A cause of shame or disgrace.
As an adjective:
1. Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive: opprobrious epithets.
2. Bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous: opprobrious conduct.
Etymology: Opprobrium derives from Latin opprobrare, to reproach, from ob, in the way of + probrum, reproach. The adjective form is opprobrious.
Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!
THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episode #11 - Beep, Beep, Get Out of My #$%&@&$ Way!
A+!
Hillary is frightening. TheGrimReaper has the scariest Hitlery photo collection I have ever seen.
A+, Joe!
In case I don't get a chance to say it later:
GO BUCKEYES!!
I'm a great cook
It says on the bathroom walls around here that you REALLY cook...
In Montreal the bathroom walls say: "Pour une G.T.O.S.S.T. appellez Pourquoiest-cequ'unefilledeTexasestdanslaPennsylvanie!"
Which is really something because I haven't heard the expression G.T.O.S.S.T. since aboot 1971!
(Grosse Tabarnac d'Orgie Super-Swing Tabarnac. That expression would send an English Quebecker into gales of writhing laughter but it probably won't do much around here.)
(Tabarnac=tabernacle=the worst swear word in Quebec French, equivalent to our Middle English four-letter beaut for "an action attempting to propagate the human species", so to speak)
It was a source of enormous hilarity when the Montreal Gazette published a number of years ago that in touristy parts of Mexico, Quebeckers are referred to as "los tabernacos".
The newest element in the periodic table, discovered by two gay scientists in San Francisco.
rofl!
BTW, are there any other kind of scientists in SF???
*B!tch.
Veni, Vidi, Vaseline: I came, I saw, and it does WHAT to condoms?!
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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