Word For The Day, Wednesday, 2/26/03

2/26/03

[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....

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Teacher's note:

Please help me welcome Lunatic Fringe to our class! Also, due to the fact that I missed class yesterday, you will all recieve A's.

palaver\puh-LAV-ur; puh-LAH-vur\, noun:
palaver, intransitive verb, transitive verb

1.Talk; conversation; especially: a. idle talk b. talk intended to beguile or deceive.
2. A parley usually between persons of different backgrounds or cultures or levels of sophistication; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation.
Other forms:
intransitive verb:
To use palaver; to talk idly.

transitive verb:
To use palaver to; to flatter; to cajole.

[H]e is glad to palaver of his many adventures, as a boy will whistle after sundown in a wood. --O. Henry, "The Man Higher Up"

Etymology: Palaver derives from Late Latin parabola, a proverb, a parable, from Greek parabole, from paraballein, to compare, from para-, beside + ballein, to throw. In Medieval Latin, parabola acquired the further senses 'word' and 'tale, story', whence Portuguese palavra (compare Spanish palabra, word), whence palaver , with its own new, naturally derivative senses.

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

[CholeraJoe]

yes i am sure you are better equipped to clear the roads, and that there is much less traffic traveling those roads.

There are more people in Fairfax County than in the entire state of Montana. In Eastern Montana, some of the school busses have snowplow blades on the front.

[TheGrimReaper]

I am sure that if you would simply go outside and stand in the snow for a few moments, your warmth and charm would melt it all away and spring would arrive almost immediately... birds would sing, flowers blossom, trees bud, and all would be right with the world.

[/bullsh!t off]

[NeoCaveman]

Morning Teach,

Another day, another palaver. Free Miguel!

[xsmommy]

you know me, you really really know me ; )

[Gabz]

My hubby would give anything to be back living in Arizona. He hates the cold weather (anything below 80 degrees is considered cold in his mind)

[xsmommy]

Eating energy bars specially fortified with nutrients "for women" has become a feminist trend, as well. "Unlike traditional, phallocentric energy bars, whose chocolate, soy protein, nuts, and granola ignored the special health and nutritional needs of women, their new, female-oriented counterparts like Luna are ideally balanced with a more suitable amount of chocolate, soy protein, nuts, and granola," Klein said. "Proto-feminist pioneers like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony could never have imagined that female empowerment would one day come in bar form."

down with phallocentric energy bars!

[Gabz]

'Look out, male-dominated world, here comes me and my shoes.

LOL!!!!!

[hobbes1]

. "Proto-feminist pioneers like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony could never have imagined that female empowerment would one day come in bar form."

One can only imagine the difficulty they must have encountered keeping the calorie count down, when the most requested shape was 8 inches long, and as fat as a beer can.

[xsmommy]

i'm wearing my hoochie glitter shirt tomorrow!

[NeoCaveman]

phallocentric energy bars!

I've never heard it called that before. Dang brainy chicks always like to make thing complex :-)

[xsmommy]

obviously you two are reading from the same script!

[hobbes1]

Dang brainy chicks.....

Dubs is dealing in oxymorons this morning.

[xsmommy]

There is no cork big enough to stop up the palaver issuing from Hollywood.

[xsmommy]

bite me ; )

[NeoCaveman]

Dubs is dealing in oxymorons this morning.

You know what I mean. Booksmart, but can't drive their way out of a brown paper bag. LOL.

[hobbes1]

You know what I mean. Booksmart

Well....Allegedly....LOL

[Slip18]

How do you "empower" yourself when you live in sandals? LOL! I have really cute ones, though.

[xsmommy]

are you kidding? sandals are incredibly empowering! you go girl!! ; )

[Slip18]

That's the way Cyber is, too, 80 degrees or above. It's only 50 degrees right now, but they were cold this morning. I went out to get the newspaper in short jammies. 50 degrees doesn't bother me at all.

[Slip18]