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!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Actually, I laughed directly after CDs homurous comment about your chochlate intake. Besides, give me a break. Just flew in from Detroit this morn.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

It seems air travel saps me of my already iffy ability to spell

[xsmommy]

missed ya. whatcha been doin'?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Listening to people whine at public meetings over a project and also defending some work I did from critics of same project.

However, last night I nearly experienced a dream - a flight attendant I had been drinking/talking/laughing with at the hotel bar asked if I wanted to go off and "party."

[VRWCmember]

Hi xs. Another ice day today. Not a snow day, because there's no snow. It's just frozen rain, sleet, slush mess. Still about a 2 to 3 inch accumulation, so I decided not to get out in it today. I have shoveled off the driveway and sidewalk however.

[Gabz]

that's what you get for drinking/talking/laughing in hotel bars!!!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

I'm just so sick and tired of so many of my stories ending "it was all good fun, 'til the gay part..."

[hobbes1]

IT doesn't have to be gay in the end....

[xsmommy]

you kill me, HD. it takes a man secure in his masculinity to make fruity jokes about himself.

[NeoCaveman]

I got out of it by telling him I was married

Dude, you could have left out the part about the flight atendant being a guy.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Hell Dubs - Frankly I'm surprised you knew I was a guy. I assumed you just figured all the hassle I give XS was typical for one of her switch-hitting girlfriends.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Hehe- that's Red Ryder! And thank you to everyone for the warm welcome!

[xsmommy]

i didn't hear that smart remark over the orange alert sirens blaring here...

[Eala]

I loved seeing the crocuses come up. Don't know if they grow here. Ours were (thinking back 35 years), I think, white with a purple stripe, and purple?

[NeoCaveman]

I assumed you just figured all the hassle I give XS was typical for one of her switch-hitting girlfriends.

Xs's sappho friends obsess on MLR too?

[xsmommy]

i am home now. the roads are fairly bad. i saw the funniest thing though, on the way home, a handwritten sign saying STOP GLOBAL WARMING, BAN SUVs, and it was stuck in a snowbank! this was even better because at the time i was listening to seanny in the car and he was DEMOLISHING RFK,Jr. on the SUV/environmentalist issue. He had his stammering he was in such a corner.

[VRWCmember]

While the Iraqi leaders continue to mislead the UN with more palaver, the US is getting ready to introduce them to the daisy cutter's big brother.

[Bella_Bru]

Nah, you do not need to clean up your language. :-)

Yes, Robert. They were steamy pics of you!