Posted on 02/25/2003 11:44:53 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....
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.
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!
A physician claims these are actual comments from his patients made while he was performing colonoscopies:And my favorite:
--"Take it easy, Doc, you're boldly going where no man has gone before."--"Find Amelia Earhart yet?"
--"Can you hear me NOW?"
--"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"
--"You know, in Arkansas, we're now legally married."
--"Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?"
--"You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out. You do the Hokey Pokey...."
--"Hey! Now I know how a Muppet feels!"
--"If your hand doesn't fit, you must acquit!"
--"Hey, Doc, let me know if you find my dignity."
--"Could you write me a note for my wife, saying that my head is not, in fact, up there?"
Here too - I WANT SPRING - like yesterday.
This cowboy walks into a bar, sits down and orders a drink. A real butch-lookin' he-woman comes in and plops down on the bar stool next to him. She looks him up and down and sez to him, "Hey, you a real cowboy?"
Cowboy sez, " Waallll when I wake up I put on mah cowboy boots and mah cowboy chaps and mah cowboy hat, and I get on mah horse, and I ride around all day ropin' and ridin', and I work hard and I sweat hard, then I go home and get in mah bunk and the next day I get up and do it all over agin."
He-woman sez: "Well, I'm a Lesbian. When I get up I think about women, when I go to work I think about women, the whole day I think about women, then I go home and go to bed and I dream about women."
Cowpoke sez "Huh."
Along comes a dude up to the bar in his fake leather boots, sits down on the other side of the cowboy. "Howdy pardner!" he yells. "You a REAL COWBOY?"
Cowpoke broods on it for a minute and turns to the man and sez-- "Waaallll I THOUGHT I was, but turns out I'm a lesbian..."
They say there's a possibility for more precip today, but we'll see. Nothing here yet. Click here to check it out...
Good morning, xs and Mnm!
MnM, we've had rain here for the past three days in this desert. Amazing. More rain expected today and tomorrow. Dang, I'm not used to the wet stuff.
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