Word For The Day, Thursday, July 10, 2003

The Verbivores | 7/10/03 | The Teacher

[RikaStrom]

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. Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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vafrous \Va"frous\,adjective:
vafrously: adverb

Crafty; cunning; sly; as, vafrous tricks. [Obs.]

Etymology: [L. vafer.] Obscure

[camle]

it was OK. tall, and really stainless steel.

[hobbes1]

Her Problem is easy to see.

She has Money, Prestige, Accolades, and Perks, but, She was too liberated to marry a Slightly Older highly successful type of man, thinking she deserved ...a movie star...that didn't pan out..So, lacking the long term appreciation of being appreciated by someone that displays some manner of virility, be it by virtue of success, power,physicality, fatherhood, whatever.. as spinsterhood approaches she spends all her time around Girly men, who want sex, but cant provide it adequately.....Instead of looking for the reason that she is dissatisfied she assumes it is because men are dissatisfying, not that she is just browsing the wrong brand...

(It is, in fact the sexual/romantic version of that old line
attributed to the New Yorker’s Pauline Kael, who supposedly remarked, in all
sincerity, "I don’t understand how Nixon won; I don’t know a soul who voted for him.")


Odd isn't it, the dual examples of parochialism practiced in the most diverse city on the planet...?

[gas_dr]

Here are real men...note they are gas passers.

[hobbes1]

And as he has said many a time, he goes from 18-80, blind, lame and crazy.... she fits within his parameters..

So do you, four eyes... ; )

[xsmommy]

yes, gas, those indeed are real men!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

always kinda ticks me off that the guy who dreamed up the idea of The Arch is better remembered than the brilliant engineers who figured out how to actually make the damn thing.

But damn it is one beautiful thing.

[xsmommy]

i am presently only 3 eyes.

[hobbes1]

That makes you fit the criteria more closely than doesn't it?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

did the Tiger finally get you to permantly roll one? Damn - he IS good...

[xsmommy]

she is needy, and she is local. have pity on poor Mo. ; )

[xsmommy]

HA! some chance!!

you are dang funny, hd. i gotta give ya that!

[hobbes1]

Ironically enough I do pity her. She is obviously an Unhappy person, and she need not be.



Whatever F*d up Woody Allen to make him unhappy happened in his past, and cannot be reconciled, but her unhappiness stems largely from a lack of introspection, and adherence to the facade of liberation....(She will only go out with Alist types, if she were TRULY liberated she would get a boytoy or a househusband......)

[xsmommy]

every woman's dream : )

how could she not have had it?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

This is more dang funny.

[xsmommy]

hilarious! i would vote to kill Grover! he is WAY down the list, though!

[xsmommy]

though i don't know, big bird grates on me too.... i always preferred Oscar and i LOVE slimy!

[NeoCaveman]

I vote for killing Elmo!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Oscar's cool too - I like surely kids' characters. I don't know what Slimy is though.

[hobbes1]

Because even what she sees as a boytoy, would in the end turn out to be a FLB....(she would end up with one of the guys from NSYNC trying to play for our team..)

[xsmommy]

Slimy is Oscar's pet worm!