Word For The Day, Monday, August 4, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/4/03 | 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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elucidate \ih-LOO-si-dayt\, verb
elucidates; elucidating; elucidated: intransitive verb
elucidation; elucidator: noun
elucidative: adjective

1. To make clear or plain, especially by explanation; clarify.
2. To give an explanation that serves to clarify
3. Shed light on.
4. Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear

He thought that film's promise and purpose was to elucidate the real, to reveal the patterns already before us, and he believed that unity of space and time were paramount.
--Nancy Reisman, House Fires

Etymology: [Late Latin l cid re, l cid t- : Latin -, ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + Latin l cidus, bright (from l c re, to shine. See leuk- in Indo-European Roots).]

[TheGrimReaper]

This Vatican issue points out - yet again - the glaring hypocrisy that liberals engage in daily.
They love to tell the rest of us how we should live, what we should drive, what we should/shouldn't eat/drink, smoke, etc., but the minute that the Church dares to remind them of a few Catholic fundamentals, they go utterly ape-sh!t ballistic! What gall!

[VRWCmember]

Is that a vulture on her shoulder?

No, that's a picture of a little white dove with an ugly turkey vulture hanging off its @$$!

[xsmommy]

LMAO!!!

[TheGrimReaper]

i looked pretty good in comparison

In comparison to what?
Inquiring minds demand PHOTOS!

[Texan5]

Skin tight pants and CFM pumps? Was she single and trolling for leftovers, or did she think it was a backyard party?

La Muffy must not be doing so hot not to have shown up. I'm glad you sprayed the libs before they stated their views, otherwise you might have been accused of being mean spirited...

[Central Scrutiniser]

Studding out the dog this week, he is a very happy and tired doggie...

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Frank Rich is a Clymer.

And Adam Clymer is rich.

Sometimes, life is so unfair.

[TheGrimReaper]

LOL, no wonder golf is so much fun.
I have simplified all that into just 2 words, which I repeat to myself as I stand over the ball....
DON'T WHIFF!

[VRWCmember]

HOWEVER, i did end up spraying a couple that we were talking to, with red wine, when i dropped my cup (plastic cups, it was not a high class affair...) i felt bad, but what the heck could i do?

That reminds me of a party at my wife's former boss's house. His wife was mixing some punch or something and she was pouring soda water, and she spilled the soda water on her blouse. I told her "a little red wine will take that soda water right out of your blouse." She laughed, but nobody else got the joke.

[secret garden]

I have to agree with Tancredo and not McCain(again) because this does much more than start the debate.

[hobbes1]

Odd...It has generally been my experience that a little red wine will take the woman right out of the blouse....

[xsmommy]

in comparison to his classmates. i asked how they looked, when he had his golf outing as part of the reunion, earlier in the day, and he said they weren't that hot to begin with. but there was one that was a floozy in HS that still looked like a floozy, she showed up in some midriff baring top on the golf course, and had the body to go with it, i guess. i didn't see her, except from behind, at the evening thing. But i told him about the thong wearing hottie, and he said, well i want to see who YOU think is cute... LOL!

[VRWCmember]

Odd...It has generally been my experience that a little red wine will take the woman right out of the blouse....

And to think I've been wasting so much time and money on screwdrivers and boilermakers.

[xsmommy]

the thong wearing hottie was alone. and probably looking around. Muffy's family had moved away and who knows why she didn't show. apparently her brother's name was Chip....

[hobbes1]

Well, I guess that depends.....are you trying to get ehm out of the blouse, or the Pants? ; )

[xsmommy]

hope you are feeding him lots of red meat and letting him rest up. : )

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Ms. Clinton will have to elucidate
Her attempts to seal Gennifer Flowers' fate
Not a victim of rapes
But recorded on tapes
Sorry, Bill, seems like Gen was a lucid date

[VRWCmember]

Hey Gabz, why do I get the feeling you had something to do with this little loophole in the Delaware smoking ban?

Herbal cigarettes at issue in Delaware ban

[Texan5]

Same here. However, a lot of "homeless" people hang around where my husband works. He and some other employees have offered them work at their homes ranging from cutting grass and picking up trash to semi-skilled stuff like helping put up fencing. Not one of them has taken them up on the offer-there is always some excuse. Hubby says all these guys want is a handout so they can go buy more drugs or booze.

[secret garden]

Nicely done. Simple and to the point.