Word For The Day, Wednesday, August 6, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/6/03 | 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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stave \stayve\, noun
staved or stove; staving, stavesverb, intransitive verb
staving, staves intransitive verb

Noun
1. A narrow strip of wood forming part of the sides of a barrel, tub, or similar structure.
2. A rung of a ladder or chair.
3. A staff or cudgel.
4. A set of verses; a stanza
verb, intransitive verb
5. To break in or puncture the staves of.
6. To break or smash a hole in.
7. To crush or smash inward.
8. To furnish with staves.
9. To be or become crushed in.

And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously. --Tennyson.
All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys.

Etymology: [Back-formation from staves, pl. of staff1.]

[hobbes1]

Really. Drugging someone is series deranged....I mean if the kid couldn't win, you make him go home take a hugh beating and wear a dress for a day or two.....

[Texan5]

While I may not like her politics, I'm glad she told the nannies where to shove it.

[Gabz]

You're right, she not your average smoker - she's wealthy!!!

If more smokers were like her in her stance against the gnatzies we wouldn't have as many of these damned draconian anti smoker laws.

When it comes to smoking her politics are in the right place - the opposite of the liberal leftie gnatzie.

[xsmommy]

the only thing that fires up xshub, is seeing some huge kid check xsboy from behind, in hockey. and it is aggravated by seeing the opposing teams parents yelling to their kids to HIT SOMEONE (most offensive teams are from NJ...go figure, tiger...)

[Texan5]

Good one!

[Gabz]

No prize is worth that - what the he!! are these people (they can't be called parents) teaching their kids?

[Gabz]

As I said to Flurry, if more smokers were like her we wouldn't be suffering at the hands o0f the antis.

[hobbes1]

by seeing the opposing teams parents yelling to their kids to HIT SOMEONE

It's Hockey, not soccer...FCOL....I have always been a fan of the Lindros method.Why go around someone when you can go OVER thru them.

How do you get a European Hockey player to dig hard in the Corners?

Start a Fight at Center Ice.

[Gabz]

That kind of crap was not tolerated when I was involved in sports at that age - I remember parents from opposing teams being ejected from the auditorium when I was playing basketball.

Apparently you have encountered any teams from NYC if you think NJ ones are bad!!!!

[xsmommy]

NY but not NYC, and CT ones, who xshub has said play dirty.

[hobbes1]

It's only dirty if you get caught.

[xsmommy]

easy for you to say bc your kids are big. xsboy is small for his age, and his entire team tends toward smallish. and you see them playing against teams of kids SUPPOSEDLY the same age (they go by birth year) and the dang opposing team kids look like they SHAVE!!!!

[xsmommy]

you have never had the experience of seeing the ice cleared so they can scrape your son off of the boards....

[Conspiracy Guy]

She is fuel to their fire. They point at her and say that she is who smokers are. Telling them off is fine when done properly. She will be the seed for more nanny laws. She will do for smokers what Eric Rudolph did for Anti-Abortion movement. She'll push the fence sitter to the left.

[hobbes1]

Well, my boys are both big, but rather i speak from my own experience, I was smallish (5'8").... that only makes one more determined to hit harder.

When I was 16 or so, we travelled north to play against some team that was all grown men, and they were like, "oh we play no checking...etc.." and then proceeded to play dirty, and almost beat us, in the second game we took off the self imposed restraints, and gave them a shellacking, and a bruising.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight......

[Conspiracy Guy]

We'll disagree on this. She is fuel for their fire.

[hobbes1]

you have never had the experience of seeing the ice cleared so they can scrape your son off of the boards..

Not yet, at least....Wolf is the one I worry about in that regard, he is far too good natured. Jude is already turning into a little monster.

[hobbes1]

Though he gave Jude another Fat lip, and a Bloody nose last week...so I think he is getting it.

[doubled]

HERE

Thom Golab, a vice president at the nonpartisan Competitive Enterprise Institute, observes: "In defending the Democrats' unconstitutional legislative redistricting map, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a bizarre statement in their opinion: 'Literalism must be avoided because there is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.' "

The court will stave in all reason
Even if it comes to treason
To read things their way
So they have the say
And words will lose their meanin'.

ALSO:Our story centers on 15-year-old Kiet Tran, who moved to the United States last year after his Vietnamese mother married John Gardner of Madison. The teenager didn't understand English, so Madison public school officials placed him in a bilingual education class — for Spanish speakers.

A young boy from southeast Asia
Trying to learn the English language
They put him in Spanish
Might as well Danish
'Cause neither would stave off malaise, eh?

[Consort]

But...but..."stave off" is not included in the definitions. Phrasal Verb: stave off