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Word For The Day, Thursday, August 7, 2003
The Verbivores | 8/7/03 | Teacher

Posted on 08/07/2003 5:12:02 AM PDT by 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....


tenacious \ten*a*shus\, adjective
tenaciously; adverb
tenaciousness; noun

1. Holding or tending to hold persistently to something, such as a point of view.
2. Holding together firmly; cohesive:
3. Clinging to another object or surface; adhesive
4. Tending to retain; retentive:
5. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. --Ainsworth.
6. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn..

They are free men, tenacious of their liberties and alert to lurking danger. - Ray V Denslow

Etymology: [From Latin ten x, ten c-, holding fast, from ten re, to hold. See ten- in Indo-European Roots.]


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To: TheGrimReaper
You use it to drain the noodles.
181 posted on 08/07/2003 7:12:03 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (They're "Smoke Gnatzies" Little minds buzzing into your business. Swat em.)
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To: Flurry
i have met hobbes, so i know that isn't him, but that guy isn't bad either.
182 posted on 08/07/2003 7:12:08 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Flurry
Flurry - I wasn't referring to chronilocigal age, I was referring to length of participation in the classroom.

I think I'll go bury my head under a rock and stop trying to be funny when it's raining and my foot hurts.

I retwisted the ankle I sprained last week - hurts more now than it did when I first did it.
183 posted on 08/07/2003 7:12:54 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: xsmommy
SUre, make fun of us now, but how are you going to feel when I am standing at your head saying "take a few deep breaths" -- all of the sudden you won't call me a smurf anymore. And NO I DO NOT NEED A PULSE OX AND AM NOT A SMURF -- although i do look kind of pastey and pukey in the blues -- i like the green much better....
184 posted on 08/07/2003 7:13:05 AM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: xsmommy
Your affadavit @ 177 ws more convincing ; )
185 posted on 08/07/2003 7:13:32 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1; xsmommy
Affadavits mean didly to me - that's no proof.
186 posted on 08/07/2003 7:14:10 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: RikaStrom
The Clintons at the eleventh hour
Are tenacious, to keep Gray in power
But the joke of it all
Is they never "recall"
Though their memoirs could fill up a tower
187 posted on 08/07/2003 7:16:49 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: gas_dr
well i didn't love my last anesthesiologist when i had the tubal done after xsbrownie, bc the line had moved overnight (they left it in and let me sleep on it, after giving birth the previous night, for the tubal scheduled for the next AM). no matter how much $hit they pumped into me, i was feeling like a roast on a carving board, so they had to knock me flat out and i was a drugged zombie for the next 24 hours after that fiasco. and here i sit, a lawyer, and no suit was filed. despite the nurse telling me when i finally awoke, gee, we thought we lost you there...
188 posted on 08/07/2003 7:16:59 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1
memory dims over time darling ; )
189 posted on 08/07/2003 7:17:19 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
So many ID's in here is this him?


190 posted on 08/07/2003 7:17:32 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (They're "Smoke Gnatzies" Little minds buzzing into your business. Swat em.)
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To: Flurry; hobbes1
i am thinking he must use that one when he wants to pick up DU chicks....
191 posted on 08/07/2003 7:19:37 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Gabz
Ankles are heck unless you have those Hillary Elephant Ankles.
192 posted on 08/07/2003 7:21:48 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (They're "Smoke Gnatzies" Little minds buzzing into your business. Swat em.)
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To: Flurry
Yikes. Someone put that trashcan back over his head.
193 posted on 08/07/2003 7:22:11 AM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: Flurry; CholeraJoe
CJ. PLEASE? what is going on in your State???
194 posted on 08/07/2003 7:22:26 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: dubyaismypresident
i have a great deal of difficulty imagining Mary Matalin's life, rolling over, and opening your eyes to....that.....
195 posted on 08/07/2003 7:23:18 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: dubyaismypresident
Another "catholic" dares open their piehole to the Pope concerning Church business. the effrontery is astounding. yesterday that kennedy that never worked a day in his life and today ketchupboy.
196 posted on 08/07/2003 7:29:37 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Flurry
I definitely DO NOT have those kinds of ankles.

One of the funniest things about me and twisting my ankle - over the years any time I have done it I have been wearing sensible shoes - last week I was wearing sneakers. I have never done damage to my ankle when wearing high heels.
197 posted on 08/07/2003 7:32:21 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: Gabz
The reason is you walk more carefully in heels. Is this Hobbes?
198 posted on 08/07/2003 7:34:55 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (They're "Smoke Gnatzies" Little minds buzzing into your business. Swat em.)
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To: RikaStrom
Sharpton is indeed tenacious
In citing us all as racist
But the real problem
For Rev hobgoblin
Is he's comic relief for us.
199 posted on 08/07/2003 7:39:20 AM PDT by doubled (I ordered a new tagline from Bella_Bru, but it hasn't arrived yet.)
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To: Flurry
yer getting warmer....
200 posted on 08/07/2003 7:41:06 AM PDT by xsmommy
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