Word For The Day, Thursday, August 7, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/7/03 | 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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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.]

[xsmommy]

yep.

[Gabz]

HOOKER HEELS are TOO TALL for walking.

And you know this, HOW?????????????????

[Gabz]

Sweetie, you and Eala are not among the ones continually bragging about your studdliness.

[xsmommy]

flurry has, very gently, all day long, been trying to tell us he is a transvestite....

[xsmommy]

this is breaking news of great importance to you two, in particular, and the boys in general.

[honeygrl]

Sounds better than Davis atleast. My hubby thinks he'll win. The hubby probably believes the same way Arnold (can't spell his last name) does but he's afraid to argue with me...

[Texan5]

That is a sad situation for a family, but I certainly don't blame you. You tried, they did not respond. I haven't had anything to do with my dad's family since my grandmother died many years ago. The one relative my dad had dealings with afterward steered him to a bad real estate deal that caused him to loose everything he had. My dad died less than a year later, I believe of a broken heart. I have no use for that side of my family. My brother and I always tell people our mom's family is our only family.

[xsmommy]

are you more conservative than the hub?

[Gabz]

Obviously a problem my parents never had, because I was the center of the universe.

Oh, so you were the one competing with my brother that caused him to be the same type jagoff as you, huh????

All kidding aside, I've seen too many only children whose parents were late 30s or early 40s when they were born, just totally turn a blind eye to the fact the kid has no manners.

Heck I saw that for years out of younger couples with a couple of kids and still couldn't understand the lack of control the parents had.

Probably had a lot to do with my attitude about not liking or wanting any myself.

Surprised myself when I found out I was pregnant - I was thrilled!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Saw a person break their ankle in 3 places by tripping on door mat in 5 inch heels. Above 4 inches a heel is tearing your ankles to shreds unless you have a size 10 foot.

[xsmommy]

i think parenting an only child is more difficult, because you have more time and attention to give them and the become accustomed to that and that can be bad. but the lack of parenting skills transcends all age, race, economic, status barriers. i think it is the inability of people or rather the refusal of people, to see their kids as an extension of themselves, and so they don't control them. well heck, self control is not big in general anymore.

[Texan5]

My daughter is my only child, biologically speaking, though my first husband and I really wanted others, we had fertility problems. I am fortunate to have the one. We were always mindful of "only child syndrome" and went to great lengths to keep it from developing. My daughter still has an occassional bout of jealousy over her step sister (hubby's daughter), though.

[xsmommy]

and in hobbes' defense, i would have to say i am fairly certain that he would be a jagoff even if he DID have siblings...; )

[honeygrl]

Yes they are but I was 5'2" in a group of 5'10"+ women. I had to even it out a bit. I still ended up being at the front of the group walking in because I was shortest and the first in the line up at the altar that had to keep hold of the 2yr old flower girl's hand while she was misbehaving.

[VRWCmember]

Not wild about either one of them, but I'd take Carmen over Britney any day. Of course, my preference would be Heidi Klum.

[xsmommy]

i am sure it was tough to try to avoid the only child syndrome. even with 3 kids, i found that i simply decided at one point that i was NOT going to hop up and get what they had asked me for at the dinner table, bc i had just sat down myself after getting all of them situated, that they could just wait and eat whatever else was on their plate. when they are little, you tend to just do for them, whatever needs doing. i came to a point where i thought they needed to be aware that their wants and needs had to wait and be prioritized, in light of what else was going on.

[RikaStrom]

ROFLMAO

[xsmommy]

you are a broken record with the heidi klum... ; )

[Texan5]

I wondered about that, but the bit about the hooker heels being too tall to walk in was a real clincher. I once worked with a woman whose husband loved for them to dress in each others' clothes in the privacy of their home to add spice to the night. I never really wanted to know how that progressed, though...

[honeygrl]

Of course it makes you mean.. you are supposed to give her everything she wants when she wants it!! LOL Then when she grows up to be a selfish spoiled brat because of the spoiling, you have to blame it on your hubby.