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.]

[RikaStrom]

It's going to be interesting to see the fallout from this bishop thing.

[VRWCmember]

Hey, how about a more ethnically diverse Dukes clan with Halle Berry playing the comely cousin.

[xsmommy]

she TALKED about it? yikes! that is creepier than creepy to me!!!!

[RikaStrom]

Darn right! He had best lose, and lose big.

A+

[xsmommy]

she is definitely pretty.

[honeygrl]

Yeah well my brother is 19 (almost 20) and I'm 25 and we still argue. Hubby can't stand to be around both of us at once.

[honeygrl]

It honestly sounds like your daughter is better off without the family members that choose not to be there.

[RikaStrom]

I'm unfamiliar with that situation. Is that good or bad?

A+

[Texan5]

I think the decision not to hop up and fetch something for the kids (or husband) after you have just served them and sat down is universal to moms. We have to eat, too.

[Laura Earl]

I agree with the Alabama chapter. The tax plan has been proposed by our RINO guv, and is a joke! Seems to me if the state chapter, which will be directly impacted by the plan opposes it, the national org should follow suit.

[RikaStrom]

I see you've been practicing ventriloquism again. :-)

[NeoCaveman]

aka bless your heart.

OOOOhhhh fightin words....

[RikaStrom]

As long as they are out of the United States.

A+

[honeygrl]

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

Well, as long a Laura Earl has no complaints then I guess we should accept it...

[RikaStrom]

Bill and Shill as a lifevest for Davis? More like cement shoes if you ask me.

A+

[hobbes1]

I didn't say that she did.

[RikaStrom]

LOL, I saw that bit of fluff. The more he places the race card instead of standing on the merits, the more we're going to keep him as comic relief.

A+

[Gabz]

Awh heck - I haven't lived in my parents home in almost 21 years ------ there ain't no squabbling in my family.

[RikaStrom]

Oh brilliant Eala, just brilliant.

A+

[Texan5]

It was a very large, strange company, with lots of totally weird people working there. I had been there nearly seven years when it went under in the late 80's real estate and construction crash here in Texas. I hated loosing that job-it was the most money I ever made for the least work. You should have seen the company parties-they were like the decadence of the late Roman empire. And the perks were fantastic-your birthday off every year, if you were having a bad day emotionally, you just said so and took the rest of the day off with pay, your choice of a Suburban or full size Chevy pick up company truck to drive, free, catered lunch on Fridays, and many others. For perks like that, I hardly noticed how strange many of my co-workers were.