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.]

[Argh]

Here, this will make you happy. Some guy killed another guy over who was going to buy more beer.

[CholeraJoe]

would you attend the ceremony or would you disown them, ceej?

Depends on whether it was hunting season or not.

[Eala]

who is that handsome devil ; ) ???

LOL -- hadn't thought of that angle...

[Robert A Cook PE]

"HOOKER HEELS are TOO TALL for walking....

Yep.

(They're meant for misbehavin' ..... Not Miss be movin'.)

[xsmommy]

arghy, you sure know how to cheer me up! : )

[xsmommy]

did you see Merle Haggard, drunk as a dang SKUNK on oreilly? good GRIEF, he was totally incomprehensible. i kept saying to xshub and xsteen, is he making ANY sense to you, bc i can't understand a word of what he is saying!

[secret garden]

H is for Haggard.

[honeygrl]

But sometimes you want to move around a bit while you are misbehaving.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Butt it's harder to hit a movin' target .....

(Guess we'll just have to lick that problem somehow....)

[honeygrl]

Isn't the chase part of the fun though?

[dixie sass]

Howdeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! Star Trek Voyager is over - my eyes are red from trying to play catch up but I thought that I would say hello anyway!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Right

[Conspiracy Guy]

Didn't see him but that sounds like him.

[Conspiracy Guy]

M is for Mudflaps
O is for the Oil in my hair
T is for Trucks
H is for Haggard
E is for ?
R is for Redneck
For it's up against the wall redneck mothers.

[Gabz]

"drunk as a skunk"

OK - that explains why I couldn't figure him out - and i just thought it was me being in a foul mood.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Ol Merle stays sh!t faced. That's why he doesn't perform much anymore. It's a wonder he isn't dead.

[Gabz]

LOL!!!!

[xsmommy]

that's what xshub said, and said that is why he is called HAGS...

[xsmommy]

did you see the Bishop that Bill O had on last night, ostensibly to grill him about the inconsistency between ordaining a fruit as bishop yet NOT marrying 2 fruits? well Bill did a pisspoor job IMO, he didn't hold his feet to the fire on that glaring inconsistency, but the bishop said that the fruit has led AN EXEMPLARY LIFE.... i screamed out loud at that. EXEMPLARY to leave your wife and two kids for another man that you cannot marry, but must live with in sin? THAT IS an EXEMPLARY LIFE? i was flabbergasted.

[hobbes1]

Riff Raff. You get an F in observant, however, the name is right on the character ; )