Word For The Day, Friday, August 8, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/8/03 | 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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pandemian \pan*dem*ee*an\, adjective
pandemianly; adverb
pandemiousness; noun

1. Vulgar
2. Sensual

The characteristics of Aphrodite have bewildered philosophers who, like Plato, made a distinction between the two aspects of the goddess, one Uranian "celestial," as the goddess of pure love, and Pandemian, or "popular," as the goddess presiding over ordinary love affairs.

Etymology: I couldn’t find the etymology, double grades to the student who brings it to class!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Must keep the bush trimmed to accentuate the entire landscape.

[VRWCmember]

Somehow I knew I'd find honeygrl on the Breast-Feeding Driver Convicted on Some Charges, not Child Endangering thread. Of course we all know that honeygrl can still drive while she feeds her baby, securely strapped in the child-seat in the back, by using her well-practiced marksmanship.

[VRWCmember]

Must keep the bush trimmed to accentuate the entire landscape.

Can you use that kind of language here in the classroom? Oh, right, it's Friday.

[Laura Earl]

Dang, I just thought of another chore for me this weekend.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yep.

Gotta be able to admire all them bumps and grinds of the hole course....without the bushes gettin' in the fairway.

Else you might miss a hole or two.

And you'd never want to miss a hole ... in golf or in life.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Is it Friday?!!!!!!!!!!!?

[Laura Earl]

Is WJC in NJ?

[VRWCmember]

OK, this beer commercial (Bierbitzch) is HILARIOUS!

[Gabz]

You two are nuts.............

OK - I'm outta here - hubby and I are going out to spend some adult time with other adults and no kids (til we become parents again at 5pm)

See you all later.

[dixie sass]

Morning, er, um, I mean afternoon y'all!

Rika, this is all I could find that would relate to "Pandemian"


pa·nem et cir·cen·ses
Pronunciation: 'pä-"nem-et-kir-'kAn-"sAs
Usage: foreign term
Etymology: Latin
: bread and circuses : provision of the means of life and recreation by government to appease discontent

The majority of communicants of the Church of England and the Episcopal Church are up in arms and find that the election and pending ordination of the pandemian person to be wrong. It is a pandemiousness situation that the church finds itself in. It is a situation made pandemianly by the audicity of a certain segment of our society and like the Kobe Bryant case, will turn into a panem et circenses by both the press, ecclesiastical and earthly governments.

As a communicant of the Church, I am as appalled by this action as I am by the troubles that are plaguing the Catholic Church. It seems that the Devil is loose on earth. Someone made the comment that if GOD doesn't strike us down, he will owe Sodum and Gormorreah and apology. Although I don't agree that this country has sunk that low, we are well on our way to following in their footsteps.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Whoa!

[Conspiracy Guy]

If you're seeking adults leaving here is a good idea.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Sounds like him alright

[Conspiracy Guy]

Can't get it to open DANG

[Laura Earl]

nor can I...

[xsmommy]

i like the term POOFTER!

[honeygrl]

I don't have time to swim.. the toddler's toys are doing all the swimming, along with my crochet needles. He has thrown 7 hotwheels cars, 5 crochet needles, a pen, 2 pencils, a crayon, 4 pacifiers, and a measuring cup in the poor goldfish's tank. I was in the bedroom looking for something to wear tonight (hubby and I are going out) and I came back while he was tossing the last car in really quick when he heard me coming. I have spanked him over this, done the time out thing over it, left toys in there for weeks at a time so he couldn't have them back, but nothing will make him stop. Any ideas? I *think* he is trying to give toys to the fish to play with but I'm not sure. He's very determined to do it anyway no matter what the punishment. There is no way to make the tank closed up enough that he can't get anything in it.

[xsmommy]

note to grimmy, here is another P word for your rant= prurience.

[xsmommy]

i personally have never been into the FAMILY BED routine, but i thought that was fairly well accepted. i can barely sleep with xshub in the bed, let alone anyone else. i have never let the kids sleep with us, EVER, bc i would never sleep a wink.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Kids in bed with mom and dad is a bad habit and hard to break. But it is the parent's decision to make.