Word For The Day, Monday, August 11, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/11/03 | 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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surmise \sur*myze\, verb, transitive/intransitive; noun
surmising, surmised, surmises

1. To infer (something) without sufficiently conclusive evidence
2. To make a guess or conjecture
3. Reflection; thought. [Obs.]
4. An idea or opinion based on insufficiently conclusive evidence; a conjecture.

It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before she but surmised, was true. --Dryden.

Etymology: [Middle English surmisen, to accuse, from Old French surmise, feminine past participle of surmettre : sur-, sur- + mettre, to put (from Latin mittere).]

[Texan5]

If I were king, the first agency I would investigate (and probably discontinue) would be CPS. What a bunch of child grabbing busybodies.

[Gabz]

Thanks, Tex, you juist reminded me of the time!!!!!!!

[xsmommy]

i suppose i am fortunate in having absolutely NO first or even second hand experience with CPS. other than a few threads on FR, i know nothing about it.

[camle]

it's not the way I would go about increasing supply - that's fer sher!

but lets face it - they get their money.

[VRWCmember]

A classic.

[Texan5]

I did my college internship as a caseworker at CPS here in Texas, but by the time they tried to recruit me to work there after graduation, I had seen more than enough-I went to DHS as an elegibility caseworker (welfare snoop) instead. At least there, I could cut off benefits to some cheaters and save the taxpayers some money.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Seconded

[xsmommy]

were you in the school of social work?

[Gabz]

these jetrks sound like democrats to me...........such stupidity defies logic.

Remember, I said they were Canadians.

OTOH, they are typical of American anti-smokers who have the mindset that if you can see it (cigarette smoke) it's killing you.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Off we go into the Caf e teria,
Knocking girls out of our way.
Forward boys start moving down the counter,
Grab you milk fill your tray.
Try the beans, they were prepared last Friday.
And the meat's, tough as a mule.
The soup's cold, the bread's got mold, Bleech!
Anything beats the lunchroom at school.

Mad Magazine 1967.

[Texan5]

Unfortunately, yes, to my everlasting shame. I even worked for the state for 8 years. The only way I can excuse myself for getting that degree is that I was rather idealistic as a young girl.

[xsmommy]

well i can't imagine you could be a social worker and be a conservative, so it makes sense you left! hey i am not casting aspersions, i was a liberal for many years, like til around 1985 or so.

[Texan5]

Oh, funny! I'd forgotten all the parodies of the school cafeteria, but I'm going to try to find some of them tonite, just for jollies.

[xsmommy]

the reason i even picked up on this, was that one of the wives i offended at xshub's reunion last weekend, mentioned that she had gone for her MSW, and i said well, no wonder.... ; )

[camle]

cancdians - where health care is a governmnet benefit and government medical types don't have the resources to treat their people, but they do have the resources to phychoanalyze the characters from Winnie the Pooh!


do you mean THAT Canada?

[Laura Earl]

Glad to know I'm not the only reformed one in the bunch! I was a lib TV reporter in the early '80s!

[xsmommy]

how dare you make confessions elsewhere, other than in this room???

[Gabz]

I understand what you are saying and I don't think I want extraordinary measures to prolong my life.

But, I do think of the young girl who can now see because of the corneas of a friend of mine who died at a very too young age. Even though he was in perfect health and physical condition the powers that be refused any other organs from him because he was a smoker, even though smoking had nothing to do with his death. He died from a head injury sustained in a fall. He was 37.

[xsmommy]

xshub and i often discuss the advantages of being a convert. you know the arguments on the other side, because you have MADE them before, which makes you better at combatting them.

and again, as i said at the reunion, it is easy to be a liberal, but then you grow up....

[Texan5]

I guess I have always been a conservative, because I figured out after a short while that the system I worked for didn't agree with my own morals and principles. I finally left, and went to work in construction, where almost everyone thought just like me.