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Word For The Day, Monday, August 11, 2003
The Verbivores | 8/11/03 | Teacher

Posted on 08/11/2003 5:07:32 AM PDT by 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....


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).]


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To: xsmommy; camle; Flurry
Flurry is gonna be jealous! And after vacuuming cat hair this weekend, I am too.
141 posted on 08/11/2003 6:53:19 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Never wear panties to a party!)
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To: Laura Earl; xsmommy; Texan5
Am I the only one of us that has never been a real Lib???

Even when I was a radio reporter???

The first Presidential election I could vote in I voted for Ronald Reagan and I voted for his re-election.
142 posted on 08/11/2003 6:54:44 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: Gabz
God bless your friend. I don't even think of corneas as a "transplant", probably because that has been done for so long. If I had a massive head injury, I would not want to survive-I wouldn't really be "living", but rather "existing".
143 posted on 08/11/2003 6:54:50 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: xsmommy
NO YOU CAN'T PARTY ON THE PUSSYCAT'S DEA BODY YOU VULTURE;-)

Actually she has been in decline for the past two years, adn recently she has been incontinent and very weak. She would come in, eat, then go back out and lay onthe sidewalk.

Whilst we were out, one of the neighbors called animal control who came and scooped her up and put her in the local animal hospital where she died.

I was only just now able to learn what had befallen her.


She was initially obtained by my ex before we met, and has been part of the family ever since. She used to jump upo on my lap and pay her head upon my arm whilst I did paperwork, or whatever.

I could tell you stories, but i wouldn't want to broe anyone. She will be missed...
144 posted on 08/11/2003 6:56:05 AM PDT by camle (dis blondes in MY presence willya?!)
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To: Texan5
When you eat meat, but hate the meat that you're eating, You have surely got, Ground Round.

Too busy to write the whole thing but etched in my mine.
145 posted on 08/11/2003 6:56:22 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy ("Smoke Gnatzies". Tiny buzzing pests. Swat em. I'm not a hunchback, that's my azz.)
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To: Gabz
well don't be a snot about it, gabz! ; ) i was protesting the vietnam war in Jr. High(not out in public anywhere), i sent a letter to my SIL from law school about how depressed i was when Ronald Reagan was elected. but i am a better person today!
146 posted on 08/11/2003 6:56:30 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: RikaStrom
Professor David Bell, of Stirling University, authored a study surmising that the key to a high salary is social drinking.

Drinkers paid more than teetotallers, survey finds

Ted Kennedy was overheard saying, "I'll drink to that."
(of course, he'll drink to any old thing!)

147 posted on 08/11/2003 6:56:44 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: xsmommy
Gee, I didn't know they did a thumbnail sketch of you on Cheers!
148 posted on 08/11/2003 6:57:08 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: camle
i am sorry for your loss, camle. i hate cats, though.
149 posted on 08/11/2003 6:57:43 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Gabz
I was a Lib for 2 weeks at 17. Then I found a cooler chick who wasn't a lib.
150 posted on 08/11/2003 6:58:09 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy ("Smoke Gnatzies". Tiny buzzing pests. Swat em. I'm not a hunchback, that's my azz.)
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To: Flurry
you ho.
151 posted on 08/11/2003 6:58:37 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Laura Earl
you have GOT to see freaky friday, it is HILARIOUS! i loved it.
152 posted on 08/11/2003 6:59:17 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; Gabz
Gabz is doing the superior dance...disgusting!

I too was disappointed when Reagan was elected the first time, but by the second time, I had become an adult and proudly voted for him.
153 posted on 08/11/2003 6:59:22 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Never wear panties to a party!)
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To: Laura Earl
never voted for him. gave money to mondale. can you believe it? good thing CJ is out of town, he loves to rag on my butt for that.
154 posted on 08/11/2003 7:00:10 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
owning property and getting mugged also have a way of making you see things from a more conservative point of view.

In a way I guess you could call the drug dealer problem I had in front of the house in Dover to be a continuous mugging.

I don't give a hoot what kind of drugs anyone wants to do - just don't drag me into it by causing me problems.

155 posted on 08/11/2003 7:00:17 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: xsmommy
I'll have to check it out. As I recall, the original was pretty funny.
156 posted on 08/11/2003 7:00:33 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Never wear panties to a party!)
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To: xsmommy
touche, my friend, and thanx.

when my ex left, she took the cat with her (in a huff). The cat, who by that age was a sit & sleeper managed to not only shred tmost everything in the apartment, but escaped by ripping the screen door and digging up the landlady's flowerbed! She didnt' do stuff like that when she was young!

I got her back soon thereafter. she spent a week never leaving my side purring in my lap at every opportunity...
157 posted on 08/11/2003 7:00:35 AM PDT by camle (dis blondes in MY presence willya?!)
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To: xsmommy
I thought it was horribly sexist of the female cadets to get first grab at the food.

We sent up extra gear with the 'bot (they weren't allowed to bring in food, electronics and such), and he gave away a compass, some rain gear, soap and toothpaste to the cadets who forgot to bring those things. I was shopping with him for two days for all of this stuff.

I think everything comes out in the wash at the end.

He laughed at me for sending up with him individual hand wipies. They were all gone when he got back.

Next year Cyber and I are going to work this little soiree. It should be fun, to say the least. We'll be staying in a HOTEL nearby, though.

158 posted on 08/11/2003 7:01:39 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: Laura Earl
i never saw the original, but i am betting this is updated. honestly, i was very close to peeing my pants at various points and xskids kept looking over at me i was guffawing aloud.
159 posted on 08/11/2003 7:02:12 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Gabz
Maybe....I only voted for a liberal once, though, and it was in a state election. I was brought up in a conservative, military family, so maybe that is why I never really bought into the liberal lies. They always had the stench of communism about them.
160 posted on 08/11/2003 7:02:12 AM PDT by Texan5
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