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Word For The Day, Monday, August 11, 2003
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| 8/11/03
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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: Texan5
In that neighborhood, it was more than just one house......
No one can understand just how happy and thankful I am to be out of there.
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posted on
08/11/2003 7:23:28 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Gabz
I voted for clintoon first time around. Say it ain't so!
To: Gabz
"Unfortunately, they have turned it around and insist I only talked to CPS because I was being investigated. "
I talk to them everyday.. (called DFACS in my town) there is one that lives next door to me. The neighborhood is going to hell. lol The drug dealers were bad enough, then they decide to stick DFACS people next door too.
203
posted on
08/11/2003 7:24:35 AM PDT
by
honeygrl
(I reserve the right to take any statement and copy it out of context.)
To: VRWCmember
ok, before you get too high and mighty, since we are confessing things, what horrible secret do you have to tell us. and you are proud of the sex addiction, so that doesn't count!!
204
posted on
08/11/2003 7:24:53 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Slip18
I have your Teddy quote on my refrigerator. He was right on many topics(not all, but who is - besides the not-so-humble tiger).
To: honeygrl; xsmommy; Laura Earl; dubyaismypresident; Flurry; Gabz; VRWCmember
it wouldn't take long to get the toddler to call him daddy.. dubyaismyUNCLEDADDY?
206
posted on
08/11/2003 7:26:01 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: xsmommy
The problem with that is that when you ignore them they believe they are right.
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posted on
08/11/2003 7:26:08 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Laura Earl
LOL~!
when the tykle was old enough to damage the cat, the cat decided to go into defensive mode. Since cats in defensive mode tend to bristle with sharp weapons, I had to take the cat and teach her not to mess with the kid. from that moment on, the cat never scratched the kid, no matter what the kid did. well, almost. there WAS that time the kid tried to flush the cat, and was rewarded with an eye to chin slash!
208
posted on
08/11/2003 7:26:11 AM PDT
by
camle
(dis blondes in MY presence willya?!)
To: Gabz
I voted for clintoon first time around. NOooo!
To: Laura Earl
I have been saying that for years-they are simply not needed any more. All they do now is aid and abet the mafia and the liberal agenda.
210
posted on
08/11/2003 7:26:15 AM PDT
by
Texan5
To: xsmommy
I gave Money to Jerry Brown in 92. ; )
211
posted on
08/11/2003 7:26:54 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: Texan5
she has two (now three) college degrees, and yet still beleives that stuff. yep. that's the ex all right!
212
posted on
08/11/2003 7:27:01 AM PDT
by
camle
(dis blondes in MY presence willya?!)
To: xsmommy
1-800-We-The-People
213
posted on
08/11/2003 7:27:25 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: xsmommy
ok, before you get too high and mighty, since we are confessing things, what horrible secret do you have to tell us. About the worse thing I can come up with is this: I sold Amway on the side for about a year.
To: xsmommy
The things we do for love.
215
posted on
08/11/2003 7:27:53 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
("Smoke Gnatzies". Tiny buzzing pests. Swat em. I'm not a hunchback, that's my azz.)
To: hobbes1
you would do it again today, you are proud and that is no embarrassing secret except to those of us who see him as Gov. Moonbeam !
216
posted on
08/11/2003 7:28:29 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: camle
What a great story.
That's so cool.
217
posted on
08/11/2003 7:28:41 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: camle
My 16 y.o. cat has his claws, and used them regularly until I got another cat, and had her declawed. He hasn't scratched me in 9 years now.
218
posted on
08/11/2003 7:28:49 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: VRWCmember
that IS pretty humiliating!
219
posted on
08/11/2003 7:29:09 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: honeygrl
Kids? Those are those loud, messy, small humans that distract from.... more fun things, right?
220
posted on
08/11/2003 7:29:40 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Wednesday, at Shaker Square the Freep is on vs. Hillary)
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