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Word For The Day, Monday, August 11, 2003
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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: honeygrl; hobbes1
keep that losertarian to an itty bitty part of ya. Hobbes, where is the losertarian logo....?
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posted on
08/11/2003 7:41:56 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
I didn't like him or Dole, and I was really disappointed that there was not a better, clearer choice. Hillary had not shown her most evil face before term two, however. Once she did, I knew I had made a hell of a mistake, and began campaigning against her husband three full years before the next election.
262
posted on
08/11/2003 7:42:07 AM PDT
by
Texan5
To: xsmommy
hey! anybody who had Linda Ronstadt when she was good can't be all bad, can he?
263
posted on
08/11/2003 7:42:16 AM PDT
by
camle
(dis blondes in MY presence willya?!)
To: camle
you're right, jer is endearing in a nutty kind of way.
264
posted on
08/11/2003 7:43:08 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Texan5
i had a visceral reation to both clintons upon my initial viewing of them. dole was no prize, but the alternative was satan.
265
posted on
08/11/2003 7:44:14 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Gabz
one other thing.. wasn't clinton running against Bush Sr the first time around? (i was still in high school, skipping class and popping pills then so was barely coherent.) I honestly don't think Bush Sr was cut out for a second term. I am not sure I could ever forgive him, after seeing the details I've read so far, for how the US totally screwed over the Iraqis when they tried to revolt after he agreed to a ceasefire there. I am glad that Bush Jr fixed his dad's screw up though. I don't remember much else thoug about his politics. What we really truly need is another Reagan I think. But I have little hope for ever seeing someone who could live up to that high standard.
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posted on
08/11/2003 7:44:20 AM PDT
by
honeygrl
(I reserve the right to take any statement and copy it out of context.)
To: xsmommy; Texan5
Wait a minute - we confessed - proving we are conservatives.
It's the libs that continuously hide behind their lies.
267
posted on
08/11/2003 7:44:55 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: RikaStrom; hobbes1; xsmommy
Hobby, of course, has a case of sirrises every morning .... I surmise.
(We must ask xsex to be surtain.)
268
posted on
08/11/2003 7:45:35 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Laura Earl
"Cat used to sit up on the changing table and watch the baby sleep. never once did the cat get into the crib. "
It was trying to plan a way to get rid of the intruder without getting in trouble... my 3 cats I had when the toddler was born use to do the same thing (except for loki who loved the brat) but they didn't just watch.. they actually tried to off him a few times.
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posted on
08/11/2003 7:46:01 AM PDT
by
honeygrl
(I reserve the right to take any statement and copy it out of context.)
To: xsmommy
270
posted on
08/11/2003 7:46:14 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: VRWCmember
If I wasn't I would have said something different!!!!
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posted on
08/11/2003 7:46:22 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: xsmommy
yeah. kinda like Moe/Larry/Curley!
272
posted on
08/11/2003 7:46:43 AM PDT
by
camle
(dis blondes in MY presence willya?!)
To: Gabz
no, you get props galore for confessing, but honestly, i do see something to having converted to conservatism. i think it makes you much more sensitive to and tuned into those on the left. there was no voting for a democrat EVER, once i became a conservative. NEVER. do you hear me?
273
posted on
08/11/2003 7:46:43 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
"i like jerry. he is cute in a moonbeamish, other-wordly way...."As a young man, he was in a Jesuit Seminary.
His father was a POS, though, as Governor of CA.
274
posted on
08/11/2003 7:46:47 AM PDT
by
Slip18
To: xsmommy; VRWCmember
I am sitting here, in shock, about these horrifying revelations. What next? Secret PETA or Sierra Club contributions?
I will confess to once voting for a democrat. Phil Gramm, before he switched parties.
To: camle
evil, pure evil...but I like it!
276
posted on
08/11/2003 7:47:04 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: xsmommy
I know.
Confession is good for the soul.
Mondale??????? Even I wasn't that naive................
277
posted on
08/11/2003 7:47:38 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Laura Earl
hee hee!
278
posted on
08/11/2003 7:47:57 AM PDT
by
camle
(dis blondes in MY presence willya?!)
To: Texan5
I didn't like him or Dole, and I was really disappointed that there was not a better, clearer choice. 1996 was my first presidential vote. I knew Dole was a loser so I decided I might as well vote Libertarian. Then Bob Dole did that last 48 hours non-stop campaigning and the polls started to look better so, on election day, I decided to vote for Dole.
279
posted on
08/11/2003 7:48:24 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Wednesday, at Shaker Square the Freep is on vs. Hillary)
To: camle
A liberal (green party) way to solve the organ donor problem would be to kill more people ....
A conservative solution is to increase the incentive to donate.
280
posted on
08/11/2003 7:48:37 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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