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).]

[xsmommy]

keep that losertarian to an itty bitty part of ya. Hobbes, where is the losertarian logo....?

[Texan5]

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.

[camle]

hey! anybody who had Linda Ronstadt when she was good can't be all bad, can he?

[xsmommy]

you're right, jer is endearing in a nutty kind of way.

[xsmommy]

i had a visceral reation to both clintons upon my initial viewing of them. dole was no prize, but the alternative was satan.

[honeygrl]

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.

[Gabz]

Wait a minute - we confessed - proving we are conservatives.

It's the libs that continuously hide behind their lies.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hobby, of course, has a case of sirrises every morning .... I surmise.

(We must ask xsex to be surtain.)

[honeygrl]

"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.

[hobbes1]

[Gabz]

If I wasn't I would have said something different!!!!

[camle]

yeah. kinda like Moe/Larry/Curley!

[xsmommy]

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?

[Slip18]

"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.

[secret garden]

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.

[Laura Earl]

evil, pure evil...but I like it!

[Gabz]

I know.

Confession is good for the soul.

Mondale??????? Even I wasn't that naive................

[camle]

hee hee!

[NeoCaveman]

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.

[Robert A Cook PE]

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.