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).]

[secret garden]

I guess if you're going to fall off the wagon, it might as well be over a cliff, into a pit of rattlers. ;)

[xsmommy]

i cannot thank VABthang4 enough for that graphic. it sums it ALL up in one tidy little package. libetarianism is for losers.

[hobbes1]

As a young man, he was in a Jesuit Seminary.

As was the finest working interviewer, and talk show host in the business today.....

John McLaughlin.

They used to build some keen intellects.

[Slip18]

My worst was voiting for John McCain in the Presidential Primary. I've never lived that one down with Cyber.

Of course, then I was in the desert FReep to recall him. What fun that was!

[hobbes1]

ISSUE ONE!

[xsmommy]

gabz, please. you can claim NO MORAL HIGH GROUND after the admission re voting for the bubbaloon. none!

[NeoCaveman]

I will confess to once voting for a democrat. Phil Gramm, before he switched parties.

That's nothing to confess, that's a sign of discernment. Any vote for Phil Gramm is a good vote.

[honeygrl]

CHeck out the tshirts for babies here. They are HILARIOUS! (beware some are VERY offensive) My favorite is "Are you my daddy?" and "F!#K THE MILK, WHERE'S THE WHISKEY TITS?!"

[Conspiracy Guy]

Actually the first time I was old enough, (used to be 21 as minimum) Carter was running against Ford. I had just gotten out of USAF and moved back to Alabama and wasn't registered, but I would have voted for Ford. I registered and voted for Reagan against Carter. Then Reagan again. Then Bush twice. Then Dole. Then in 2000, I didn't make it to the poll but knew Alabama's 6 electoral votes were in GWB's pocket, so my vote was safe. I will never miss another voting day unless I'm in the Hospital.

[xsmommy]

one of my very good school mom friends also voted for McCain in the primary, despite my daily harangues to her about his mcnuttiness. she went to a rally for him here in VA. she was afraid that bush could not win. she is also the one that would gladly leave her hub and 4 kids if George beckoned!

[Texan5]

I had done a very good deed before I cast that disastrous vote, however-years before, I converted my hubby from a liberal to a conservative. How he could have been a liberal and a career military officer is beyond me. Maybe because he was stationed in Kookiefornia (San Francisco, no less) before he was transferred here.

[honeygrl]

"About the worse thing I can come up with is this: I sold Amway on the side for about a year. "

Now you are truly evil..

[hobbes1]

I always liked...the little baby Harley shirt that says on the back...


"If you can read this the b!tch fell off!"

[xsmommy]

kudos to you for that. xshub and i mutually evolved.

[Robert A Cook PE]

We flew irregularly in or out of Groton while stationed at New London sub base in the mid 70's...

[secret garden]

Are you trying to get me started on what's happened to the Jesuits in the last 20 years?

[honeygrl]

Oh and I have an even worse secret... Once, a long time ago, before I knew what PETA really stood for and got involved in, I gave them $15....... (hanging head in shame)

[VRWCmember]

I will confess to once voting for a democrat. Phil Gramm, before he switched parties.

In 2000, for the first time ever, I voted for a democrat. There was one race on the ballot that kept me from voting a straight republican ticket. The Tarrant County District Attorney, Tim Curry, is a RINO that has no respect for the rule of law or for victims. He has repeatedly flouted the law in the prosecution of drunk drivers, even repeat offenders who have caused serious injury and death. HE decided the HE considers it a disease rather than a crime (obviously confusing alcoholism with chronic drunk driving) and that these people should get help rather than jail, regardless of what the law says. His democrat opponent was more of a tough law and order prosecutor and would have done more to get criminals off the streets. Unfortunately, we still have the RINO, POS, panty-waste DA who should be a public defender instead of a prosecutor.

[hobbes1]

Nope.....The lack of a Modern day Edmund G Brown, or John Mc Laughlin is all that needs to be said.

[Texan5]

Still no excuse, someone can bring you a ballot-only your demise is a permissable reason not to vote.