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Word For The Day, Monday, August 11, 2003
The Verbivores
| 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
Charlie couldn't marry her. She wasn't a virgin. He would have relinquished the Crown.
621
posted on
08/11/2003 1:48:30 PM PDT
by
Slip18
To: dubyaismypresident; Robert A. Cook, PE
Dubs, there's still no picture of Thong Girl over there. At least, not in a thong. That you can see much of. It appears to be censored. Is that her with the shirt on in # 6?
622
posted on
08/11/2003 1:49:39 PM PDT
by
Argh
To: dubyaismypresident
Oh, God! Is every strange person in Kali running for gov?
623
posted on
08/11/2003 1:49:50 PM PDT
by
Texan5
To: secret garden
To: Argh
Hey, I named my duck Gertrude. Called her Trudie for short. Problem was she was a he. I love the old fashioned names.
625
posted on
08/11/2003 1:51:04 PM PDT
by
Slip18
To: dubyaismypresident
To: Flurry; xsmommy; RikaStrom
To: VRWCmember
If that doesn't wake you up, nothing will......
To: Texan5
I like rain too. We've had precious little of it here (most unusual) for two or three months.
Psst, call Ghostbusters!
629
posted on
08/11/2003 1:53:32 PM PDT
by
Argh
To: Texan5
Oh, God! Is every strange person in Kali running for gov? Nope that's a popular myth. With a population greater than 36 million it's clear that their are more crazy people NOT running than a running
P.S. there's a Republican by the name of Bob Dole (not the Bob Dole of course) on the ballot. I wonder how he does?
To: Slip18
My maternal grandmother was named Gertrude.
631
posted on
08/11/2003 1:55:08 PM PDT
by
Argh
To: dubyaismypresident
I didn't know that little shrimp Gary Coleman from Diffrent Strokes was running. Fox and Friends had him on this morning.
632
posted on
08/11/2003 1:56:50 PM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: dubyaismypresident
If that doesn't wake you up, nothing will.. Will that be regular or D-cup -- uh, I mean Decaf?
To: VRWCmember
Now I know why a friend of mine goes to Chile often. And I thought it was to go fishing. Yeah, right!
634
posted on
08/11/2003 1:57:35 PM PDT
by
Slip18
To: Argh
My great aunt was named Gertrude. We called her Aunt Gert. She always brought us chocolates from Germany. I still remember the box. It was a pull-out type box. And each individual piece of chocolate was wrapped in different foil.
635
posted on
08/11/2003 2:00:45 PM PDT
by
Slip18
To: Slip18
And she was a commoner, to boot. But he still should have taken his balls out of his mum's purse and done it. He may not have been king, but he'd still have been rich-and happy. I think he's going to marry her now, though. She has no ambitions to be queen, and has said so.
636
posted on
08/11/2003 2:00:59 PM PDT
by
Texan5
To: VRWCmember
A little nutmeg and cinnamon on mine, thanks.
637
posted on
08/11/2003 2:01:38 PM PDT
by
Argh
To: Texan5
William will be the next king.
638
posted on
08/11/2003 2:02:06 PM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: xsmommy
They're way too metro for me...
To: Agnes Heep; Flurry
You related to Uriah Heep? Or maybe Tom "Dung Heep" Harkin?
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