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).]

[Argh]

Good chocolates! Oh, man, now I'm all hungry again...

[Laura Earl]

Headed to the gym....see you'uns tomorrow.

[Slip18]

The only thing I have against her, little miss moral me, is that they were doing each other when each other was married to someone else. It must have been terrible for Di knowing at any time his infidelities would be known to the world.

[Texan5]

I have a friend that owns one of those places. He was the one who told us that new houses can have ghosts, if they are built on haunted ground, which, according to our neighbors, this property is. She is harmless-just noisy sometimes-she actually touched my hubby's face one afternoon when he was half asleep in the swing on the deck. Hey, wait a minute! The realtor who sold us this land didn't tell us it was haunted! Is there a lawyer in the house-xsmommy, where are you? Do I have a case, and if I ever want to sell the property,do I have to disclose that the place is spooked?

[Slip18]

"But he still should have taken his balls out of his mum's purse and done it."

He'll never take his huevos out of mummy's purse. And she knows it. That is why William will be King.

[Slip18]

Have a great workout, Laura!

[Texan5]

What is so weird is that Di's dirt came out first! I still think Charles had something to do with that, so when the s**t hit the fan he would not look so bad.

[secret garden]

Whatchootalkinbout Willis?

[Argh]

If you disclose the place is spooked, they might toss you into the loony bin!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Isn't that Heap?

[secret garden]

Did he surprise himself by vacationing in Key West after the vote? I doubt it. That's the only place they wouldn't have slammed him.

[Slip18]

I had a ghost and a poltergeist in my home one time. The ghost was of a sailor. He just scared my two sisters and me. The poltergeist would hide things on us.

Never had anything before nor after. So I think it may have been real.

Lived on a hill in Laguna Beach, CA. Where the home was located, you could see all the way to Dana Point (south) and all the way to Newport Beach (north). It would have been a great place for a sailor to scan the ocean.

[Texan5]

I think so, too. That would solve everyone's problems all neat and tidy. The British populace can keep grousing over what he did to Di forever, but it won't matter if he doesn't become king.

[TheGrimReaper]

Yes, but I demand a little literary license here.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I ain't even got my literary learner's permit.

[Texan5]

Actually, haunted properties are very common in these old ranching/farming areas like this one and very well accepted. Our road, and the five nearest us used to be one huge ranch, and the same family still ranches and lives on the part they didn't sell right at the end of our road. Back in 1960, their parents saw a way to make money off a part of their land that was too hilly and rocky for cattle or crops, and sold it to a developer in acreage tracts.

Everyone who is anyone has at least one ghost, and brags about it. This is one of the most haunted areas in Texas, according to one book on the subject. There are some pretty strict disclosure laws, though when selling property. There has actually already been a lawsuit over a haunting, but I don't think I ever heard whether the buyer or seller won.

[Texan5]

My parents' house was haunted, but none of the spirits ever bothered anyone, so we just got used to them. One of my friends has a poltergeist in the house they just bought. It likes to knock full coffee cups off the drainboard. The one here sometimes hides things, but that is not as bad as when she runs up and down the loft and stairway, which makes the dogs bark, and frightened my next door neighbor half to death one day when she was here visiting.

[honeygrl]

That is her with the short on on that thread. The same photo is on her website. Looks like she's not wearing much but the shirt, but there's no way to tell for sure. Guess she wants to leave it up to your imagination. lol

[Texan5]

She doesn't even look old enough to be a sophmore in high school!

[honeygrl]

"I didn't know that little shrimp Gary Coleman from Diffrent Strokes was running. Fox and Friends had him on this morning. "

He is a sad, spiteful little man these days. I saw him on this celebrity blind date show and mostly he talked about how pissed he was at hollywood and how much Different Strokes killed his career. (he doesn't realize that was likely his only chance at a career in hollywood) He acts like a little boy too and plays with trains at some club a lot. I mean, he seemed really really really pathetic. The girl on the date with him ditched him before it was supposed to be over.