Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 12, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/12/03 | 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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attenuate \at*ten*u*ate\, verb; adjective
attenuating, attenuates, attenuated; intransitive verb
attenuation; noun

1. To make slender, fine, or small: The drought attenuated the river to a narrow channel.
2. To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken: Medicine attentuated the fever's effect.
3. To lessen the density of; rarefy.
4. Biology: To make (bacteria or viruses) less virulent.
5. Electronics.: To reduce (the amplitude of an electrical signal) with little or no distortion.
6. To become thin, weak, or fine.
7. Reduced or weakened, as in strength, value, or virulence.
8. Botany: Gradually tapering to a slender point.

We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. --Sir F. Palgrave

Etymology: [Latin attenu re, attenu t- : ad-, ad- + tenu re, to make thin (from tenuis, thin. See ten- in Indo-European Roots).]

[SCalGal]

xs2pup just the other day discovered the treasure trove under the kitchen table. xskids are filthy pigs that drop crumbs to the floor ALWAYS. yesterday he was busy as a bee under there.

Now THAT is one useful pup!

[Conspiracy Guy]

You need to quit pizzin these people off.

[Cyber Liberty]

If she took anything that happened in her pitiful life seriously, then she has earned her angst.

[Conspiracy Guy]

No she asked me to get you something but I keep coming up with recipes instead of food.

[Slip18]

I thought it was a joke thread. "All the Good Things You Remember From the 50s."

LOL!

I was a premie, but got to go home from the hospital with my mom. My sisters promptly picked me up and threw me down the stairs. I don't remember this, but I was told that!

So when Cyber asks me if I was dropped as a baby, I say, "Heck, no. I was thrown."

[Laura Earl]

I feel like I did too....burp!

[xsmommy]

mexican has more staying power than chinese.

[xsmommy]

i gotta retrieve xsboy from the golf course, i will see yunz all later.

[Laura Earl]

I just gave her a piece of my mind too, Slippy. She makes me sick to my stomach!

[Conspiracy Guy]

My basinette was turned over many times. I wanted to be a stunt man when I was young.

[xsmommy]

i gotta retrieve xsboy from the golf course, i will see yunz all later.

[Slip18]

I thought she was a he at first. I really thought it was a joke. I mean, come on, bringing in the laundry from the line after it froze. And it smells good? It smells like frost and bird doodoo. It has to be relaundered. Maybe the birds didn't do doodoos in those days.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Why doesn't she move back to the past where she obviously spends her time. Probably thinks that Truman is still the President.

[Laura Earl]

That was pre-bird doo-doo days.

By the late 60s and early 70s, they has started pooping. We had a mulberry tree in the backyard, which made for some interesting designs on the sheets hanging on the line.

[Laura Earl]

I'd like to punt her back!

[Cyber Liberty]

She's a retard, is what's going on.

[honeygrl]

She must be old. Next we'll see her on the news next to her neighbors dog saying "i must have hit the gas instead of the break..."


I should shut up before I get in trouble..

[Laura Earl]

She's almost 60 but looks 30. Whatcha wanna bet she looks like Helen Thomas?

[secret garden]

Did you have to wait for all the illegal aliens to get their licenses first?

[honeygrl]

ROFL! (at your take on it, not at you actually being thrown as a baby...) I'm so lucky the toddler hasn't done anything too bad to the baby yet. I think it's because he's not strong enough to lift her. He did kick her head into the door the other day... but not hard enough to really hurt her. She acted like he did though. Cried so loud I was worried my DFACS neighbor was going to come visit. She cries loud over everything though.