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Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 12, 2003
The Verbivores | 8/12/03 | Teacher

Posted on 08/12/2003 5:23:18 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....


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).]


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To: secret garden
That would be below 50
561 posted on 08/12/2003 2:57:22 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
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To: Gabz
Email them to me. I do really ggod work with used wood on old homes.
562 posted on 08/12/2003 2:58:10 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
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To: Gabz
Where?
563 posted on 08/12/2003 3:03:08 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
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To: Flurry
On the 50s women thread where the one jagoff had a hissy fit on Slip18
564 posted on 08/12/2003 3:07:39 PM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: Texan5
I'm so lazy, I'd end up hanging out the dirty clothes until it rained and then bringing them in after they dried....
565 posted on 08/12/2003 3:16:28 PM PDT by honeygrl ("All of us knew he(Clinton) was a snake when we voted for him" - Patricia Ireland, President of NOW)
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To: Gabz; Slip18
I'm about to have some really fresh sheets and towels tomorrow-I hurried to put out the laundry as soon as I got home hoping it might be dry by dark, and it just started pouring down rain. Good thing I don't need that stuff right now!
566 posted on 08/12/2003 3:18:07 PM PDT by Texan5
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To: honeygrl
I've been tempted more than once to do that...just pour liquid detergent on the laundry and hang it out when it is raining.
567 posted on 08/12/2003 3:20:06 PM PDT by Texan5
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To: honeygrl; Texan5
When my sister from Tahoe came to SoCal to see her son graduate from the Marine Academy, her husband stayed home to take care of the horses. I drove her and a few others home to Tahoe.

When we got there, we saw the most hysterical sight in the whole world. It was my BIL's 50 pairs of white socks hanging on the line FROZEN. I never laughed so hard in my life.

He would then take one pair off the line at a time, put the pair on the oven to warm them.

I know I have a photo of this somewhere.

568 posted on 08/12/2003 3:24:47 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: VRWCmember
What you said in that thread was true. Honestly.

I did send that person a nice FReepmail, but the funny thing is, I think we've had conversations before, but I don't know when. I did a search on her name, and it was already there on the scroll down thingy. I must find out how I offended the woman.

569 posted on 08/12/2003 3:27:24 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Slip18
Although it was messy, I loved that mulberry tree. My parents have moved from that house, and the people who bought it cut it down. :(
570 posted on 08/12/2003 3:42:45 PM PDT by Laura Earl
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To: All
Gee, I just went back to the Women in the 50s thread, and the Deejay apparently skeedaddled. She did her snappy comeback at Cyber, he said he would crap on her parade..., then I went off on her and BOOM! She was gone. I guess we skeerd her. Yes we take care of our own!

I love you guys...*sniff*
571 posted on 08/12/2003 3:51:05 PM PDT by Laura Earl
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To: Slip18
I must find out how I offended the woman.

Although it looked like her reply was to your "Now I know you're joking" post, I think it was probably the post immediately prior to it:

"Families were happier back in the '50's. I didn't know one family that wasn't "happy." (And I knew a lot of people.)"

It's really nice being blind, isn't it?

She might have taken the "nice being blind" comment as insulting rather than the joking and playful spirit in which I knew you meant it. I still think she overreacted and was too quick to lash back, but I can see how someone unfamiliar with you might misinterpret that one comment.
572 posted on 08/12/2003 3:54:46 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Laura Earl; All
Group hug:

(((((((((((()))))))))))

LOL! *sniff* LOL!

573 posted on 08/12/2003 3:55:22 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: VRWCmember; Lazamataz
You are right.

It's just when I saw Laz in there, I thought it was a joking thread. And I'm all for those around here. So it's Laz's fault! LOL!

574 posted on 08/12/2003 3:59:31 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Slip18; Lazamataz

Well, doesn't that just make our naughty parts tingle.

575 posted on 08/12/2003 4:04:42 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Gabz
I knew I was jus bean my ignert self. I like the way we all ganged up on seeral bad outsiders today. its nice to have a fambly on line. Night Gabz
576 posted on 08/12/2003 4:19:43 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
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To: Slip18; Lazamataz
"So it's Laz's fault! LOL! "

Everything is his fault. :) You know, it was his fault that I didn't get to go to the Atlanta FReep of Hillery!



(just kidding dear, unless you work for the DMV)
577 posted on 08/12/2003 4:20:13 PM PDT by honeygrl ("All of us knew he(Clinton) was a snake when we voted for him" - Patricia Ireland, President of NOW)
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To: secret garden
Only 1 alien I could recognize, but he had his passport (hence, my recognition of him as alien), was learning to speak english very well, and excited that he was getting his license!
578 posted on 08/12/2003 4:27:06 PM PDT by theDentist (Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
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To: honeygrl; Lazamataz
Did Laz tie you up in the janitor's closet? It sure looked as if the fur handcuffs had been used.
579 posted on 08/12/2003 4:37:11 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Slip18; Lazamataz
LOL Made me wear the spiked heels too.
580 posted on 08/12/2003 4:50:22 PM PDT by honeygrl ("All of us knew he(Clinton) was a snake when we voted for him" - Patricia Ireland, President of NOW)
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