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Word For the Day, Thursday, August 14, 2003
The Verbivores | 8/14/03 | Teacher

Posted on 08/14/2003 5:23:23 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....


scintilla \sin-TIL-uh\, noun
scintillant; adjective

1. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount; the slightest particle; a trace
2. A spark; a flash.
3. Miniscule

In victory, they must hold on to at least a scintilla of humility, lest they get too cocky -- and ripe for a takedown.
--Bill Breen, "'We are literally trying to stop time,'" Fast Company, May 2000

Etymology: Latin scintilla, "a spark, a glimmer, a faint trace." Also from scintilla is the verb scintillate, "to sparkle."


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To: secret garden
Exactly. xs feels the same way, but is too RETICENT to admit it.
201 posted on 08/14/2003 9:10:17 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: xsmommy; hobbes1
I love when I trick him into agreeing with me.
202 posted on 08/14/2003 9:11:59 AM PDT by secret garden (now what?)
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To: xsmommy
don't be so sure...

Good athlete too. What a shock

203 posted on 08/14/2003 9:12:09 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: xsmommy
I have played very little golf since Jax came along. About 2 weeks after I finished taking lessons I found out I was pregnant and hubby had already bought me a set of clubs for Christmas. I think I have used them 3 times!!!

Your club sounds great, and I can understand the lack of snootiness. I always loved being invited over to DAFB.

For our regular Friday afternoon date hubby and I have decided to see if we can find a watering hole closer to home than the one we normally go to - he figures with Wallops so close to us, there have got to be some places in that vicinity.
204 posted on 08/14/2003 9:12:20 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: Slip18
I always went swimming with my granmother, my mother didn't swim, but my grandmother was unbelievable.....and she was always a smoker and a drinker. Even when I was a kid I usually gave up long before she did.

Those swimming lessons I took way back when still come in handy!!!
205 posted on 08/14/2003 9:15:02 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: secret garden
The legs explain besting the 5yo and the dog, but can't account for the fact I didn't get winded!!!!!
206 posted on 08/14/2003 9:16:31 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: hobbes1; secret garden
well so long as i massage other things, he doesn't mind the bag salad.... ; )
207 posted on 08/14/2003 9:16:33 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: RikaStrom; xsmommy; Laura Earl; Gabz; Slip18; secret garden; honeygrl; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; ...
There is not even a scintilla of modesty, decency, or even common sense at the online retailer, Freshpair.com, who "wants people to flash a little thong, reveal a bra strap or offer a peek of their boxers as a show of support for the proposed National Underwear Day".

Americans Encouraged to Bare Underwear - NEW YORK — Liberate your undies!

I say boycott their silly National Underwear Day by going commando. What do you say ladies, Commando Friday tomorrow?

208 posted on 08/14/2003 9:17:08 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember
count me in, vast!
209 posted on 08/14/2003 9:20:28 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Bridal.
210 posted on 08/14/2003 9:22:34 AM 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: VRWCmember
I agree with the one who said having underwear show is the sign of a sloppy dresser. I scold the teenage boys at the gym to pull up their shorts - if we wanted to see their underwear, we'd hang out in the locker room. Do they think it turns anyone on? It doesn't, unless it's a teenybopper who's into slobs.
211 posted on 08/14/2003 9:24:45 AM PDT by secret garden (now what?)
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To: secret garden
I love when I trick him

Admitting to turning tricks is no way for a lady toa ct.

212 posted on 08/14/2003 9:25:36 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1
Is your selectivity limited to the classroom or does your wife have to suffer it too? ;)
213 posted on 08/14/2003 9:27:49 AM PDT by secret garden (now what?)
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To: Flurry; xsmommy
I hung around the mall to look at dresses. Choices are horrible...either frumpy or hootchie-momma. For Flurrette's wedding, I need something in between.
214 posted on 08/14/2003 9:29:24 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Never wear panties to a party!)
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To: xsmommy; VRWCmember
Me too!!!!!!!!
215 posted on 08/14/2003 9:30:14 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: Gabz
So many live style issues address your health. Smoke Gnatzies compare 80 year old smokers to 30 year old non- smokers. As you know smoking gets blamed as the culprit for any malady a smoker may have. "He's fat because he smokes". "She has rickets because she smokes". "He died after being drug 2 miles by 18 wheeler because he smokes". "She has male pattern baldness because she smokes". "Whoopie Goldberg is black because she smokes." "Uday and Quesay, cause of death Smoking". Smoke is the ultimate evil.
216 posted on 08/14/2003 9:31:11 AM 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: Laura Earl
don't know what kind of stores you have there, but for dresses i find Lord and Taylor and Bloomingdales have the best selection.
217 posted on 08/14/2003 9:31:16 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Laura Earl
and hootchie-mama is a 'terrible' choice since when??????
218 posted on 08/14/2003 9:32:27 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: xsmommy
uh-oh...sounds like a road trip in my immediate future. We have neither store in Bham. We have a Saks, and I haven't checked them out yet.
219 posted on 08/14/2003 9:33:43 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Never wear panties to a party!)
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To: hobbes1; Flurry; dubyaismypresident
who was it that made the Green Acres comment in reference to my question about Ariana Huffington's voice grating on me???

Arianna Huffington's Green Acre$

220 posted on 08/14/2003 9:34:01 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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