Word For the Day, Thursday, August 14, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/14/03 | 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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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."

[hobbes1]

Exactly. xs feels the same way, but is too RETICENT to admit it.

[secret garden]

I love when I trick him into agreeing with me.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

don't be so sure...

Good athlete too. What a shock

[Gabz]

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.

[Gabz]

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!!!

[Gabz]

The legs explain besting the 5yo and the dog, but can't account for the fact I didn't get winded!!!!!

[xsmommy]

well so long as i massage other things, he doesn't mind the bag salad.... ; )

[VRWCmember]

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?

[xsmommy]

count me in, vast!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Bridal.

[secret garden]

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.

[hobbes1]

I love when I trick him

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

[secret garden]

Is your selectivity limited to the classroom or does your wife have to suffer it too? ;)

[Laura Earl]

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.

[Gabz]

Me too!!!!!!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

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.

[xsmommy]

don't know what kind of stores you have there, but for dresses i find Lord and Taylor and Bloomingdales have the best selection.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

and hootchie-mama is a 'terrible' choice since when??????

[Laura Earl]

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.

[Gabz]

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$