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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: hobbes1
But I'm not...
You may be the first person I've met who actually listens to the band while you're straight.
To: secret garden; hobbes1; Hegewisch Dupa
oh he listened while Gay also, don't kid yourself... ; )
502
posted on
08/14/2003 12:28:54 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
If you're stoned they are great. The rest of us like music.
503
posted on
08/14/2003 12:30:23 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Flurry
i should make my mom put her hand in to get the keys... since she was defending what he did.
To: xsmommy
hubby pointed it out to me last night, he had seen it before.
505
posted on
08/14/2003 12:30:36 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: hobbes1
That's The Who.
506
posted on
08/14/2003 12:32:31 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Flurry
My point, exactly.
To: Flurry
That's Emerson Lake and Palmer.
508
posted on
08/14/2003 12:33:43 PM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: hobbes1
Sorry I meant Emerson Lake and Palmer.
509
posted on
08/14/2003 12:33:54 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Flurry
Have you started your after work beverages?
To: xsmommy
I actually have an Insane Clown Posse cassette tape..... they are pretty horrifying and obsene and offensive. It's the kind of music my best friend and I listen to when we are in the car together. Eminem is another fav of ours for our car rides. We rarely get to see each other these days though since she moved. If we are hanging around the house we listen to the much more tame Tori Amos.
To: honeygrl
Good Idea. Grandmother's can be a pain on grandsons. My mom still acts like Flurry Jr's poop didn't stink. Heck he was her 5th or 6th grandson, she wasn't that way about the others.
512
posted on
08/14/2003 12:36:23 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Flurry
Sorry, LOL, but Country Music....isn't. ; )
513
posted on
08/14/2003 12:36:47 PM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: hobbes1
Corrected myself at the same time you corrected me.
514
posted on
08/14/2003 12:37:30 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: secret garden
NOPE. I'm posting from my comments page a lot, cuz it's a bit hectic rat now so I screw up a tad.
515
posted on
08/14/2003 12:38:57 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: hobbes1
what say you about Johnny Cash then? Choose wisely....
To: hobbes1
That might be your opinion.
517
posted on
08/14/2003 12:41:07 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
Hank (Jr.),Johnny, and David Allen Coe are all tolerable...going from there, the closest I can tolerate is suthren Rock, or Rockabilly.
518
posted on
08/14/2003 12:41:22 PM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
pumping gas is man's work too.
To: hobbes1
"Sorry, LOL, but Country Music....isn't CRAP". I liked Pink Floyd, ELP, Led Zep, and a lot of other's but the only decent new music is coming out of Nashville. Other than that I'll take Classic and Oldies.
520
posted on
08/14/2003 12:43:03 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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