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Word For The Day, Monday, August 18, 2003
The Verbivores | 8/18/03 | Teacher

Posted on 08/18/2003 5:28:51 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....


stolid \STAH-luhd\, adjective:
stolidity, stolidness; noun
stolidly; adverb

1. Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
2. Not easily aroused or excited
3. Dull; impassive.

He destroys the public for historical work by convincing it that history is synonymous with heavy, stolid prosing.
--Allan Nevins, "What's the Matter With History?"

Etymology: [Latin stolidus, stupid. See stel- in Indo-European Roots.]


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To: xsmommy
Good Friday and Midnight Mass used to do it to me. I think they must not use as much incense at a time as they used to, because now it doesn't bother me at all.
341 posted on 08/18/2003 10:27:34 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: xsmommy
How did you know it was a HDO?
342 posted on 08/18/2003 10:27:58 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: xsmommy
I see the resemblance...
343 posted on 08/18/2003 10:28:02 AM PDT by Argh
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To: honeygrl
The spoilsport!
344 posted on 08/18/2003 10:28:26 AM PDT by Argh
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To: Gabz
She looks like she has quite a bit of Lab in her background.
345 posted on 08/18/2003 10:28:33 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (If Rudy Bakhtiar had no teeth, could she still lie through her gums?)
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To: Argh
Little Flurry is appropriate sense he is not 6'2" 190 lb like Big Flurry. Just close.
346 posted on 08/18/2003 10:28:35 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
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To: Flurry
tripod!
347 posted on 08/18/2003 10:29:45 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Never wear panties to a party!)
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To: hobbes1
cause i am smart.
348 posted on 08/18/2003 10:30:04 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Laura Earl
Yup, that's what they call me.
349 posted on 08/18/2003 10:30:07 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: Flurry; Laura Earl
Just close? Man, Laura Earl must be SOME woman!!
350 posted on 08/18/2003 10:30:12 AM PDT by Argh
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To: Laura Earl
"Flurry tells a funny tale about he and one of his brothers grossing out their dad by talking about going downtown. "

All it takes to embarrass my dad is to say the word "sex." My mom, brother, and I once just started inserting the word randomly into a conversation in a restaurant with my dad and his face was beet red and I thought he was going to get up and leave. It was hilarious!
351 posted on 08/18/2003 10:30:15 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: xsmommy
rme.....Who told you ?
352 posted on 08/18/2003 10:30:30 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: Argh
;)
353 posted on 08/18/2003 10:30:42 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Never wear panties to a party!)
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To: Laura Earl
I'll save that for another place we have gotten trashy enough already.
354 posted on 08/18/2003 10:30:42 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
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To: hobbes1
the priest at Mass the previous Sunday.
355 posted on 08/18/2003 10:31:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Argh
: P
356 posted on 08/18/2003 10:31:50 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Flurry
Yep, we have gotten pretty trashy.
357 posted on 08/18/2003 10:31:54 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Never wear panties to a party!)
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To: CholeraJoe
Her front ground too.
358 posted on 08/18/2003 10:32:01 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
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To: xsmommy
Well isn't that special....
359 posted on 08/18/2003 10:32:06 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (California is like Sweden, except in Sweden the blondes are real.)
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To: CholeraJoe
One of her parents is a black lab, I assume the mother (hubby didn't tell me).

It's probably a similar case to the parentage of my other girl - a neighbor dog got loose...................
360 posted on 08/18/2003 10:32:34 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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