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Word For The Day, Wednesday, August 20, 2003
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| 8/20/03
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Posted on 08/20/2003 5:17:27 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....
apathy; \Ap"a*thy\noun:
apathies; noun, plural
apathetic, apathetical; adjective
apathetically; adverb
1. Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference.
2. Lack of emotion or feeling; impassiveness.
3. Feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent.
4. Feeling or showing little or no emotion; unresponsive.
According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.
--Fleming.
Etymology: [Latin apath a, from Greek apatheia, from apath s, without feeling : a-, without; see a-1 + pathos, feeling; see kwent(h)- in Indo-European Roots.]
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To: LonePalm
Morning Loney!
You would have been proud of me, I altered a recipe all on my own last night.
I made Shrimp Monterey (scallops have too many carbs in them).
To: RikaStrom
ask the tiger he is the one that is all DEFENSIVE....
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:27:57 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: RikaStrom
Morning!
The apathetic Ratliff
Reminds me of McCain.
He needs to go away
Rather than remain.
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:28:05 AM PDT
by
Texan5
To: xsmommy; hobbes1
I don't care who started it, but try to remember some decorum. One classroom I saw the other day was way over the top, even for you two.
To: xsmommy
Is that a British word? I've never heard it.
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:30:01 AM PDT
by
Texan5
To: RikaStrom
oh COME ON, we were not the pepetrators of the trash talk in THAT CLASSROOM!
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:30:13 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: RikaStrom
it was her, because you coddle her, she thinks she can get away with anything.
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:30:18 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: xsmommy; RikaStrom
oh, right, what she said ; )
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:30:47 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: Texan5
it says origin unknown, but the novel i am reading was written by a Brit and you know they talk funny and use oddball words!
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:31:15 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: RikaStrom
if you are talking about bickering, i plead guilty, but i had no part in the discussion of public sex acts!!!
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:33:10 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
I know, and I will be speaking to those that were. But just because I haven't gotten around to it, is no reason to start going over the top yourselves.
To: RikaStrom
good morning folks! today's word kinda reminds me of gobbledegook. anybody remember that?
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:33:42 AM PDT
by
camle
(thanx fer asking)
To: RikaStrom
what did we do? if you think i am not going to bicker with him, you will have to bind and gag me!!!!
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:34:08 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: camle
Apathy reminds you of gobbledegook??
Your mind works in mysterious ways.
To: xsmommy
If you are chesty, I envy you. I am tall and curveless. I have been told that I have nice hair, though.
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:34:29 AM PDT
by
Texan5
To: xsmommy; RikaStrom
but i had no part in the discussion of public sex acts!!! Nor did I!!!!!
I am Shocked, Shocked.....
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:34:40 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: xsmommy
you will have to bind and gag me!!!! Hey, I thought you confined your sick fantasies to freepmail ; )
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:35:21 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: xsmommy
Hey, don't tempt her to bind and gag students! I don't think I would like to see that at all-worse than seeing public sex acts...
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:38:34 AM PDT
by
Texan5
To: RikaStrom
well... actually i am so apathetic towards today's word that I thought it was hob·ble·de·hoy, which reminds me of gobbledegook, which nobody seems to remember but me!
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:38:37 AM PDT
by
camle
(thanx fer asking)
To: Texan5
eastern europeans have big chests. it is a burden we must bear : )
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:39:07 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
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