Word For The Day, Thursday, August 21, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/21/03 | 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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jocular; \Joc"u*lar\ adjective:
jocularity; noun
jocularity; adverb

1. Characterized by joking.
2. Given to joking.

Blues lyrics are no less dark when ("Nobody loves me but my mother / And she could be jiving too" -- B. B. King).
--Roy Blount Jr., "There's More to Southern Humor Than Foot-Long Pecan Rolls," New York Times, December 11, 1994

Etymology: [Latin iocul ris, droll, from ioculus, diminutive of iocus, joke. See yek- in Indo-European Roots.]

[camle]

i came, i saw, i bought

[Gabz]

Sounds like me.

Now I wish I could do the same with this daned resume of mine.

[Texan5]

Interesting article. I wondered what she was doing these days.

[camle]

sorry, I dont' know nothing bout no resumes.

[xsmommy]

Susan Estrich calls Arianna out for being a horrible mother. pretty funny.

[Texan5]

Lipstick. Most of the ones you see around here are. I think they know the all-out butch attire would offend the local business owners to the point that they would refuse them service. Yes, that still goes on out here-rural communities are not PC like cities, thank God. I did see a flamin'dyke on a motorcycle in going down the street one of them awhile back, though. I told hubby "Oh, look-a dyke on a bike"!

[secret garden]

Susan Estrich, with that Carol Channing voice and nervous tic, cuts to the chase while excoriating the jocular excuse for a candidate. She nails it this time.

[xsmommy]

are you feeling ok, camle? got an earache or anything... ? LMAO!!

[secret garden]

Pinky!

[Gabz]

I need to make some changes to it - like my address - but I don't have a back up on my hard drive so have to redo the bloody thing and I can't find the template I used and so am having to experiment with different ones and it is just out and out a pain in the rump.

and to top it off, I barely get 3 or 4 lines typed and the dog wants out. And before I even get back to my desk she want in again, and so I lose my momentum.

but I saw an ad in the paper yesterday for a job that fits my background to a tee so I want to get this thing done so I can get down there to apply for it.

It a position as Executive Director for a well known organization, and Executive Director/Association Management is what I have been doing since I left radio in 1985.

[xsmommy]

He later explained that he thought it was an ear inflammation that got down to his testicles," she added

[xsmommy]

: )

[white rose]

I am posting this column dealing with the unintentionally jocular campaign of Arianna Huffington merely because it marks the first, and I trust the last, time I agree with Susan Estrich. Amazing.

And get a load of that entourage Arianna's attracted--Al Franken, Bill Maher and Harry Shearer. Talk about Hell's Opening Act.

[Texan5]

"Mommy Dearest" comes to mind...

[Conspiracy Guy]

And the magic blackboard too. Mr Moose should get his own show.

[xsmommy]

[camle]

Oh no - no earache or anything close to it, thanx anyway. and I am NOT never ever to be confused, conceptually or otherwise, with xspup.

[Gabz]

One of the gals my husband works with is gay and I guess most people would consider her and her partner to be butch, only because they are both large women. But they are both always impecably groomed and made up and have fabulous taste in clothing.

When he has to work a late shift doing a system install, I am always much happier to know that he will be working with this particular colleague, unlike some of the married guys who use those night installs as excuses to go partying after work, she has a tendency to go straight home, or they will stop and have 1 or 2 beers before heading home.

[xsmommy]

but sweety, i think the inflammation may have travelled....

[camle]

I can see it now:

"The Great Gabz! Bossing folks around since 1985!"