Word For The Day, Friday, August 22, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/22/03 | 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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rapacious \ruh-PAY-shus\, adjective:
rapaciousness, rapacity; noun
rapaciously; adverb

1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence.
3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious.

[Thy Lord] redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim
--Milton.

Etymology: [From Latin rap x, rap c-, from rapere, to seize. See rep- in Indo-European Roots.]

[RikaStrom]

Good Morning Students. Welcome to class! Glory, Glory… it is FRIDAY!

Class is now in session. The rules are simple; you get a grade if you use the WFTD in a sentence, haiku, limerick, or quatrain. You get a "+" if you make a link, or make the teacher laugh, or you offer the appropriate bribes. I hold the grade book; the whip and chair.

A Klein couple who claimed their house was burned in a hate crime admitted staging the blaze to collect on insurance.

I don't believe in the "hate crime" category personally. If I were to burn down your house, or you to burn down mine, that's a crime. Of course it's a hate crime, 'cause there definitely isn't any love being felt. Classify crime on it's merits. 'premeditated, act of passion, or degree of violence', but don't be adding in a nebulous concept of hate./side note soapbox

It's people like this, whose rapacious desire for quick cash, taint real crimes of cruelty and racism.

Hate Crime 'Victims' Admit ot Arson Scheme

Greed, rapaciously fed
Burnt down the house.
By racists it was said.
But really done by a louse!

[hobbes1]

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[RikaStrom]

Yea! It's FRIDAY!

[hobbes1]

Obviously, I can whenever i Want to.

[RikaStrom]

Yea! It's FRIDAY!

[RikaStrom]

Yea! It's FRIDAY!

[hobbes1]

YAAAAY! Commando Friday!!!!!!!

[RikaStrom]

Yea! It's FRIDAY!

[Gabz]

Hoowdy!!!!

[LonePalm]

First? Top Ten?

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[RikaStrom]

Goodness! Morning Tiger.

[RikaStrom]

Morning Gabz!

Morning Lone!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Wooohooo

[xsmommy]

do what? get here first? helped that i was in the shower, didn't it?

[Texan5]

Gray Davis called Clinton for assistance
But it didn't dampen the voters' resistance.
Perhaps it is his rapacious taxing
That's causing his political axing.

[camle]

thank the maker it's friday!!!

[hobbes1]

Don't even start. I used to make it a practice of beating you like a red-headed step child, and we both know it.



But, yes, it does make it even easier to know which day of the week you would be in the shower ; )

[Gabz]

Are you watching F& F right now????????

[hobbes1]

I only wish ; )

[xsmommy]

you mean anna and her shock absorber brasierre? i don't have a tv in the study, but i saw that a minute ago. also when richard simmons was being fed by the hooters girls.

come to think of it, since the fox studios are so close to the Tiger's ofc, seems he should just go on over there!