Word For The Day, Wednesday, September 3, 2003

The Verbivores | 9/3/03 | 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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opacity \O*pac"i*ty\, noun:
opacities; noun, plural
opacitly; adverb

1. The quality or state of being opaque.
2. Something opaque.
3. Obscurity; impenetrability.
4. Dullness of mind.

The opacity of the logic of Runaway Dems has truly baffled me, don't they realize they are acting more like children than the adults they purport to be?
--RikaStrom, WFTD Teacher

Etymology: [French opacité, from Old French, from Latin op cit s, from op cus, dark.]

[xsmommy]

whatcha gonna plant? i am STILL waiting for them to come weed my bed! i guess since it has been raining like a sunuvagun they have not been here to cut the grass let alone weed! my mums are budding already. i forget how lng you are supposed to keep pinching off the buds before letting them bloom. do you know?

xshub's 65" tv was delivered today, but the dang cable hookup isn't working, so now we have to wait for the cable people to come tomorrow. COX S_X... cox communications that is. i know slippy agrees, as does cyber!

[xsmommy]

you are so considerate.. let me think on that....

[Laura Earl]

Along with pansies-I just love them...the flowers that is!

[xsmommy]

xsbrownie completed day 2 w/ nary a NURSE visit!

[Laura Earl]

I'm a huge fan of pansies, so I plant tons of them. Also a few mums, but we don't get along so well.

[xsmommy]

my pansies from last fall are looking kind of raggedy from the heat, but the mums always come back good.

[secret garden]

The male nurse? That is atypical, isn't it?

[Laura Earl]

When my mums start looking bad in late fall, I yank them up and plant something else. Same with pansies in the spring. Same with summer flowers in the fall. I'm gonna start yanking up the sad ones this afternoon! Flurry's lucky he looks good all the time. I'd toss him in the wheelbarrow too!

[secret garden]

Yellow mums and purple pansies and you're set till after Thanksgiving.

[Laura Earl]

Yes, that is very pretty. I like all the lavender/lilac/pink colored pansies too. One fall/winter I did my front yard in all pastels..it was gorgeous. I'll probably go bright this year. Just love color schemes-last summer I did the front in all white.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I'd toss him in the wheelbarrow too!

Sounds sexy!

[honeygrl]

"i am STILL waiting for them to come weed my bed! "

Are we talking about waxing again today?

[Laura Earl]

two words...chaise lounge.

[xsmommy]

no lawn people. i am currently waiting for the computer geek at home to come and fix this thing which has some sort of something wrong with it.

[honeygrl]

What is the computer doing (or not doing)?

[Conspiracy Guy]

You didn't get the "Dang dog turned off the CPU virus" from Gabz did you?

[xsmommy]

the thing gets completely overtaken by popups like every two seconds. the guy said he thinks that there is some parasitic spyware on it. he is now LATE and P'ing me O....

[xsmommy]

LMAO, we are now calling the axis of weasels chocolate makers!!!!

[xsmommy]

In unusually blunt language that drew surprised gasps from reporters, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher scoffed at Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg for continuing to support the proposal that they first introduced at a mini-summit in April. He described the April meeting as one between "four countries that got together and had a little bitty summit" and then referred to them collectively as "the chocolate makers."

meant to ping you too, vast! itty bitty summit of chocolate makers!!!

[honeygrl]

I bet you accidently let gator install itself. I did it once accidently and it was hell trying to get rid of it.