Word For The Day, Friday, September 5, 2003

The Verbivores | 9/5/03 | 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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deride \de*ride\, verb:
deriding, derides, derided; transitive verb
derider; derision noun
deridingly; adverb

1. To speak of or treat with contemptuous mirth.
2. To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
3. Contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule.
4. A state of being derided.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.
--William Safire, "The Counter-Revolution," New York Times, May 22, 1989

Etymology: [Latin d r d re : d -, de- + r d re, to laugh at.]

[xsmommy]

isn't that your parents alma mater?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Happy Birthday Texan!

[NeoCaveman]

Gee you almost would think that underage drinking goes on at Pitt!!!

College kids drinking? That never happens. LMAO.

[xsmommy]

i emailed the police blotter page to my niece who is a HS senior this year, informing her that this is where the INTELLIGENTSIA go to school... me, and both of her parents....

[NeoCaveman]

isn't that your parents alma mater?

My mom went to Kent and so did most of her sibs. It was pretty cool when they went to the Sweet Sixteen a few years ago by beating Pitt in the tourney.

[NeoCaveman]

Shameless shilling for Pitt....

[xsmommy]

bc of my ERA, i cannot think of Kent State w/o hearing CSNY singing FOUR DEAD IN OHIO....

[xsmommy]

actually we are hoping that she applies and gets into Grove City.

[xsmommy]

either GC or be a Y'town PENGUIN!

[NeoCaveman]

actually we are hoping that she applies and gets into Grove City.

Dr. Walter Williams said some great things about Grove City on Rush's show today.

[hobbes1]

Tin soldiers and Nixons coming

We're finally on our own
this summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio....

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Is your ERA under 4.00, by the way?

[xsmommy]

what, you heard that in K?

[hobbes1]

I like Neil Young....His attitude is a little misplaced, but
he is really good.....

[xsmommy]

nyuck, nyuck, ya stooge....

[xsmommy]

i was a little left wing 8th grade activist at the time.

[hobbes1]

I think when she sez ERA she means the era of the E.R.A. and bra burning and that sort of stuff....

[xsmommy]

i was in favor of that back in 8th grade.

as a point of contrast, i went off to xshub the other day, when i saw 2 women sportscasters on the TV at the same time, no men on the screen. i said that is just plain wrong. how the hell many women are interested in sports? not enough to justify 2 women, w/ NO MEN on the screen, discussing sports!! he agreed with me of course. i am generally against women sportscasters.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

I'd heard that she wanted to take things one step further for the sisterhood and burnt her panties too. Thus was the origin of the XS commando tradition.

[xsmommy]

what are the point of panties anyway?