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Word For The Day, Friday, September 5, 2003
The Verbivores | 9/5/03 | Teacher

Posted on 09/05/2003 5:03:08 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....


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.]


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To: dubyaismypresident
isn't that your parents alma mater?
261 posted on 09/05/2003 9:43:40 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Texan5
Happy Birthday Texan!
262 posted on 09/05/2003 9:43:48 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Hey, it's me......remember me?)
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To: xsmommy
Gee you almost would think that underage drinking goes on at Pitt!!!

College kids drinking? That never happens. LMAO.

263 posted on 09/05/2003 9:44:38 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
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To: dubyaismypresident
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....
264 posted on 09/05/2003 9:46:16 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
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.

265 posted on 09/05/2003 9:46:25 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
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To: xsmommy
Shameless shilling for Pitt....
266 posted on 09/05/2003 9:47:02 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
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To: dubyaismypresident
bc of my ERA, i cannot think of Kent State w/o hearing CSNY singing FOUR DEAD IN OHIO....
267 posted on 09/05/2003 9:47:21 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: dubyaismypresident
actually we are hoping that she applies and gets into Grove City.
268 posted on 09/05/2003 9:47:48 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: dubyaismypresident
either GC or be a Y'town PENGUIN!
269 posted on 09/05/2003 9:49:22 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
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.

270 posted on 09/05/2003 9:54:27 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
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To: xsmommy
Tin soldiers and Nixons coming

We're finally on our own
this summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio....
271 posted on 09/05/2003 9:54:39 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: xsmommy
Is your ERA under 4.00, by the way?
272 posted on 09/05/2003 9:55:00 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa (shameless dopey baseball joke)
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To: hobbes1
what, you heard that in K?
273 posted on 09/05/2003 9:55:40 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
I like Neil Young....His attitude is a little misplaced, but
he is really good.....
274 posted on 09/05/2003 9:56:50 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
nyuck, nyuck, ya stooge....


275 posted on 09/05/2003 9:56:53 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1
i was a little left wing 8th grade activist at the time.
276 posted on 09/05/2003 9:57:25 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Hegewisch Dupa; xsmommy
I think when she sez ERA she means the era of the E.R.A. and bra burning and that sort of stuff....
277 posted on 09/05/2003 9:57:42 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1; Hegewisch Dupa
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.

278 posted on 09/05/2003 10:00:26 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1
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.
279 posted on 09/05/2003 10:00:31 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
what are the point of panties anyway?
280 posted on 09/05/2003 10:00:52 AM PDT by xsmommy
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