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Word For The Day, Friday, September 5, 2003
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| 9/5/03
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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
To: Texan5
Happy Birthday Texan!
To: xsmommy
Gee you almost would think that underage drinking goes on at Pitt!!! College kids drinking? That never happens. LMAO.
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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 @$$ tomorrow.)
To: dubyaismypresident
i emailed the police blotter page to my niece who is a HS senior this year, informing her that this is where the INTELLIGENTSIA go to school... me, and both of her parents....
264
posted on
09/05/2003 9:46:16 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
isn't that your parents alma mater? My mom went to Kent and so did most of her sibs. It was pretty cool when they went to the Sweet Sixteen a few years ago by beating Pitt in the tourney.
265
posted on
09/05/2003 9:46:25 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
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 @$$ tomorrow.)
To: dubyaismypresident
bc of my ERA, i cannot think of Kent State w/o hearing CSNY singing FOUR DEAD IN OHIO....
267
posted on
09/05/2003 9:47:21 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: dubyaismypresident
actually we are hoping that she applies and gets into Grove City.
268
posted on
09/05/2003 9:47:48 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: dubyaismypresident
either GC or be a Y'town PENGUIN!
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posted on
09/05/2003 9:49:22 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
actually we are hoping that she applies and gets into Grove City. Dr. Walter Williams said some great things about Grove City on Rush's show today.
270
posted on
09/05/2003 9:54:27 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
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" ;)
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)
To: hobbes1
what, you heard that in K?
273
posted on
09/05/2003 9:55:40 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
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" ;)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
nyuck, nyuck, ya stooge....
275
posted on
09/05/2003 9:56:53 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: hobbes1
i was a little left wing 8th grade activist at the time.
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posted on
09/05/2003 9:57:25 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
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" ;)
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.
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posted on
09/05/2003 10:00:26 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
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.
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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