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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.]
TOPICS: Education; Humor; Poetry; Word For The Day
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To: RikaStrom
OK
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:21:52 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
To: RikaStrom
That will depend on whether or not my daughter gets into Penn State...... tuition for 4 years is $72,000 IF you are in State..... add $40,000 to that if you move out of state....... I can live here for 4 more years to save that kind of money.....lol
To: CSM; Gabz
Howdy CSM and the ever lovely Miss Gamz
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:22:53 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
To: CSM
Very true CSM, and it's annoying the heck out of the rest of us.
A+
To: hobbes1
Morning Tiger
To: RikaStrom; yall
Mornin', Teach ! Mornin', everybody !!
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:23:46 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Holy Moses! I could live there four years for that too!
To: RikaStrom; Flurry
LOL....I think the teacher is deriding your butt......
To: MeeknMing
Morning Meek!
To: yall
The farmer and Roy the Rooster ... This farmer has about 200 hens, but no rooster, and he wants chicks. So, he goes down the road to the next farmer and asks if he has a rooster which he would sell. The other farmer says, "Yeah, I've got this great rooster named Roy. He'll service every chicken you got, no problem."
Well, Roy the rooster costs a lot of money, but the farmer decides he'd be worth it. So, he buys Roy. The farmer takes Roy home and sets him down in the barnyard. He gave the rooster a pep talk. "Roy, I want you to pace yourself now. You've got a lot of chickens to service here, and you cost me a lot of money. I'll need you to do a good job. So, take your time and have some fun," the farmer said, with a chuckle.
Roy seemed to understand, so the farmer points toward the hen house, and Roy took off like a shot. WHAM! - Roy nails every hen in the hen house -- three or four times --and the farmer is really shocked. After that the farmer hears a commotion in the duck pen. Sure enough, Roy is in there. Later, the farmer sees Roy after a flock of geese. Once again, WHAM! - He gets all the geese. By sunset he sees Roy out in the fields chasing quail and pheasants.
The farmer is distraught -- worried that his expensive rooster won't even last 24 hours. Sure enough, the farmer goes to bed and wakes up the next day, to find Roy dead as a doornail -- stone cold in the middle of the yard. Buzzards are circling overhead. The farmer, saddened by the loss of such a colorful and expensive animal,shakes his head and says, "Oh Roy, I told you to pace yourself. I tried to get you to slow down, now look what you've done to yourself."
Roy opens one eye, nods toward the buzzards circling in the sky and says, "Shhhh, they're getting closer... "
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:24:44 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
To: Flurry; Gabz; RikaStrom
Howdy CSM and the ever lovely Miss
Gamz Uh, Flurry, do you know something about the legs of Gabz that we don't know about??????????
To: Flurry
"I personally know that there is a tradition among presidents when they succeed one another," Sen. Clinton told AmeriCorps supporters Wednesday, in quotes reported late Thursday by the Associated Press. Wait, is she talking about the tradition that presidents respect the office, and officeholder by DISAPPEARING for a couple of years after their term expires?
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:26:01 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: RikaStrom
I would have been here sooner but I missed deride.
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:26:15 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
To: RikaStrom
i resemble that!
(skulking at the wet bar with that mysterious man in the long, black overcoat)
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:26:44 AM PDT
by
camle
(not even a water balloon fight can rouse these dullards!)
To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
She covets my Azz. But I'm not her neighbor so I guess it's OK. She doesn't read all Ten Commandments, just 7 or 8.
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:26:49 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
To: MeeknMing
ROFL...... I love that.......
To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Get her to post her Gamz pic.
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:27:52 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
To: dubyaismypresident
dubya, tell me...Who the F*** in their right mind tries the same running play on 3rd and 3 with two different running backs, with 4 minutes left in a tie game deep in your own territory??????
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:28:20 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: Flurry
There are 10???????
To: hobbes1
That would be the JETS!
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:29:19 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
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