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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: xsmommy
Well, if you would have offered BEFORE we actually got there... ; )
341
posted on
09/05/2003 12:43:37 PM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: hobbes1
342
posted on
09/05/2003 12:44:54 PM PDT
by
secret garden
(are you ready for some football?)
To: secret garden
A QB who can break a linebackers leg is one helluva QB. GOod taste, SG.
To: xsmommy; secret garden; Gabz; Flurry; Laura Earl; Slip18
Hey, did the Admin Mod ping you guys to
this thread? I got pinged to it by him/her and made the horrifying mistake of clicking the link someone posted showing the offending photo. Advice: don't click it. I was wishing afterward it had just been a naked Hillary pic and wish there was a way to delete memory cells in my brain now.
344
posted on
09/05/2003 12:49:03 PM PDT
by
honeygrl
(Jacksonville Beach HERE I COME!! Everyone beware! Female looking for fun on the way soon!)
To: honeygrl
After that note there is NO WAY I'd go there!
345
posted on
09/05/2003 12:51:18 PM PDT
by
secret garden
(are you ready for some football?)
To: secret garden
i am trying to make this work</font color="8A2BE2">did it work?
346
posted on
09/05/2003 12:51:19 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
ok, i turned it on, don't know how to turn it off now....
347
posted on
09/05/2003 12:51:38 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: CholeraJoe
My pups together now weigh half as much as I do. Is this a math quiz?
348
posted on
09/05/2003 12:51:41 PM PDT
by
doubled
(Fantasy - it can work both ways)
To: xsmommy
A demo and tutorial at the same time!
349
posted on
09/05/2003 12:52:02 PM PDT
by
secret garden
(are you ready for some football?)
To: doubled; CholeraJoe
notice that CJ did not say that his TWO BOYS together now weigh half what he does....
350
posted on
09/05/2003 12:52:36 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
</font>.
351
posted on
09/05/2003 12:53:19 PM PDT
by
secret garden
(are you ready for some football?)
To: secret garden
ok so this. but then this takes it off?
352
posted on
09/05/2003 12:54:26 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
Yep. Good job!
353
posted on
09/05/2003 12:55:04 PM PDT
by
secret garden
(are you ready for some football?)
To: secret garden
I THINK that i got it.
354
posted on
09/05/2003 12:55:23 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
The thread itself is OK (there is just a link to the image, not the image itself) and informative if the photo somehow ended up in your "my comments" page. They are telling people that if it's stuck there, they can't delete it. The person put the photo in replies to people and they can delete the post but can't remove it from your "my comments" page.
355
posted on
09/05/2003 12:55:26 PM PDT
by
honeygrl
(Jacksonville Beach HERE I COME!! Everyone beware! Female looking for fun on the way soon!)
To: xsmommy
If you wanted pale blue, it didn't work.
356
posted on
09/05/2003 12:55:29 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
To: secret garden
354 is just me typing in font="purple" instead of the codes, per Hobbes MR KNOW IT ALL, suggestion. notice that is a diff shade than the one i used the code for?
357
posted on
09/05/2003 12:56:26 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Flurry
dang it, it didn't???
358
posted on
09/05/2003 12:57:12 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
No it's still not on to start with.
359
posted on
09/05/2003 12:58:41 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
To: xsmommy
Nope
360
posted on
09/05/2003 12:58:58 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
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