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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: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
If he's sick does he have to bring you a note from you? If so are you honest to you about why he isn't in class?
81 posted on 09/05/2003 6:06:08 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
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To: CholeraJoe; hobbes1; dubyaismypresident
oh God, don't open that can of worms again! we just had the breast beating and rending of garments over that earlier, and it was finally done !!
82 posted on 09/05/2003 6:07:14 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
I've had no inside pooping in several weeks. My pups together now weigh half as much as I do.
83 posted on 09/05/2003 6:08:26 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (In other news: Cruz Bustamante will neither confirm nor deny that he's a racist.)
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To: RikaStrom
OOps!!!!

Teaches me not to get on the phone - I forgot what I was doing!!!!
84 posted on 09/05/2003 6:09:52 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: CholeraJoe
they are monster boys. i am sure spending more time outside helps the potty training. this weekend, barring a reprise the continual RAINY SEASON, hopefully xs2pup will be out more. The grass is almost knee high bc they haven't been out to cut it, so it is like a jungle to him, and he doesn't care for getting his feet wet either, the little pansy.
85 posted on 09/05/2003 6:10:33 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
hehe ! Thanks ...

86 posted on 09/05/2003 6:11:27 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
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To: RikaStrom
It is a hectic pace here this morning as I am running up to school with newly hatching butterflies. One monarch out, two to go!
87 posted on 09/05/2003 6:13:16 AM PDT by secret garden (are you ready for some football?)
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To: hobbes1
i don;'t know, tiger. i don't see your girl listing you as among the amazing kissers, like Madonna and Colin Farrel. are you two on the wane?
88 posted on 09/05/2003 6:13:40 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: CholeraJoe
Piss Poor Coaching/Game planning.....No First Half Defense.

Mo Lewis passed up a kill shot on Ramsey in the first half, that gave up a 50 yard passplay.....


89 posted on 09/05/2003 6:14:03 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: xsmommy
That seems odd because spaniels are by nature water dogs. Not as water loving as labs who truly have webbed feet. I need to work with Middy this weekend. He's not as good at retrieving as his brother. Maybe he'll have a better nose.
90 posted on 09/05/2003 6:14:10 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (In other news: Cruz Bustamante will neither confirm nor deny that he's a racist.)
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To: CSM; Flurry
It seems I'm the one that should be derided, at least by mr. Flurry - I've been promising to ping you here - but I hadn't.

Forgiveness, please guys????
91 posted on 09/05/2003 6:14:45 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: xsmommy
That's because she was talking about kissing on the mouth...
92 posted on 09/05/2003 6:15:22 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: CholeraJoe
oh i wanted to tell you i think he might be entering puberty. xsbrownie mentioned to me from the backseat of the van yesterday when i picked her up, and she had xs2pup back there with her, that his peep looked SORE, that it was very red... then later she said it was ok. i was dying, but didn't say anything to her. last night, when we were reading in her room, xs2pup was humping one of her teddy bears. oh good grief!
93 posted on 09/05/2003 6:16:47 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
ROTFL....xs2pup had the lipstick out???????
94 posted on 09/05/2003 6:17:36 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: xsmommy
LulaBelle, who has no qualms about jumping in a lake or ocean, doesn't like for her precious paws to touch wet grass either.
95 posted on 09/05/2003 6:18:39 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Je pense que ce vin a deja ete bu.)
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To: hobbes1
that's what i am thinking. she said it was very red and bubbly and she said it looked sore.
96 posted on 09/05/2003 6:18:43 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Laura Earl
xsbrownie insists that we look for little booties for him.
97 posted on 09/05/2003 6:19:16 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: RikaStrom
Do not miss this by Mrs Clarence Thomas.
98 posted on 09/05/2003 6:20:46 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Now whose dog is an interspecies homo? Can I get a picture of him humping Teddy?
99 posted on 09/05/2003 6:23:48 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (In other news: Cruz Bustamante will neither confirm nor deny that he's a racist.)
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To: xsmommy
So, Last night I take Wolfgang to school with me, and Prof. Kirkland is talking about gathering news form indiginous middle east sources, but not American news, so I said..

If we can only use Unamerican news, won't CNN do....?

So while she's rolling her eyes, I asked Wolf out loud, "Wolf, Why don't we watch CNN ?"

And he jumps out of his seat and yells quite gleefully "Because they Lie..!"

100 posted on 09/05/2003 6:25:27 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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