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Word For The Day
The Verbivores | 9/10/03 | Hobbes1 The Good Sub

Posted on 09/10/2003 6:09:42 AM PDT by hobbes1

xantippe noun
Pronunciation:zan*tip

Date: 14th century

1. shrewish wife of Socrates
2.figuratively, a bad-tempered woman

I am not Going there.....So have at it...


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To: dubyaismypresident; hobbes1
You two are asking for it today.
21 posted on 09/10/2003 6:35:11 AM PDT by secret garden (how do you fill your day?)
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To: dubyaismypresident; hobbes1
You are just asking for a beating, aren't you?
22 posted on 09/10/2003 6:37:30 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: hobbes1
Thank you, kind sir!
23 posted on 09/10/2003 6:38:27 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: xsmommy; hobbes1
By your own admission aren't you a Xantippe?
24 posted on 09/10/2003 6:40:25 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (In other news: Cruz Bustamante will neither confirm nor deny that he's a racist.)
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To: CholeraJoe; dubyaismypresident; hobbes1
Okay guys, line up.
25 posted on 09/10/2003 6:41:57 AM PDT by secret garden (how do you fill your day?)
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To: CholeraJoe
of course.
26 posted on 09/10/2003 6:42:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1
I watched a debate last night that had questions directed to 8 idiots and one Xantippe!
27 posted on 09/10/2003 6:42:04 AM PDT by CSM ("We have been assigned to the hall of Freep. No other work is allowed" - Equality 7-2521)
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To: dubyaismypresident
That document might as well be written in Sanskrit, it so obsolete.
28 posted on 09/10/2003 6:42:50 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
every time that she opened her mouth, xshub said "RECORDER OF DEEDS..... that's all you need to know...." LOL!
29 posted on 09/10/2003 6:42:54 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: dubyaismypresident
I might have known one of you guys was going to post that chauvinistic article just because the WFTD concerned shrewish wives..every time I see it, I want to smack the author upside the head.
30 posted on 09/10/2003 6:44:07 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: secret garden
Oh no. Not the Sumo Squirrel!
31 posted on 09/10/2003 6:44:26 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (In other news: Cruz Bustamante will neither confirm nor deny that he's a racist.)
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To: secret garden
Dominatrix squirrel?
32 posted on 09/10/2003 6:45:21 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: Flurry
No xantippes allowed in the walnutter party!
33 posted on 09/10/2003 6:45:42 AM PDT by CSM ("We have been assigned to the hall of Freep. No other work is allowed" - Equality 7-2521)
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To: Texan5
They were begging for some discipline. ;)
34 posted on 09/10/2003 6:46:41 AM PDT by secret garden (how do you fill your day?)
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To: dubyaismypresident
Timeless Advice....Great Job!
35 posted on 09/10/2003 6:51:12 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1
Hey you, get back in line. Obviously Madame Acorn isn't finished with you.
36 posted on 09/10/2003 6:52:22 AM PDT by secret garden (how do you fill your day?)
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To: hobbes1
Timeless Advice....Great Job!

That's what I thought, but it seems to evoke a very feminist reaction from the Title IX students....

37 posted on 09/10/2003 6:52:57 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
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To: CSM; xsmommy
Hubby kept saying they were aliens - from out of space.......
38 posted on 09/10/2003 6:53:39 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: CholeraJoe
She Has in fact admited on more than one occasion...
39 posted on 09/10/2003 6:53:59 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1
Never call Broads Chicks!

Why not?

40 posted on 09/10/2003 6:54:20 AM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Clinton Legacy = 16-acre hole in the ground in lower Manhattan)
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