Word For The Day, Monday, September 15, 2003

The Verbivores | 9/15/03 | Teacher

[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....

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adumbrate \AD-uhm-brayt\, verb:
adumbrating, adumbrates, adumbrated; transitive verb
adumbration noun
adumbratively; adverb
adumbrative; adjective

1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline.
2. To foreshadow; to intimate.
3. To overshadow; to shade.
4. To disclose partially or guardedly.

Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated.
--L. Taylor.

Etymology: [Latin adumbr re, adumbr t-, to represent in outline : ad-, ad- + umbra, shadow.]

[xsmommy]

Here's a bad idea for seeking retribution against an ex-girlfriend....

[CSM]

Not at all. I especially liked your hobbies! Now if you had asked if it made the WEEK seem Long, then I might have agreed. Is it Friday yet?

[Texan5]

Thank you (takes bow). I was inspired to write it after seeing film of x42 with grayout at a church ranting about right wing conspiracies on Fox News this morning-nearly made me barf.

[Gabz]

When hubby was on the phone with his manager this morning - he made a similar suggestion. The boss is considering it.

The boss considering it may be a moot point. If a state of emergency is declared there will be going no where anyway.

[Slip18]

Really bad idea that was. The guy is a no-brainer.

[xsmommy]

Sounds like Peggy Noonan, also went to a church meeting recently.

[Texan5]

You're right about that-no one is going anywhere at all if that happens. During last year's ice storm, an employer in the city insisted that all employees report for work, even though most businesses were closed until at least noon, and the schools were closed, too. Two of the employees slid on the ice, wrecked their cars on the way to work, and filed suit against the employer. I guess they must have settled out of court, though because I haven't heard any more about it.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I couldn't find and Apple. So.....

Rika Strom

She is our humble teacher,
Here on Word for the Day.
She likes to give me bad grades,
I seldom get an A.
But still she lets me come here,
Pretending I’m a student.
She’s mindful of my self-esteem,
On that I’d say she’s prudent.
She opens class then goes to work,
Then grades homework at lunch.
While she is out not watching us,
We are a rowdy bunch.
We like her though she can be mean,
She knows the day will come.
That all of us will tell her how,
We all love Rika Strom.

[xsmommy]

We are a rowdy bunch. We like her though she can be mean,

LOL!!!

[VRWCmember]

hillary is adumbbroad. (Wait, the word is adumbrate... dang, I'll have to look around for some good material and come back later)

[secret garden]

Are you sure you're not dizzy from wearing tin foil?

[Gabz]

During the blizzard in February idiocy like that employer was averted by the declaration of a state of emergency. No one was allowed on the roads except essential personel or in emergencies. The fines were very stiff.

That stemmed from the ice storms of 1993 when numerous idiotic employers demanded employees come to work and many people were injured.

You all know me well enough that I hate over restrictive government restrictions - but in cases of emergency such as sever weather it is the government's job to protect saftey and well being.

[CholeraJoe]

I get dizzy if I don't wear it. The alien mind control rays and the radio waves from the CIA do that.

[xsmommy]

they do concentrate those rays on MT, that is a proven fact.....

[Conspiracy Guy]

I was feeling poemetric this morning.

[RJayneJ]

[hobbes1]

How come you pinged everyone but me ?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The Ted Kennedy Saga

Was there anything in Ted Kennedy’s early life to adumbrate what he was to become? Shakespeare himself would become a mute bard if he were able to hear such a drumbeat, one that would grow into a rumba. Ted was, as a boy, at a dumber level in school than his brothers, from the bare datum we could uncover. Like his brother, John, he preferred chasing girls to studying. A bared tummy or a muted bra beneath a sweater would send him into fits of distraction. Early evidence was that he would certainly be a turd. Am I not correct that this is what occurred?

In college, he had so many girlfriends, he would have made a Burt Reynolds or a Bill Clinton jealous. Indeed, Ted dated many a dame Burt would not have been able to attract, thanks to the Kennedy family name. Life seemed like a dream, but there would be nightmares ahead, at Bermuda Triangle levels.

After college, Ted was what girls described as a bum dater. A heavy drinker even then, he was generally useless in bed until the effects of the Scotch or rum abated. Often, in bed, trauma awaited the girl who dared to mock him. He would begin sweetly enough.
“Come on, give little Ted a rub. Am I not the greatest thing since fixed elections?”
But, with the alcohol causing a permanently soft tube, drama would soon occur. While most men won’t talk about problems with their “special skin” (some derma tabu, no doubt), Teddy would rant and rave like a mad brute. His face would change from pasty white to bright red, and end up a tad umber. Trying to calm him was like trying to rub a tamed lion, or debut a ram at a cotillion ball. His latest rumba date never knew when Ted would turn on her.

Sometimes, to try and chill out, he would take his date for a drive. He would speed at a rate dumb people wouldn’t even attempt. A slight error in navigation, or a bum tread or mechanical problem could prove fatal. And did. He never did mature. Bad social skills, bad driving, bad story. If Ted sees a bar, Ted must stop there. A young girl who thinks he’s a dream date, finds out he’s really a dream tub. And pays for the mistake with her life.

And now, this elderly democrat scion (to me, dub “A Rat” for All Time), has managed to hypnotize his followers into forgetting the past. This “Great American” to me is nothing but a red. Am I crazy? He has muted Arab leanings to appeal to Jewish voters, but his supporters, to me, are dumb. Am I wrong? I believe it takes more than giving Ted a Burma Shave and sobering him up to make him presentable.

[secret garden]

I'm glad an eloquent speaker was heard in that room. She raised many interesting points.

[secret garden]

She might've thought you were still in mourning after yesterday's game?