Word For The Day, Monday, September 22, 2003

The Verbivores | 9/22/03 | 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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pernicious \pur-NISH-us\, adjective:
perniciousness; noun
perniciously; adverb

1. Highly injurious; deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful.
2. Archaic. Evil; wicked. .
3. Quick; swift (to burn).

Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. --Shak.

Etymology: [Middle English, from Old French pernicios, from Latin pernici sus, from pernici s, destruction : per-, per- + nex, nec-, violent death; see nek-1 in Indo-European Roots.]

[Texan5]

Thanks for the update-glad all is back to normal. I wanna hear about the bracelet.....

[CholeraJoe]

Now just have a sanitation truck back up to the refridgerator and you'll be done.

[Texan5]

Oh! new camera, too cool. I want a new camcorder..mine is broken. Maybe I'll take an idea from xsmommy and start working on some hubby guilt to see if he'll buy me one.

[NeoCaveman]

Great tagline CJ.

[CholeraJoe]

Thanks, bud.

[xsmommy]

have laundry going, and cleaned the fridge and freezer out, threw out the food and washed it out with hot soapy water. Boy THAT was long overdue. will have to go to the grocery store to replace the food this afternoon.

xs2pup was as good as gold on our REFUGEE trip to Ohio. not a single accident at xsbro's house. i was so proud of him. he was a big hit there, as they had not yet met him.

xshub asked one of the las vegas bigwigs there at his conference where he should go, bc he needed something to assuage the effects of Hurricane Isabel at home... they set him up. it is a very beautiful diamond and ruby (my birthstone) bracelet. i was totally shocked.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Gives LoneP a sympathetic pat on the back....

(Your comment flew right over her head.)



But ya gotta understand. Miss Rika ain't much into dragons ...

(Check with Sea if you want much such pun in the sun topless tropical topics....)

[xsmommy]

i did that last night and this AM. have to wait til Thurs, trash day, for the toxic waste to be hauled off. boy was that refrigerator DISGUSTING. i really should clean it out more often! hobbes would be so impressed, i was on my hands and knees scrubbing in there. see, i can clean when i have to!

[white rose]

More evidence that California is getting weirder by the second: Here is an item dealing with a truly pernicious development at the Sacramento Bee. Who needs that silly little thing called the First Amendment, anyway?

[xsmommy]

yunz are fickle. yunz turned from rev al to wes in a heartbeat. sad.

[honeygrl]

I cleaned out our fridge once... it was so long ago that memories of it are finally fading..

[SLM]

Gossip has pernicious repercussions, as much for the gossiper as for the gossipee.

[NeoCaveman]

yunz are fickle. yunz turned from rev al to wes in a heartbeat. sad.

We hate Wes. Al is da man.

[Texan5]

The bracelet sounds neat. So the pup was an angel on the trip? No doubt intent on making a good impression on your relatives. I wish you hadn't reminded me about the grocery-I had hoped to forget the necessity of going there today, and finish this bid early instead. Oh, well, I'll go do it in a few minutes, and hopefully get back early.

[Texan5]

I am obsessive about cleaning up every little spill and shed vegetable leaf so that I don't have to clean out the whole fridge often. But stuff in tupperware containers sometimes gets shoved to the back and not noticed until it bangs on the inside of the door to get out. Not a pretty sight..

[Gabz]

LOL!!!!

I'd like a camcorder too ----- maybe for Christmas!!!!

Check out Tiger Direct (tigerdirect.com) their prices on electronics are fabulous.

The camera has a zoom, auto flash, time delay, slot for memory caed, takes video clips and can be used as a webcam. It was either $70 or $80, including shipping!!!!

[Texan5]

That is a deal! I'm going to that site when I've got some cash, thanks for the info.

[honeygrl]

The easy solution to that is: don't buy vegetables. Works well for us.

[Robert A Cook PE]

(Points out Xsex was proud of being on her hands and knees for Tiger Direct this morning ...)

(Quackly ducks behind refrigerator before xsmommy starts throwing thongs at him ...)

[SeaDragon]

(Check with Sea if you want much such pun in the sun topless tropical topics....)

Are we frolicking topless in the tropics??