[beyond the sea]

Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, John Podesta

............................... not too bad for a Sunday morning. Only one average sized bucket should do it this week.

;-)

By the way, since you're such an even tempered and well-intentioned FReeper, StoneWall Brigade, may I drop a pet peeve on you here? You wrote, "please keep the Newt bashing down just a little bit." I've been thinking about the following for a very long time.

Do you realize how relatively meaningless and less-than-informative the words "bash" and "trash" are when used as a verb. Do you realize that it wasn't too very long ago that those two words were nearly always used only as nouns?

When I see people here accusing others of "Bush bashing", Rush bashing", Hannity bashing", "conservative trashing", etc., I just marvel at how the phrase says about absolutely nothing. Why can't people be specific when they want to try to claim that others are saying something negative about another?

"Bash" and "trash" as verbs seems just plain silly. (jmo)

I can honestly say that I have never in my life used either of them as a verb. Rah, rah.

;-)

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But when the Republicans retake Congress and also win the Presidency in 2008, we will have ourselves one heck of a bash.

;-)

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

[txradioguy]

"Why can't people be specific when they want to try to claim that others are saying something negative about another?"


Well we could always find a completely listing of your inane ramblings about Rush.

[Phsstpok]

Do you realize how relatively meaningless and less-than-informative the words "bash" and "trash" are when used as a verb. Do you realize that it wasn't too very long ago that those two words were nearly always used only as nouns?

Actually, I've always heard the first meaning of the word base as a physical blow, a hard hit, and only in the late 60s do I recall it being commonly used to describe something like a party.  The Princeton Wordnet web site defines "bash" as follow:

Noun

• S: (n) knock, bash, bang, smash, belt (a vigorous blow) "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"
• S: (n) bash, do, brawl (an uproarious party)

Verb

S: (v) sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash (hit hard)

I guess it's all how we first heard and learned words used.  I have the problem that many words I learned and used growing up were things my mom picked up while growing up on reservations across the country.  I'd use a word with my school friends like "beguech" (phonetic spelling, I have no idea how it's really spelled) which is, I think, a Navajo word for thank you.  They'd give me a strange look.  I'd go home that afternoon and ask my mom "is that another one of those words?"  I'm glad for that experience now, though, because it makes me stop and sit back when I don't understand how someone is using a word I think I know.