Word For The Day, Monday, 1/21/02, Third Annual Day of Repudiation

The Verbivores | 1/21/02 | 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. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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repudiate \re*pyoo"dee*ate\ transitive verb
repudiated, repudiating, repudiates
repudiative; adjective
repudiation; noun
repudiator; noun

1. To reject the validity or authority of: “Chaucer... not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it” (Joyce Carol Oates).
2. To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: repudiated the accusation.
3. To refuse to recognize or pay: repudiate a debt.
4a. To disown (a child, for example).
4b. To refuse to have any dealings with.
5. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. --Prynne.
6. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward. --Bolingbroke.
7. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.

Etymology: Latin repudiatus, past participle of repudiare, from repudium rejection of a prospective spouse, divorce, probably from re- + pudEre to shame. Date: 1545

[CholeraJoe]

Well, at least you got a good one, Doc.

LMAO. For a minute I thought you were referring to my slection of sheep.

[Gabz]

They probably have nothing better to do than to follow us to different threads. Gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Wait til they start following you around different boards and forums all over the net. Talk about the heebie jeebies.

[Cyber Liberty]

Already been there and done that.

[Gabz]

Already been there and done that.

But I've got the T-shirt!!!

[Argh]

Doc, I seem to remember reading a long time ago a theory that syphilis got into the human population via contact with sheep. Is that still a current theory, or does anyone care anymore, or has my memory gone right around the bend?

[Robert A Cook PE]

"For a minute I thought you were referring to my slection of sheep."

Are ewe pulling the wool over their eyes?

Well at least we know ewe have a good sock of them, or does that yarn belong in a different thread?

Then again, I thought a slection of ewe was a slice of mutton.

[NeoCaveman]

I got a point today... a thread about a bull semen thief he was caught because of a tip. The thread was pulled and you hadn't got there yet.

[Robert A Cook PE]

What are ewe doing with a T-shirt?

Thought ewe went undieless?

[Cyber Liberty]

You may have the t-shirt, but I'm stuck with the legal bills...har!

[CholeraJoe]

The biggest and probably only controversy about syphilis is whether Columbus's sailors brought it back to Europe or introduced it to the New World. Skeletal lesions compatible with syphilis have been found in New World studies dating back over 1000 years but few if any can be found prior to 1500 in Europe. Don't think sheep were involved in this one.

[CholeraJoe]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If I'd have known that I could sell it, I wouldn't have given so much away.

[NeoCaveman]

If I'd have known that I could sell it, I wouldn't have given so much away.

I'm thinking, I could be rich, by now.

[Argh]

Thank you, Doc, and I remember hearing it both ways about Columbus, now that you mention it, that he introduced it to America and that he introduced it to Europe from America. I didn't know it was a controversy, I just thought it was my memory acting up again.

[Slip18]

Dang! You're one ahead. And what I fool I am, I saw your ping. Had to start getting ready for the movie. I can't wait to see it. Have about ten minutes here, then we have to get our rear ends in the car.

Let me just guess how that thread got pulled. By the b@!!s?

[maxwell]

Sheep questions are better left to these guys.

Yep, you got yer rough and woolly sheep, and yer soft plump sheep, and yer slender young thangs... I'm kinda partial to the large wild-eyed hornie ones myself...

(Did I just say that out loud?)

[Gabz]

Am I missing something here? Somebody getting cyberstalked?

Somebody has a problem about Slip posting to CL - which is ridiculous in my not so humble opinion!!!!

Happens to me all of the time, and it's because of my rather vocal opposition to the anti-smoker cartel.

On that I gotta go folks - my SIL is here to see if we can fix my monitor problem!!!

Hopefully I will be back shortly!

[Slip18]

You just said that out loud so everyone could hear it! LOL!

[CholeraJoe]

I'm kinda partial to the large wild-eyed hornie ones myself...

Knock yourself out: