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

Posted on 01/21/2002 6:01:33 AM PST by 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....


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



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To: Gabz
Bye, Gabz. See you around the hallways later!
281 posted on 01/21/2002 11:51:51 AM PST by Slip18
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To: Constitution Day
One glass is about all it takes.

Well this stuff must not've been up to muster, 'cause one generous mugful never even teched me. Actually 'twas the spicy tuna with extra wasabi that brought tears to my eyes... [sniff] It was all good however... I'm not much one for sweet fru-fru drinks though. I'll take my tequila straight up.

282 posted on 01/21/2002 11:52:23 AM PST by maxwell
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To: CholeraJoe
Baaaaaaaad boy, CJ!
283 posted on 01/21/2002 11:52:24 AM PST by Slip18
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To: maxwell
The place down the mall from where I work and some wasabi that will clean your sinuses and then some. They also had some of the best Tuna I had had in a while. YUMMY!
284 posted on 01/21/2002 12:19:31 PM PST by RikaStrom
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To: RikaStrom
Ummmm...teach...when you fly into DC for CPAC, please make sure that this doesn't happen to you.....
285 posted on 01/21/2002 12:46:07 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
OMG! ROFLOL... that is sooooo gross!
286 posted on 01/21/2002 12:55:29 PM PST by RikaStrom
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To: RikaStrom; Slip18; Gabz; xsmommy; SeaDragon
Yep, I'm feelin' pretty cathartized right about now... Here's one for the gals--

Mildred was a 93 year-old woman who was particularly despondent over the recent death of her husband Earl. She decided that she would just kill herself and join him in death. Thinking that it would be best to get it over with quickly, she took out Earl's old Army pistol and made the decision to shoot herself in the heart since it was so badly broken in the first place. Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable and burden to someone, she called her doctor's office to inquire as to just exactly where the heart would be. "On a woman," the doctor said, "Your heart would be just below your left breast."

Later that night, Mildred was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound to her left knee.

287 posted on 01/21/2002 12:56:46 PM PST by maxwell
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To: xsmommy; RikaStrom
Er, Miss Pet, why did you select the Teach for this kindly advice? And nobody else?
288 posted on 01/21/2002 12:57:02 PM PST by Argh
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To: xsmommy
Hey, that's this weekend, ain't it...
289 posted on 01/21/2002 12:57:28 PM PST by maxwell
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To: maxwell
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

The sheep jokes, as bad as they are were way better than this one!!!

290 posted on 01/21/2002 12:58:14 PM PST by Gabz
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To: Gabz; Slip18; xsmommy; RikaStrom; SeaDragon
Oh awright...

HOW TO IMPRESS A WOMAN:

Compliment her,
cuddle her,
kiss her,
caress her,
love her,
stroke her,
tease her,
comfort her,
protect her,
hug her,
hold her,
spend money on her,
wine & dine her,
buy things for her,
listen to her,
care for her,
stand by her,
support her,
go to the ends of the earth for her.

HOW TO IMPRESS A MAN:

Show up naked,
Bring beer.

291 posted on 01/21/2002 1:00:46 PM PST by maxwell
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To: Argh;rikastrom
because i know of no other woman flying to DC for CPAC, argh. what are you trying to insinuate....not pushing that sapphic crap are ya?
292 posted on 01/21/2002 1:00:59 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: maxwell
next weekend.
293 posted on 01/21/2002 1:01:35 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: Argh; xsmommy
Men have more hangy-downy parts to be sucked into oblivion.
294 posted on 01/21/2002 1:02:43 PM PST by CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe
yikes, CJ! hangy-downy parts!!!LOL!
295 posted on 01/21/2002 1:03:32 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; dubyaismypresident; hobbes1; one_particular_harbour; Argh
what are you trying to insinuate....not pushing that sapphic crap are ya?

Why, xs, it never occurred to me.

Sappho Alert!


296 posted on 01/21/2002 1:04:36 PM PST by CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe
how unjust is it, that i have spent all of MLK day cooped up in my study at home, cranking out a dang brief that i should have had done last week?
297 posted on 01/21/2002 1:05:15 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: CholeraJoe
Men have more hangy-downy parts to be sucked into oblivion.

What a painful thought.

298 posted on 01/21/2002 1:05:15 PM PST by NeoCaveman
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To: xsmommy; RikaStrom
No, no, I thought your directing the advice to the teach implied that you thought she has the body type to which such a disaster could happen...whatever body type that may happen to be...and that around here, only she is unfortunate enough to need this advice.... :^)
299 posted on 01/21/2002 1:05:23 PM PST by Argh
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To: xsmommy; Rikastrom; CholeraJoe
how unjust is it, that i have spent all of MLK day cooped up in my study at home,

While the rest of us WORK

300 posted on 01/21/2002 1:06:06 PM PST by NeoCaveman
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