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Word For The Day, Thursday, May 17, 2012 - omphalus
dictionaries ad nauseam | 17 May 2012 | Thursday's sub

Posted on 05/17/2012 4:33:33 AM PDT by secret garden


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".

omphalos \OM-fuh-luhs , noun
1. The central point.
2. The navel; umbilicus.
3. Greek Antiquity. A stone in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, thought to mark the center of the earth.

Example sentences:
To that incurable romantic the Trenton hovel was omphalos, the hub of existence, the center of mass.
-- Ellen Queen, Halfway House

Yes; but if not of the earth, for earth's tenant Jerusalem was the omphalos of mortality.
-- Thomas De Quincey, Suspiria de Profundies

Etymology:
From Greek, omphalos did not enter English until the 1850s when Thomas De Quincey used it in his work Suspiria de Profundis. It literally meant "navel."

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....


Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!


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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

I used to go to some local places to see rock bands, mostly cover acts. But never to anything where people dance. I’m not even sure where I would go around here if I wanted such a thing.


41 posted on 05/17/2012 7:14:22 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: NicknamedBob
A for you. You know it will be colorful.
42 posted on 05/17/2012 7:16:30 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: xsmommy

When does xsboy come home? Do you have to go up to get him? Beware of Kamikaze Curve. Construction has made it even more dangerous.


43 posted on 05/17/2012 7:16:56 AM PDT by tioga
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To: secret garden
omphalos

Pooh Alms.

44 posted on 05/17/2012 7:17:23 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
From your keyboard to you-know-who's ears. A+ for you!
45 posted on 05/17/2012 7:17:42 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: ConorMacNessa

A+ for you because it’s true.


46 posted on 05/17/2012 7:20:13 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: xsmommy

The Panther Hollow Inn was the closest to campus and that was where CMU people hung out on Thursday nights to start the weekend. They made tasty Purple Hooters.

I lived in Shadyside the last 2 years. We would go to Joe’s, a dive bar in North Oakland to play pool and drink $1 Rolling Rocks.


47 posted on 05/17/2012 7:21:03 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

I’m tossing you an A for wordplay.


48 posted on 05/17/2012 7:21:26 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

just checked it was always 21 in PA. and the name of the place was THE SANCTUARY, paula was able to pull that up from the depths of her memory banks from 1978, we were both astounded that she remembered.


49 posted on 05/17/2012 7:23:48 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

The drinking age in PA has been 21 since Prohibition ended. But even I, a young pup, turned 21 right before my Fall semester of senior year ended.

Ohio went from 19 to 21 right in the summer before I turned 19. My buddy was grandfathered in, so we used to road trip all the way there to buy beer.


50 posted on 05/17/2012 7:25:02 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: tioga

He’s been home since last Saturday. Xshub had been up the week before to get a load of his stuff, no tickets were had by either of them. thanks be to God.


51 posted on 05/17/2012 7:26:32 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: count-your-change

A for you!


52 posted on 05/17/2012 7:27:35 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: martin_fierro

Tigger was my favorite. A+ for you!


53 posted on 05/17/2012 7:29:39 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave

Freshman year my room mate and i, both premed majors, volunteered at St Es hosp. We would always pass this bar on the bus back and once we decided we would go in an order drinks. Tom Collins [not a dead giveaway that we were underage drinkers] and we were served. it was tasty. we thought we were grown.
Paula said they were more lenient with hot women like us. LMAO! i know i didn’t have a fake ID, she thinks she might have, but i swear i don’t recall them being a thing at all back then.


54 posted on 05/17/2012 7:30:33 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Little did you know that pretty much any girl can get into any party at any frat at CMU on any weekend and drink for free.

Met a nice Carlow girl one night, homecoming queen from Freeport. Never saw her again.


55 posted on 05/17/2012 7:33:13 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

I was always the youngest when we went out since I started school at 4. Drinking ages were 18 back in the day. I never had a fake ID but always had friends who could walk into a liquor store and get whatever you wanted. That was when cherry brandy was considered a classy choice. ROR!


56 posted on 05/17/2012 7:34:11 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

never in PA, forch or unforch!


57 posted on 05/17/2012 7:40:48 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

dang, remember grain alcohol mixed with hawaiian punch? eeks.


58 posted on 05/17/2012 7:42:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

You must be in heaven, all your chicks home.

We were nearly killed there a week or so ago. Some idiot was in the wrong lane and just swung over into ours. Had to slam on the brakes with cars coming up behind us. Geez. Scared me to death. I screamed in terror. Was shaking for miles down the road. Thank God we weren’t hit.


59 posted on 05/17/2012 7:43:58 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/320163/28/Michelle-Higgins-hits-moose-looses-memory-still-arrives-at-work-on-time

Could be worse. You could have hit a moose and shown up for work 25 miles later with no memory of it.


60 posted on 05/17/2012 7:46:39 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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