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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

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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
here's grandpap and his bethrothed


21 posted on 05/17/2012 5:54:52 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

yes, it is kind of a mindboggler.


22 posted on 05/17/2012 5:56:28 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden
Rome is the omphalus of Western Civilization; Mecca is its derriere.



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

23 posted on 05/17/2012 5:56:40 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: xsmommy

I guess both Freeman and Jackson have a little omph left in their phalos.


24 posted on 05/17/2012 6:00:00 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

ok, that was clever, i will give you that ; )


25 posted on 05/17/2012 6:04:57 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Often those women who marry a man twice their age look plastic and just looking for a payout...but this? Good Lord, she looks like a sweet kid standing with her grandpa! What could she possibly see in that?


26 posted on 05/17/2012 6:08:08 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (ABO)
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To: SoothingDave
RIP, Chuck Brown. he was a DC icon, Go-Go music is indigenous the the DC area. This guy was huge when i first moved here in 1978. This is a great song, btw : ) and blacks my age equally lament today's rap/hiphop mess. i was talking to one of the secretaries here this AM about how music was so much better back in the day.
27 posted on 05/17/2012 6:10:30 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

My son and I were just discussing music the other day - something came on the radio and I was telling him what we all used to do in a club (clapping over our heads at certain times) and he seemed surprised that it had been “club music” - I think he thought clubs were more specialized like they are now (country, or that techno crap, or just rap) - I told him we had all kinds of stuff, even the crappy songs to clear the dance floor so everyone would go buy a drink! ;^)


28 posted on 05/17/2012 6:13:51 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (ABO)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

she does!


29 posted on 05/17/2012 6:14:21 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

The club i mentioned yesterday to ConorMacnessa, Rumors, was one i used to go to when i was in law school. I am astounded it’s still there and functioning as a club. Xsteen said she wants to go. That was the very start of New Wave music, i remember being there, vividly. That’s what Norma and i were talking about this AM. i said where do people our age go to dance? She said they have things called Cabarets where a bunch of them rent out a church hall and have music and dance, about 4 x per year. She was going to look into it for me, i said my hub and i would probably be the only white people there but she said, no you wouldn’t, you would be surprised. She lives down in Warrenton, VA which is about an hour south of here. We couldn’t go to a young person’s club without looking like a cougar and besides, we want the old timey music. Looking at the songs along the side of that Chuck Brown Bustin Loose page, i see lots from my ipod and def stuff from back in my day! No one’s kids are getting married yet in my social set, so there aren’t even weddings to dance at. And xshub’s annual meeting had a MAGICIAN [rme] instead of a musical act this year. i have to wait for his southeast conference down at Amelia Island at the end of July and hope they got a shag band in for that! i will have to ask him.


30 posted on 05/17/2012 6:22:02 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

i am LMAO at one of the commenter names on the youtube page— caucasian pinata ! great name for a band!!


31 posted on 05/17/2012 6:24:46 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

I’m sure Freeman gets invited to all the best parties.


32 posted on 05/17/2012 6:29:42 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

I’ve never been to a “club” in my life. Give me a bar with a jukebox and a pool table.


33 posted on 05/17/2012 6:31:15 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Seriously? Well you are in a small town aren’t you? XS and I are from the era of girls wearing dresses to clubs! Late 70’s/early 80’s - all sorts of music.


34 posted on 05/17/2012 6:36:36 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (ABO)
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To: xsmommy
Tamara and Jesse Jackson? oh, my.... ...perhaps Sean will start asking about her boyfriend like he does Ann Coulter's.
35 posted on 05/17/2012 6:48:52 AM PDT by tioga
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To: SoothingDave

i don’t know what you consider a CLUB, but i am talking about Zelda’s Greenhouse, Peter’s Pub and i forget the one that was configured like a CHURCH in Oakland across the street from Zelda’s. Places to dance that sell alcohol. Maybe clubs are different today, i have no idea, not been inside one for 25+ yrs.


36 posted on 05/17/2012 6:52:02 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

He went to college right up the street from where i did, in Pittsburgh, so he’s not been up in Jeanette, PA his entire life.


37 posted on 05/17/2012 6:56:20 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave; Explorer89

don’t worry, i have put in a text to Paula to ask about the place we used to go for happy hour that had sort of a medieval church theme. she must have someone up in the stirrups right now though, so i will let you know. i am wondering how we were able to drink. i never had a fake ID in my life, maybe i was 21 by senior year? i am asking Paula that too. was the drinking age always 21 in PA? I remember people used to road trip down to WV bc it was 18 there. you and explorer are both 10-15 years younger so it was prob diff by then anyway.


38 posted on 05/17/2012 7:02:47 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: NicknamedBob
As former Judge Weekbacker said just before being sentenced:

“Now, now. No need to be precipitate here” but he still got two years for salting his sale hogs.

Anyhow omphalos could be “Um, fellows?”, could be according the guys at the garage.

But since I'm the one paying for the breakfast bourbon we're going with, omphalos \OM-fuh-luhs , noun, like a navel.

Just don't tell the belly dancers performing at the Little Egypt Theater that you were just looking at their omphalos ‘cause they'll beat you like a rented mule.

39 posted on 05/17/2012 7:03:56 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: xsmommy

Of course I have no idea what the drinking age was in PA, but in Texas it was 18 so my senior year in high school we started going to clubs on the weekends!


40 posted on 05/17/2012 7:11:35 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (ABO)
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