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Word for the Day, Monday, July 11, 2005
verbivores | 7/11/05 | xs

Posted on 07/11/2005 4:25:59 AM PDT by xsmommy

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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".

ex·co·ri·ate; tr verb

1. To tear or wear off the skin of; abrade. See Synonyms at chafe. 2. To censure strongly; denounce: an editorial that excoriated the administration for its inaction.

v 1: express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated" [syn: condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate] 2: tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading; "This leash chafes the dog's neck" [syn: chafe]

[Middle English excoriaten, from Latin excorire, excorit- : ex-, ex- + corium, skin; see sker-1 in Indo-European Roots.]

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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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To: Explorer89

Man. Nothing nicer than that area in spring/summer.

Started getting all nostalgic just visiting the Idlewild website.

It was PGH winters that used to kill me. Unnngh.


61 posted on 07/11/2005 5:22:53 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro; xsmommy

It's a shame about so many of the old time amusement parks either falling into disrepair or being gobbled up by the conglomerates.

I did come up with a bright spot caused by the broken ankle and got a chuckle out of hubby - I know they won't be calling on me to be a chaperone for the kids' field trip to the amusement park in Ocean City, MD next week :)


62 posted on 07/11/2005 5:22:58 AM PDT by Gabz ((Chincoteague, VA) Surgeon General Warning: Sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: Young Werther

me too! see above, except i couldn't find a 7-11 pic from the US and i don't know what Japanese slurpees would taste like!


63 posted on 07/11/2005 5:23:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Kennywood: proudly providing fun for rabid children since 1898...

Wouldn't you feel more at home here anyway?

64 posted on 07/11/2005 5:23:28 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: secret garden

Good morning - I didn't see you sneaking into class :)


65 posted on 07/11/2005 5:24:52 AM PDT by Gabz ((Chincoteague, VA) Surgeon General Warning: Sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: martin_fierro; Explorer89

idlewild is a beautiful wooded setting for an amusement park. the rides are a bit too tame for my kids at their present ages, but a few years back we would meet the cousins there instead, bc Storybook Forest, MisterRogers Neighborhood and Idlewild are great for smaller kids. Now the majority of them like the big roller coasters. The Jackrabbit was till their fave of the coasters though and that was there for my school picnics as was the Racer, also still there.


66 posted on 07/11/2005 5:25:04 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
According to this site:

Kennywood installed its first dark ride, the float-through Old Mill way back in 1901, a year before the park even erected its first coaster (Fred Ingersoll's "Three-Way, Figure-Eight Toboggan," added in 1902). During its more than 90 years of operation, the Old Mill underwent a number of name and design changes, variously called the "Fairyland Floats" and "Hardheaded Harold's Horrendously Humorous Haunted Hideaway," but it currently operates with its original name and still offers a languorous, six-minute trip past several illuminated scenes and through a number of completely dark stretches (though it was never dubbed a "Tunnel of Love," it might as well have been, wink, wink...).

67 posted on 07/11/2005 5:26:49 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Gabz

Hi Gabz. Sorry to hear about your ankle. How is it feeling today?


68 posted on 07/11/2005 5:27:03 AM PDT by secret garden (There's no place like home!)
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To: xsmommy; Gabz

I'm going to hie myself off to work-I want to go by the office of a friend and former co-worker of mine who now has a private counseling practice and ask her some questions-I heard the same story of the loon's break with reality on Saturday night from both her son and Charles Manson eyes, almost word for word. I can't believe that two people would make up bizarre stuff like that, especially when one is a 17 year old horrified and disgusted by what his mother said and did. From that and our own dealings with her on Saturday night, hubby and I think she is a danger to herself and others and needs to be convinced to commit herself to a psychological/psychiatric facility if at all possible. I want to ask my friend what recourse there is if she refuses to go voluntarily, because this has gone beyond the merely annoying-she physically attacked both her son and her fiance with a piece of broken glass in front of me, hubby and another neighbor, then tried to attack her fiance's horse with the same shard of glass. She also stabbed herself in the wrist and arm with it when her son and fiance tried to restrain her. I think she has had a major psychotic episode and it is not getting better-there is likely to be someone seriously injured if some drastic action is not taken.


69 posted on 07/11/2005 5:29:06 AM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line..)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

I think we're going to ride out there sometime this summer. The Goth population is pretty low at her park, as opposed to what I've heard about King's Island.


70 posted on 07/11/2005 5:30:11 AM PDT by secret garden (There's no place like home!)
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To: secret garden

How was the trip, by the way?


71 posted on 07/11/2005 5:32:34 AM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line..)
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To: xsmommy

I don't know about fun... But nobody was seriously hurt (a couple of the instigators got small nicks on the foreheads when they face-planted into the bumper of a car), so all's well that ends well. The wait staff was appreciative of my efforts (one guy bartending and two waitresses - and nobody really keeping things under control). Thankfully, there were a couple of other right-minded middle aged men to help out, too!

Oh well... Now I know what Toby Keith's talking about in that song! LOL


72 posted on 07/11/2005 5:34:06 AM PDT by MortMan (Mostly Harmless)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa; secret garden

i have actually been there. you would be disappointed HD, there are no rides featuring boobs in any way shape or form.


73 posted on 07/11/2005 5:35:00 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden; Texan5

Thanks - as I mentioned to T5 on the other thread - it seems my ankle is about the only part of my foot/leg that does NOT hurt.........


74 posted on 07/11/2005 5:35:18 AM PDT by Gabz ((Chincoteague, VA) Surgeon General Warning: Sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: martin_fierro

THE OLD MILL!! of course! thanks!!!


75 posted on 07/11/2005 5:35:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Texan5

See my tag line. ;) No, it was okay. We did get to the Blue Bell Creamery for a tour and that is always a treat. And we saw a mini horse farm in Brenham and the bats in Austin. We even went to a pearl farm here in TN on the way home. It turns out their biggest business is providing seeds for pearls in Japan, using parts of mussel shells.


76 posted on 07/11/2005 5:36:21 AM PDT by secret garden (There's no place like home!)
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To: Texan5

Good grief. If she won't voluntarily commit herself I suggest a call to the police and let a judge commit her for observation.


77 posted on 07/11/2005 5:36:59 AM PDT by Gabz ((Chincoteague, VA) Surgeon General Warning: Sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: Gabz

"chaperone for the kids' field trip"

See there-something good can come out of anything...


78 posted on 07/11/2005 5:37:22 AM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line..)
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To: Texan5

so sounds like charley manson eyes isn't the problem in that relationship. she is a nut and needs to be in a nuthouse.


79 posted on 07/11/2005 5:37:51 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: MortMan

i just heard that song yesterday and thought of it when you said that! i was stuck in the car with xshub at the radio controls and he listens to country. i do love me some toby though, he's hot.


80 posted on 07/11/2005 5:38:55 AM PDT by xsmommy
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