Posted on 05/28/2008 5:59:38 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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".
heliolatry • \hee-lee-AH-luh-tree\ • noun
sun worship
Example sentence:
The Egyptians, who personified the sun as the god Ra, were one of numerous ancient cultures that practiced heliolatry.
Did you know?
The first half of "heliolatry" derives from "hēlios," the Greek word for "sun." In Greek mythology, Hēlios was the god of the sun, imagined as "driving" the sun as a chariot across the sky. From "hēlios" we also get the word "helium," referring to the very light gas that is found in balloons and airships, and "heliocentric," meaning "having or relating to the sun as center," as in "a heliocentric orbit." The suffix "-latry," meaning "worship," derives via Late Latin and French from the Greek "latreia," and can be found in such words as "bardolatry" ("worship of Shakespeare") and "zoolatry" ("animal worship"). A person who worships the sun is called a heliolater.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for 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....
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
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Here is my example with today's WFTD.
Algore and his climate change crowd have less scientific credibility than those who practice heliolatry, yet they arrogantly insist that the science is already settled.
Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Get to class you slackers!
Get to class you slackers!
Get to class you slackers!
Obama’s followers are participating in a more accurate canus heliolatry... they’re all worshipping that sun of a b****.
and yeah i DID misspell it.
Amanda Bynes decides to take her brother's place at his school, I think to play soccer with the exclusive "boys" team.
Harmless, if formulaic. It's no "Harold and Kumar go to Whte Castle"
yeah, that one sounds like a real barn-burner... ; )
Yeah, she evens starts to develop feelings for one of the other boys. And he feels it too, even though she’s a boy and that would make him gay.
Bill Clinton, democrat sun god, was the center of their cult of heliolatry. Based upon his treatment of women, “heeliolatry” would have been more appropriate.
You’re on a roll with all the nudists and cross-dresser threads this morning.
Then based on the movie Shakespeare in Love, in which he fell in love with the girl who (pretending to be a boy so she could act in the Elizabethan theater) played Juliet, Shakespeare was a lesbian. There’s all sorts of gender confusion going on here.
Today, the part of the class perv will be played by xsmommy.
you wish! ; )
Now that the frozen north has shed winter, we will all embrace our heliotry till fall.
Sunshine came softly through my a-window today....
there ya go — an earworm for the day! LATA!!!
Shucks, ti, we had 3 1/2” of rain in 90 minutes yesterday. Flooded streets and parking lots and ball fields. We have had 200% of our normal rainfall to date.
Sun is shinin’ in the sky,
There ain’t a cloud in sight
It’s stopped rainin’
Everybody’s in a play
And don’t you know
It’s a beautiful new day.
Runnin’ down the avenue,(Pant, Pant, Pant)
See how the sun shines brightly
In the city on the streets
Where once was pity,
Mr. Blue Sky is living here today.
(Chorus:)
Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why,
You had to hide away
For so long where did we go wrong.
Hey there Mr. Blue
We’re so pleased to be with you
Look around see what you do,
Everybody smiles at you.
Hey you with the pretty face,
Welcome to the human race
A celebration Mr. Blue Sky’s
Up there waitin’ and today
Is the day we’ve waited for
(Chorus)
Mr. Blue you did it right,
But soon comes Mr. Night,
Creepin’ over, now his
Hand is on your shoulder,
Never mind I’ll remember you this way.
(Chorus)
hey, I saw SUNNY Evansville on HGTV yesterday! Looked great to me.... LOL I think it was a house on Lombard Ave for over 500K.......does that sound like your house?
Lombard Ave is on the near east side, close to St. Mary’s Hospital. Ritzy neighborhood, where all the Radiologists and Neurosurgeons live. Chez Cholerique is on the northern fringe, out by the Interplanetary Spaceport and the plastics factories.
We are overcast and drizzly here so heliolatry is not possible. I was trying to get the kiddo his driver permit but the school said we cannot pick up his attendance record until tomorrow morning. I think it would take her all of 5 minutes to do it but she said she was in another database and had too much other work to do today. I am mildly huffy about her attitude. Granted, I didn’t know I needed this until I called the license office this morning. Still...
I was watching Fox awhile ago when they covered a story of the naked cat lady.........LOL...seems she’s out driving around looking for her cat......got out of the car and proceeded on foot scaring little girls.........PERV alert!
Calling all classroom ladies to acount for their wherabouts......ROTFLMAO
How do you post something like that with no photographic evidence!!
i don’t like cats, would def not go looking for one and am at work : )
the 4th Circuit is requiring that all documents be filed electronically as of June 1st. i am stressed beyond belief with trying to make sure i know how to do this, with their online user manual and training/registration. it is beyond cruel to drag me into the 21st century when i am perfectly happy being a luddite!
I am home and getting ready to go for a run, if the rain stays light. I will be wearing clothes.
Can’t practice much heliolatry this summer; no $$ for vacation.
(Just as well; I sunburn easily.)
So you don't deny being naked? Interesting. ;-)
OTOH, now you can claim all your FReeping time as training to develop your html and online uploading and search skills.
Don’t you have paralegals or assistant to do that kind of stuff? I thought all y’all wrote notes on those long yellow notepads.
the court requires attorneys to file this stuff online, which is why we have to learn how to do it. we have paralegals and secretaries and they always filed the paper stuff, but we have to do this and it is driving me nuts. we have to get 90% right on the online quiz. i got 70% the first time and 80% the second time, i have no idea which one i am getting wrong! we haven’t used a yellow legal pad to write a brief in this millenium. secretaries used to type the briefs from the yellow pads on a typewriter, can you imagine?
dang, i wondered why it was chilly in here!
So are the paralegals going to be out of a job now?
oh thank the Lord, i got 100% on the third try. i dread the first time i have to actually file something this way. i know one of my colleagues spent an entire day trying to file a motion in the 10th circuit, a week or two ago.
you know, you’d think they would take that into consideration. out-sourcing is a definite issue here, and i try to use the paralegals as often as i can, so they can justify their jobs.
i had to file something in the Third Circuit a few weeks back and was whirling like a dang dervish trying to ascertain whether they still took paper filings, which they did and i was extremely grateful. the world needs more luddites. half the quiz dealt with what you do about personal identifying information like account #s and SS#s, and what to do if you file something incorrectly or by mistake.
I haven’t seen secret all week, and she does have cats.
See -- all that FReeping did pay off. Raise a glass to Jim Rob and take the rest of the day off.
i wish.
i guess each circuit has its own software and requirements, or did they plan together? (Or is there only one supplier of this speciality software?)
Heliolatry is practiced by tourists here in south Florida. Those of who are not Gautemalan lawn cutters do not understand this.
After all, they are helioidolaters idiots.
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