Posted on 09/10/2008 3:22:35 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".
kvell • \KVEL\ • verb
to be extraordinarily proud; rejoice
Example sentence:
Critics kvelled over the violinist's triumphant return to the stage where she had made her debut many years ago.
Did you know?
We are pleased to inform you that the word "kvell" is derived from Yiddish "kveln," meaning "to be delighted," which, in turn, comes from the Middle High German word "quellen," meaning "to well, gush, or swell." Yiddish has been a wellspring of creativity for English, giving us such delightful words as "meister" ("one who is knowledgeable about something"), "maven" ("expert"), and "shtick" ("one's special activity"), just to name a few. The date for the appearance of "kvell" in the English language is tricky to pinpoint exactly. The earliest known printed evidence for the word in an English source is found in a 1952 handbook of Jewish words and expressions, but actual usage evidence before that date remains unseen.
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.
As the good citizens of Alaska kvells at the selection of their Governor by McCain, dems panic and the drive-by media scrambles to discredit her, and conservatives continue to rally to her side.
Why Sarah Palin Makes such a Big Difference for the GOP Ticket
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Get to class you slackers!
Get to class you slackers!
Get to class you slackers!
OK, I’ve got to find my towel and dry off and get dressed now.
you’re gonna get aids from sitting on that chair naked....
Must be some towel, you should kvell about it a little bit. Oy.
“I would never go anywhere without my wonderful towel.”
Arthur Dent
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”
I love all those sources and how they are unnamed, with no dates or times to back up their stories. They’re pathetic.
Sometimes the Enquirer hits a home run, but most of the time it strike out.
Hey just because she doesn't look like all those presidents on the dollar bills and she is the change that I believe in and is the one that we've been waiting for does not mean a thing...
And how the heck do you smoke oxycotin? I’m calling bullclinton on this story.
But if they really want to go there:
For example, in recalling his high school days in Hawaii, Obama declares: “I kept playing basketball, attended classes sparingly, drank beer heavily, and tried drugs enthusiastically … If the high didn’t solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world’s ongoing folly.””
I reckon you light it on fire and inhale the fumes. But that's just a guess. ;-)
ask some teenagers about the Palin kids and sure you are going to find one willing to just make up crap about them without being required to give their name.
it’s a pill. it seemes it would be pretty hard to do.
OK, let me revise that:
How the heck do you get high smoking oxycotin?
As the Obama tickets spirals to oblivion, Joe Liebermann leads the kvell dance.
I have no problem kvelling over Sarah Palin, i think she’s kewl!
I’ve never heard of smoking it, but I think just about anything can be delivered faster via inhalation versus ingesting. (As long as the active ingresients aren’t chemically altered, that is.)
But I’m not a doctor.
He’s a gaffe machine and Obams should throw him under da bus.
If you crush a pill, it becomes powder. Powder burns.
i have had oxycontin, and i can’t recall if it’s a capsule or a tablet. in any event, i guess you would have to melt it down and use a pipe to inhale it? i am SO not into the drug culture. Hey, HD is/was, maybe he has some ideas.
xshub is ‘representin’ at the Mccain Palin rally in the park next to Faifax HS today. he wore his Gonzaga Hockey dad shirt, hoping to attract Sarah’s attention, LOL!
We all look at Sarah and kvell
She’s hypnotized us; it’s a spell
Libs say she’s uncouth
But she’s telling the truth
To the left, that’s a very hard sell
The late night comics have turned:
As the Humor Turns: Biden Gets Late-Night Shock Treatment [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Jay Leno: “You know...those glasses” Palin “wears? Those are...a hot item right now. ... Everybody’s buying them. They’re huge, selling much better than the Joe Biden hair plugs.”
Jay Leno: “Out on the campaign trail this week, once again John McCain spoke about the nightmare of being stuck in a...tiny 8 x 10 room thinking he might go crazy. Not in Vietnam — when he got stuck in the Capitol elevator with Joe Biden,” and Biden “wouldn’t shut up.”
David Letterman: “How about that Barack Obama?” They are “saying for the first time he’s starting to slip in the polls,” but “don’t worry. He’s got a plan. He’s going to go back to campaigning in Europe.”
09/10 08:44 AM
That's a good idea.
we’ll see how long that lasts. it has to be disconcerting for the libs, though. i heard meghan mccain on F&F this AM, she sounded so cute and normal. she talked about how people who are running for president from the time they are in HS and college are “annoying”. that is so xsteen. she spends so much of her life being ANNOYED! everything is ANNOYING! LOL!
i can see you emailing me to ask for a hockey shirt to wear when she comes to a venue near you...
They’re tablets. Druggies will crush them and either snort or dissolve them and inject. Lots of people have OD’ed doing that. The F’nDA has big warning labels on the drug. I believe that’s what the notorious Mr. Limbaugh was using.
I’ve got a hockey shirt - in Desert Camo, no less. Helena Bighorns. Bought it for the Princess.
Does Wasilla High School have an online store for their sports merchandise?
oh just ANY hockey shirt won’t do, you want to try to pass yourself off as a HOMEY, LOL!!
Uh hem. That would be the The Great Maja Rushie.
i will be interested to feel out my fellow hockey moms this weekend in re Palin. Saturday is xsboy’s first game of the season for his travel team. and friday i am meeting with 3 other Gonzaga hockey moms bc we are going to be heading up fundraising for the HS team. i hate crap like that but my friend Paula is one of the other 3, so i can’t not help out. i am so NOT a joiner, club belonger type. it grates on me!
Go Warriors.
don’t you dare be a POSEUR!
I’m not seeing that. Especially, if it’s a blowout, there will be no energy for the rioters to draw on.
i guess i don’t see it being a blowout for one thing. and if it’s close, the rioters will claim it was stolen from the black man, you know they will. heck, they claimed it was stolen from the effete elitist nabobs the last two times!
I read the memory keeper’s daughter, made me cry
Let ‘em riot. Then their favorite guy can come re-organize their communnity.
yes, that’s why i couldn’t figure out why SG wasn’t liking it, but now i realize bc we were talking about 2 diff books to each other! i feel like an idiot! There is also a Pittsburgh nexus to the Memory Keepers daughter as well, which made me like it more.
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