Posted on 11/18/2008 5:13:40 AM PST by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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".
deipnosophist [dahyp-nos-uh-fist]
-n
a person who is an adept conversationalist at table.
[1650–60; after a literary work by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, an expert in affairs of the kitchen, equiv. to Gk deîpno(n) meal + sophists sophist ]
An Italian deipnosophist is unlikely to get a nose-a-fist..
The many deipnosophists of WFTD were silenced by the recent FR downtime...
The One reads the teleprompter well, but a deipnosophist he ain’t.
Ven al banquete
huh?
Schoen mal wieder?
Come to the feast. You must not sing any biligual hymns. (For the one Fillipina in our parish.)
It’s about Dang Time!
While us non-deipnosophist went for a beer.
I think that’s kinda like Pug Mahone.
I knew Pug Mahone. Wicked brawler when he hit the whiskey.
good GRIEF he took a long time!
No one wants to see your wieder.
Hast Du etwas Zeit für mich (If you have some time for me)
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich (Then I will sing a song for you)
Von 99 Luftballons (Of 99 Luftballons)
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont (On their way to the horizon)
Denkst Du vielleicht grad’ an mich (If you perhaps are thinking of me now)
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich (Then I will sing a song for you)
Von 99 Luftballons (Of 99 Luftballons)
Und dass sowas von sowas kommt {And that thing that they caused)
99 Luftballons (99 Luftballons)
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont (On their way to the horizon)
Hielt man fuer UFOs aus dem All (All perceived as enemy aircraft)
Darum schickte ein General (So a general sent)
Eine Fliegerstaffel hinterher (a scout plane in)
Alarm zu geben, wenn es so war (to sound an alarm, if they were)
Dabei war da am Horizont (but there on the horizon were)
Nur 99 Luftballons (just 99 Luftballons)
99 Duesenjaeger (99 fighter jocks)
Jeder war ein grosser Krieger (each was a great fighter)
Hielten sich fuer Captain Kirk (Thought of themselves as CAPT Kirk)
Das gab ein grosses Feuerwerk (it caused great fireworks)
Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft (the neighbors had nothing to loose)
Und fuehlten sich gleich angemacht (and were just as excited)
Dabei schoss man am Horizont (so someone shot at the horizon)
Auf 99 Luftballons (over 99 Luftballons)
99 Kriegsminister (99 ministers of war)
Streichholz und Benzinkanister (like matches and gasoline)
Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute (though of themselves as clever)
Witterten schon fette Beute (launch already fat plunder)
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht (cried: War and power)
Mann, wer haette das gedacht (Man, who woulda’ thunk it)
Dass es einmal soweit kommt (that it would go this far)
Wegen 99 Luftballons (due to 99 Luftballons)
99 Jahre Krieg (99 years of war)
Liessen keinen Platz fuer Sieger (left no room for a winner)
Kriegsminister gibt es nicht mehr (there are no more ministers of war)
Und auch keine Duesenflieger (and no more fighter pilots)
Heute zieh ich meine Runden (today I turn around)
Seh die Welt in Truemmern liegen (see the world laying in ruins)
Hab’ nen Luftballon gefunden (I found a Luftballon)
Denk’ an Dich und lass’ ihn fliegen (I thought of you and let it fly)
That’s what she said.
Then don’t look, ethel! Awe, too late, she got a free shot.
Awwww, that’s so sweet of you.
whole lot of HOMO-ing going on around here!
Well, you will like this, I guess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQYQTFudrqc&feature=related
Looks like my wife.
Can’t do youtube, bummer!
No need to be jealous. :)
what a romantic story...
yunz go right on ahead! ; )
several of them look like teenagers!
hey, they aren’t in juvee.
and what an ugly bunch they are.
it’s always nice when the uglo-americans can find each other...
So the freep finally got up and running again today? About time. I think that deipnosophist is a good description of what Corey the Welldigger was not when Hannity called him about his letter to Nobama. His letter was well-written but I think he was caught offguard by the phone call to verify his identity and the info in his letter. Given enough time, I think most of us are better on paper than in spontaneous public speaking.
Any port in a storm.
That was a great letter. Proof positive that we have what it takes to succeed.
Now if we could just apply that kind of gumption to political machinations ...
Maybe our Newts and Roves could do something along the lines of:
We the People
Joe the Plumber
Corey the Driller
and all the rest of us.
Them’s alotta letters to say tawks too much!
chuck will be happier in an obama administration...where nancy will pull that football everytime he tries for a field goal.....what a rino.
I wake up today to two more inches of snow on my car and NO FR.....what a lousy day.
i am exhausted. i baked my behind off today. tomorrow is the last Gonzaga hockey bake sale of the season, in the cafeteria. i am taking time off from my PAYING job to go sell slices of pie and cookies to HS boys! i made two choc pecan pies and 2 pumpkin. and a shopping bag full of cookies.
We are doing a pre-Thanksgiving dinner for one of our classes Thursday so I’ll be baking tomorrow.
Actually the FReep has made me a better deipnosophist, with its plethora of info, both political & offbeat.
OMG....ED Hill fired by Fox....over an Obama comment....we are DOOMED.....they’d put me in a reeducation camp for sure.
Every day, there are more signs that we really need to prepare for another revolution.
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