Word For The Day, Thursday, January 22, 2009 - pandiculation

dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | 22 Janiary 2009 | secret garden

[secret garden]

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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".

pandiculation \pan-dik-yuh-LEY-shuhn\, noun
An instinctive stretching, as on awakening or while yawning

Example sentence:
"Pandiculate for Health! Grow Tall! Get Well! Be Young!" Exuberant ads like this, running in health-fad magazines since 1914, have proclaimed the virtues of a spine-stretching device called the "Pandiculator."
-- Time, 1942-04-12

Etymology:
By 1611, from French pandiculation from Latin pandiculari "to stretch oneself" and French suffix -ion.

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....

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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

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!

[xsmommy]

hillary as an angry GORGON was hilarious, as was this part:

True to the prophesy of the Doritos, wily Crustius had a secret trick up his toga. From his rock-strewn shipwreck he summoned Palina, huntress of Wasilla, Whose fertile loins had many odd-named children bore, Bristol and Trig, Dakota and Algebra, Calculus and Physed, And yet she retained the visage and figure of a goddess.

[secret garden]

Don’t you feel all hale and hearty now?

[xsmommy]

i don’t care for rhyming pomes. they make me itch. this was an EPIC! ; )

[xsmommy]

brokeback COWBOYS interested in Ray Lewis, who [years ago] killed someone in a bar in Baltimore, but was acquitted.

[tioga]

I read it out loud as well........loved it.

Hildusa and Obamacles.......LOL

[dixie sass]

Yea, thou speaketh true.

[SoothingDave]

The epic poem
Can be a bit too wordy
Attention span small

[dixie sass]

I don’t know about hale and hearty, but do feel more limber!

[xsmommy]

seek thee

medication

for thine ADD

lest thou miss the amazing talent.

[xsmommy]

i LOVE parodies like that, it was amazingly clever.

[CholeraJoe]

I thought the hand signs with the wand were a nice touch.

[xsmommy]

i recall a piece Iowahawk did shortly after the terrorist carbombings at the airport in London 2 summers ago [will be three this year]> it was pee in your pants funny. i wish i could find it again, but i don’t know if his archives go back that far or if i just don’t know how to negotiate them.

[xsmommy]

as i predicted, xsteen’s response to my email with the pic was “WOWWWW...scary!” ; )

[Travis T. OJustice]

Iowahawk RULES! Damn, I wish I could right 25% as well as that. DAMN!

[CholeraJoe]

I've got that whole bad boy persona down pretty well.

[xsmommy]

i know! i am literally sending the link to everyone i know!

[xsmommy]

bad boy/deranged person, same diff ; )

[NicknamedBob]

"That wouldn't be premature pandiculation?"

Not as long as you're awake for it.

[siamesecats]

Oh my, there have been times I have pandiculated in the morning and pulled my back out, or caused a charley horse in my leg. Painful!

[secret garden]

Gangsta or Blues Brother? Hard to tell...