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Word For The Day, Thursday, January 22, 2009 - pandiculation
dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | 22 Janiary 2009 | secret garden

Posted on 01/22/2009 4:31:25 AM PST by secret garden



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....


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!


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To: Travis T. OJustice

Or something Bear Grylls would suffer for the camera.


41 posted on 01/22/2009 6:02:36 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: xsmommy
were you as thrown as i was, by the combining of sirius and XM channels?

I'm confused as well. Were you originally a Sirius or an XM subscriber?

42 posted on 01/22/2009 6:03:13 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: Recon Dad

She withdrew because she wasn’t going to be picked, right? A for you.


43 posted on 01/22/2009 6:04:06 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: verga

And trust me, we don’t envy you guys. A for you.


44 posted on 01/22/2009 6:05:04 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I started with XM. I found this:

http://www.xmradio.com/pdf/channel_guide.pdf


45 posted on 01/22/2009 6:05:18 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

i was Sirius first but most recently XM. i knew something was up, but wasn’t sure what. i thought maybe they had just willynilly changed the lineup and mixed up my presets accordingly, but then xsboy told me, no, they have combined so some of the titles of stations changed. i don’t know what Classic Rewind used to be on XM, but i think that’s Sirius title for whatever i used to have preset there.


46 posted on 01/22/2009 6:06:38 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: mikrofon

I liked Rush’s rendition of it, with the sound of it being chiseled into marble in the background. A for you.


47 posted on 01/22/2009 6:06:38 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: xsmommy

Did you notice the Ravenclaw tie and the wand?


48 posted on 01/22/2009 6:06:50 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("They taped over your mouth, Scribbled out the truth with their lies. You little spies!")
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To: secret garden

LMAO! Yeah, that too.


49 posted on 01/22/2009 6:08:14 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: SoothingDave

Didn’t every girl grow up singing Carly’s songs? A+ for you. Now if I could only get this earworm out of my head, Let The River Run...


50 posted on 01/22/2009 6:08:39 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: xsmommy

Did you manage to get your garage door fixed? What was the problem?


51 posted on 01/22/2009 6:10:52 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: CholeraJoe

of course!


52 posted on 01/22/2009 6:10:52 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: NicknamedBob
My nephew told me, some years ago, that a little pandiculation was good for you, even before you get out of bed.

That wouldn't be premature pandiculation?

53 posted on 01/22/2009 6:11:06 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: xsmommy

Norah was right the other day. Where are their cojones? I cannot believe the way they roll over in Washington. A+ for you, F- for the incompetent tax cheat Geithner and the idiots who vote to confirm him.


54 posted on 01/22/2009 6:11:14 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: secret garden

Obama’s slick articulation
Leaves me yawning with pandiculation
Though he speaks quite distinctly
Like Huntley or Brinkley
His words reek of capitulation


55 posted on 01/22/2009 6:12:10 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: xsmommy; CholeraJoe
you ASH ; )

Is this an official ASH Alert?

56 posted on 01/22/2009 6:12:52 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

You’re scary good Truthy. A+


57 posted on 01/22/2009 6:13:54 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

it was the COLD! xshub and xsteen got on the road pretty early that day and left the garage door open behind them. by the time i went to close it, it wasn’t working, as i told you guys. I tried what i could and then called and set up the appt for the guys to come out, but they couldn’t come til Tues. So later that aft, when it was kind of sunny out, i tried again and it closed. I went out and did a few errands, came back and it would not open with the wall button. xsboy came home from school and it opened w/o a problem with the in car button, and closed with it as well. I haven’t had a problem since. so i figure it was just the ambient temp in the garage being single digits had it malfunctioning. it wasn’t the door itself it was the button.


58 posted on 01/22/2009 6:14:35 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember

someone’s feisty today!


59 posted on 01/22/2009 6:15:41 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

It helps to read that post with a Jessie Jackson voice. That’s how I heard it in my head. Now I have a Living Color earworm of the skit about the prison guys talking.


60 posted on 01/22/2009 6:15:47 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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