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Word for the Day, Monday, February 15, 2010 - Sibyl
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Posted on 02/15/2010 5:14:47 AM PST by tioga


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”.

Sibyl

Noun

    1. One of a number of women regarded as oracles or prophets by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
    2. A woman prophet.

[ultimately from Greek Sibulla, of obscure origin]

sibylline [ˈsɪbɪˌlaɪn sɪˈbɪlaɪn], sibyllic, sibylic [sɪˈbɪlɪk] adj


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If Kathleen Parker thinks of herself as a sibylic mother figure giving advice to Sarah Palin she is a fool. Here she is exposed by Michael Gayner.
1 posted on 02/15/2010 5:14:48 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga
dang, forgot this.........


2 posted on 02/15/2010 5:15:47 AM PST by tioga
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Gabz; Guenevere; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

Ok, class........it’s Monday morning and class is in session.....homework on my desk......valentines in my mailbox....and president’s day essays are due today as well. he, he......if they trash theOne you get an extra red star on your efforts.


3 posted on 02/15/2010 5:18:26 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga

I spell my name Sybil, does that count.


4 posted on 02/15/2010 5:31:00 AM PST by sibb1213
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To: tioga
Good Morning!

"Sibyl! Aunts aren't supposed to express sexy sentiments." He hissed.

5 posted on 02/15/2010 5:31:13 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If we did not believe we could not die, we would never do the things that make us immortal.)
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To: sibb1213

and did you have prophetic knowledge that it would be today’s word? LOL

A+


6 posted on 02/15/2010 5:33:11 AM PST by tioga
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To: sibb1213
I spell my name Sybil, does that count.

In Scrabble it would.

7 posted on 02/15/2010 5:33:58 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: NicknamedBob

A+ hmm.


8 posted on 02/15/2010 5:34:04 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga
Who would have guessed that Peggy the Moocher was a sybil

“Because I never thought this day would ever happen. I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know. If I help [Obama], he’s gonna help me.”

9 posted on 02/15/2010 5:45:48 AM PST by NeoCaveman (we are so doomed (OTP))
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To: NeoCaveman

I mean a sibyl not a sybil.

d’oh


10 posted on 02/15/2010 5:46:21 AM PST by NeoCaveman (we are so doomed (OTP))
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To: NeoCaveman

A+++

she is scary crazy......or is it me? hmm.


11 posted on 02/15/2010 5:48:55 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga

Al Gore was The Prophet, like Sibyl
Global Warming? He knows all, brooks no quibble
Now exposed as a hoax
Butt of millions of jokes
His response: naught but drool, spit and dribble


12 posted on 02/15/2010 5:50:34 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Kenya tell me where Obama was born?)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

LOL

A+++

he IS such a girlie manboy in earthtones.....and he’s gone into hiding hasn’t he? he’s not out shoveling snow and explaining globull warming much these days.


13 posted on 02/15/2010 5:51:58 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga
(Apologies to Chicago/Robert Lamm for hijacking their song, Harry Turman
but it is Presidents Day...)


America needs you
Sarah Palin
Sarah could you please come home
Things are looking bad
I know you would be mad
To see what kind of men
Prevail upon the land you love

America's wondering
How we got here
Sarah all we get is lies
We're punished for our cars
And taxed from here to mars
The bastards sold us out
To get themselves a piece of power

We love to hear you speak your mind
In plain and simple ways
Call a tax a tax
Like they did back in the day
Ignore the liberal papers
Each morning jog some miles
Speak of what was going on
With your honesty and style

America's calling
Sarah Palin
Sarah you know what to do
The world is turnin' round, we're losin' lots of ground
Oh Sarah is there something we can do to save the land we love
Oh whoa whoa whoa

America's calling
Sarah Palin
Sarah you know what to do
The world is turnin' round
And losin' lots of ground
So Sarah is there something we can do to save the land we love
Oh
Sarah is there something we can do to save the land we love
Sarah
Sarah is there something we can do to save the land we love

14 posted on 02/15/2010 6:02:50 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: theDentist

Awesome job...


15 posted on 02/15/2010 6:17:45 AM PST by tioga
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To: theDentist; NeoCaveman
even Red Star is beating out prime time CNN and MSNBC.....LOL and it's on at three am...
16 posted on 02/15/2010 6:19:56 AM PST by tioga
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To: NeoCaveman
Col Allen West comments on your sibylic example of peggy the moocher.....seems she is in his Congressional district..... bet she doesn't vote for him.
17 posted on 02/15/2010 6:26:02 AM PST by tioga
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To: xsmommy
don't miss this one when you finally log on .......SU hires nation's first pagan chaplain? ...no wonder they lost their basketball game...must have been the bad juju hex she put on them.
18 posted on 02/15/2010 6:34:35 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga

You mean Red Eye? I’ve seen a few shows and would rather be sleeping. And I never watch CNN or MSNBC but I will be forced to if that’s where they carry hockey this week.


19 posted on 02/15/2010 6:44:51 AM PST by secret garden (Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.)
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To: secret garden

lol.........yeah, red eye.......guess I was thinking of my earlier post. I have never watched it. can’t stay awake that late.


20 posted on 02/15/2010 6:48:19 AM PST by tioga
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To: sibb1213; xsmommy; NeoCaveman; MHGinTN

Clinton was easy to bride: the going price for ANY access to the president was only 100,000.00 - donated to their personal account (er, the presidential library) - when Hillary was successful at SellBill accounting.


21 posted on 02/15/2010 7:03:44 AM PST by Robert A. Cook, PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: tioga

Recent events have proven again that Ayn Rand is a sibyl without peer


22 posted on 02/15/2010 7:13:42 AM PST by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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To: tioga

Cassandra, recalled as the great Trojan sibyl
proclaimed to all people of Troy’s body civil

“the erstwhile gift, so grand and so stately
drug heedless to caution among us just lately

is none but a ruse, containing destruction”
ignoring her warning, prophetic instruction

they ended their vigil, turned glutton, debaucher
gave over their necks to the blade of their slaughter

The Sybil of course— had she managed survival
would find but contempt on the record archival


23 posted on 02/15/2010 7:19:11 AM PST by tsomer
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To: tioga
As Fawlty Towers fans know, Sibyl:

But Manuel


24 posted on 02/15/2010 7:23:07 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: verga

ah.......good job. A+


25 posted on 02/15/2010 7:26:58 AM PST by tioga
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To: tsomer

A+

yes, she was certainly a sibyl


26 posted on 02/15/2010 7:29:50 AM PST by tioga
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To: SoothingDave

yikes, those blond bangs are wicked.......is she related to nappy silver streak janet?

A+


27 posted on 02/15/2010 7:31:19 AM PST by tioga
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To: SoothingDave

He speaks English very well. He learned it from a boooook.


28 posted on 02/15/2010 7:40:38 AM PST by secret garden (Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.)
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To: NeoCaveman

now evan bayh has dropped out and will not run. ha! the tide has turned and is becoming a tidal wave........


29 posted on 02/15/2010 7:44:49 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga

Are you kidding me?

Wow. The dems are going to lose 8 or 9 senate seats this fall.


30 posted on 02/15/2010 7:46:10 AM PST by NeoCaveman (we are so doomed (OTP))
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To: tioga
Come on guys. Stop arguing and be sibyl to each other.


31 posted on 02/15/2010 7:48:50 AM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: NeoCaveman

he is holding a press conference later today.


32 posted on 02/15/2010 7:49:07 AM PST by tioga
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To: Daffynition

he, he, he.......

A+


33 posted on 02/15/2010 7:50:33 AM PST by tioga
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To: SoothingDave

“Don’t drive over any mines, or anything.”


34 posted on 02/15/2010 7:50:39 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Daffynition; NeoCaveman; SoothingDave; secret garden
Montana Bear Tragedy Everybody should heed the warning to not feed wildlife because they become dependent and cannot forage for themselves anymore. This is such a tragedy to see what they have done to our country's wildlife! The photo below captures a disturbing trend that is beginning to affect US wildlife . . .

Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democrat Party, as they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance. This photo is of a Democrat black bear in Montana nicknamed Bearack Obearma.
35 posted on 02/15/2010 7:53:28 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga

there were rumors, back in the day, of substantial skeletons in Bayh’s closet...


36 posted on 02/15/2010 7:55:42 AM PST by NeoCaveman (we are so doomed (OTP))
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To: NeoCaveman

yeah, he is a dem so who was going to expose them?


37 posted on 02/15/2010 7:57:55 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga
HAHAHA! It's always a shell game with these 'rats!


38 posted on 02/15/2010 8:04:08 AM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: NeoCaveman

So is Bayh planning to run for President???


39 posted on 02/15/2010 8:07:38 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (I support Coach Mike Leach and think Gerald Meyers should be run out of Lubbock!)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

FOX is speculating on that very idea.


40 posted on 02/15/2010 8:10:40 AM PST by tioga
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

OK here are the scenarios for reasons why Evan Bayh is retiring:

1. getting out to save the ego bruise of losing in November.
2. Cashing in as the next head of PHarma or some other lobby group.
3. The wife finally got tired of his philandering and she’s leaving him.
4. He’s gearing up to run in 2012 against Obama from the right.
5. Sort of like #3 but with a dead girl.
6. He’s been bought off and in exchange for being a lap dog for the next 8 months


41 posted on 02/15/2010 8:12:58 AM PST by NeoCaveman (we are so doomed (OTP))
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; tioga

BTW, I think it is probably #1


42 posted on 02/15/2010 8:13:36 AM PST by NeoCaveman (we are so doomed (OTP))
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To: NeoCaveman

you left out “cashing in while still a Senator as opposed to being an defeated has been”......either to run for president or get big bucks.


43 posted on 02/15/2010 8:16:13 AM PST by tioga
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To: secret garden

This: “Basil.”

This: “Basil’s wife.”

This: “slap on head.”


44 posted on 02/15/2010 8:29:52 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: dfwgator

“I do love a woman with spirit.”


45 posted on 02/15/2010 8:31:51 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

I wish they would re-run that series.


46 posted on 02/15/2010 8:32:30 AM PST by secret garden (Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.)
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To: NeoCaveman

47 posted on 02/15/2010 9:09:47 AM PST by tioga
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To: NeoCaveman

I am loving the bye bye bayh threads.....apparently he has withdrawn too close to the filing deadline for another dem to step up? how can that be? he screwed them royally if true.


48 posted on 02/15/2010 9:16:12 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga

Yes filing deadline to get on the primary ballot in Indiana is tomorrow. (In Ohio it is Thursday) The party can pick a nominee in caucus in the event that there is no one selected by primary.


49 posted on 02/15/2010 9:25:59 AM PST by NeoCaveman (we are so doomed (OTP))
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To: NeoCaveman

so the successor will be the party pick? makes sense. still, it WILL tick off a lot of their own party for it to be a pick like that.


50 posted on 02/15/2010 9:27:29 AM PST by tioga
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