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Word for the Day, Monday, April 12, 2010-- bowdlerize
4/12/10 | xs

Posted on 04/12/2010 5:07:24 AM PDT by xsmommy

Word For The Day, Monday, 4/12/10



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".

bowdlerize; verb

1 : to expurgate (as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar 2 : to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content

Etymology:

1830–40; after Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), English editor of an expurgated edition of Shakespeare

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.

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Practice makes perfect.....post on....




TOPICS: Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: bowdlerize; censorship; deception; wordfortheday
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To: hobbes1

there was no interest, even REMOTE, in attempting to be helpful in any way. when we were on the steps of st patricks, a lady was asking me where something was, and i stood there and took the time to explain it to her. my family was laughing at me being the one to do it, but i said, well for heaven’s sake not another soul would bother to tell her, at least i told her what i could!


41 posted on 04/12/2010 6:03:39 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: aruanan

A+++ they are burning it, as if it were a flag.


42 posted on 04/12/2010 6:04:15 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

What’s the motive?


43 posted on 04/12/2010 6:04:45 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: hobbes1

we didn’t go in via a tunnel, we went over GW bridge and exited via the Holland Tunnel to go home. We spent the night at a doubletree hotel in Ft Lee. even though they wouldn’t permit the dogs to stay in the hotel, it had a covered garage and they at least had some grass to pee on. we were chatting with the waiter, a guy named FRANK, he was a dago, at dinner there and asking him questions etc about parking in the city etc. I mentioned something about the dogs not being allowed and he said, why didn’t you bring them in anyway, say it was medical. We roared! i said yeah, seeing eye cavaliers, that’s the ticket!


44 posted on 04/12/2010 6:09:48 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

That’s the problem with the city. No Southerners to be polite and helpful.


45 posted on 04/12/2010 6:10:01 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave

i don’t know, de-stabilize the gov’t and maybe get in some russkypuppetwannabes?


46 posted on 04/12/2010 6:10:39 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

i will talk to anyone anywhere. and it was only in retrospect that i realized that they were taken aback that i even approached them with a question in the first place, there was definitely a sense of ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? LOL!


47 posted on 04/12/2010 6:12:30 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
What's the opposite of bowdlerize? That's what these derps are attempting to do.
48 posted on 04/12/2010 6:14:29 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

A+++ hoisted on their own petards, those losers are.


49 posted on 04/12/2010 6:15:52 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave; Texan5
Okay cat people, can your cat do this? Mine cannot, he is merely a pointer and can barely slaughter rogue insects.
50 posted on 04/12/2010 6:16:13 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

he harbors a misapprehension that he can talk his way into or out of anything; ain’t working for him so far. A+++


51 posted on 04/12/2010 6:17:00 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

that cat was either hypnotized or under the influence of a mindaltering substance ROR!


52 posted on 04/12/2010 6:18:20 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1

Which exit are you? I have family at exit 9.


53 posted on 04/12/2010 6:20:12 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

15W on the Turnpike.

I live right near Rt. 280.


54 posted on 04/12/2010 6:21:26 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: hobbes1; TruthShallSetYouFree

Isn’t it funny how people up there know where they live by their exits?


55 posted on 04/12/2010 6:23:39 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: xsmommy

That’s a word I’ve never seen before. Shouldn’t that be spelled bawdlerize. The removal of bawdy words....;)


56 posted on 04/12/2010 6:30:00 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (I'm armed and Amish.)
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To: secret garden

Like grid coordinates...


57 posted on 04/12/2010 6:30:56 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: secret garden; hobbes1

xs fam thought it was stupid that you can’t pump your own gas and cannot make a LEFT turn. Gas was dang cheap there too. i drove home from exit 3 rest stop. xshub got down from the driving-martyr cross [loved that way of putting it, SG!] i was sleepy, but i cannot SLEEP if i look over and see his eyes closing while he’s behind the wheel, so it’s the worst possible situation. he fought me, but then slept til we got stuck in traffic on the beltway. RME>


58 posted on 04/12/2010 6:31:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Electric Graffiti

that’s a great point! A+++


59 posted on 04/12/2010 6:31:40 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; SoothingDave
i don’t know, de-stabilize the gov’t and maybe get in some russkypuppetwannabes?

Like Kyrgyszstan. Plus they now have Ukraine back in their sphere of influence.

Of course we are going to need to make peace with the expansionist Bear because we have no money left nor any real national interest in stopping it.

60 posted on 04/12/2010 6:36:33 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (we now live in a post-Obamapacolyptic world)
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