Posted on 02/24/2012 5:13:35 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”.
Ruck
Noun
Verb
rucked, rucking, rucks
Verb Tr.
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.
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
oops. A+++
The ad rem of the event boils down to the ruck showing up for breakfast and then someone shouted they had run out of bacon. The crowd wasn’t interested in the gallimaufry of breakfast items if there was no bacon. Thus the cacography on the walls included food from the food fight that ensued. The tenebrific zeitgeist was rowdy with food flying everywhere. The panjandrum who started it all was smiling as he sat in detention that night. He got a minatory lecture from the principal who exuviated the BS and came up with the idoneous punishment. The culprit had spent the day scrubbing down the cafeteria. The principal, a funambulist, was fairly pedant about the cleanup. The cafeteria was now spotless. Till they run out of bacon again.
The ad rem elements of the event.....blah, blah.....
Translation for dogs, er men:
Blah blah blah bacon. Blah blah blah blah bacon blah. Blah blah blah blah. Blah blah. Blah blah bacon.
Thank you!
While walkiung in the woods collecting wood, I was checking out the various animal tracks, watching for the cougar’s. I came across some of the biggest deer tracks I’ve ever seen outside of mule deer country (we only have white tails here)-they came within less than a foot of some normal sized white tail tracks, and they were half again as big.
Sometimes, where there are exotic game ranches nearby, you will find tracks of sika, fallow, red and other imported large deer species, and yes, mule deer too-but there are no such ranches within at least 10 miles that I know of, and the nearest native mulies are a few hundred miles away in west Texas so that is really weird.
I found the cougar’s fresh tracks, as usual at the top of the next hill, leading into the deepest part of the woods above the rockfall (and the dumpsters at the park)-no sign of a victim being killed or dragged away this time, though...
While walking in the woods collecting wood, I was checking out the various animal tracks, watching for the cougar’s. I came across some of the biggest deer tracks I’ve ever seen outside of mule deer country (we only have white tails here)-they came within less than a foot of some normal sized white tail tracks, and they were half again as big.
Sometimes, where there are exotic game ranches nearby, you will find tracks of sika, fallow, red and other imported large deer species, and yes, mule deer too-but there are no such ranches within at least 10 miles that I know of, and the nearest native mulies are a few hundred miles away in west Texas so that is really weird.
I found the cougar’s fresh tracks, as usual at the top of the next hill, leading into the deepest part of the woods above the rockfall (and the dumpsters at the park)-no sign of a victim being killed or dragged away this time, though...
Gee, I have no idea what kind of dear we have around here. And I wouldn’t know a cougar print at all. I feel like a true city girl.
I learned the most common animal tracks as a ranch kid-but I keep a copy of the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals right here on my computer desk for anything I’m in doubt about. Mule deer tracks are a bit different from whitetail deer-the ones I saw yesterday were not mulie tracks.
Cougar and other cat tracks are roundish, with four toes-no claw prints. Tracks of dogs/coyotes etc are round WITH claw prints-if I don’t see claw prints, I back the hell off that trail.
The tracks I’m most afraid of are those of feral/wild hogs-I’m terrified of the things-they are very dangerous and unpredictable. Fortunately, I rarely see them in the woods...
Kennedy probably wanted to take the kid to the lobby for a photo op-the family has always seemed addicted to those. I’m no fan of the Kennedys, but at the risk of being a bitch-a child belongs to the parents, not the government or the personnel of the place where the mother gave birth. I don’t give a damn what the people who work there thought was “proper”, the kid belongs to the Kennedy couple, period.
Most of us pay for the services of a hospital or birthing center, so that makes care a purchased service you can stop at any time. When my cub was born, we walked out of the hospital/birthing center 12 hours after the birth with her, and no one said a thing but “enjoy your baby”, and handed me a receipt for my co-pay. That said, if I were young and starting a family, you can bet that I’d retain the services of a nurse practitioner-midwife for a home birth, no matter what the cost. It is getting to the point that we shouldn’t even have a baby without retaining a lawyer to protect our rights-my money, my kid, my business.
SU has nothing but close games. Yea SU!
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