Posted on 03/06/2012 5:07:57 AM PST by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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".
taradiddle [tar-uh-did-l]
-n, informal
1. a small lie; fib.
2. pretentious nonsense.
[1790–1800; origin uncertain]
I did not even follow the link, cause my friends in high school and I played padiddles when we were out cruising around on Friday nights. The Spring is the best time to find them as the cold winter kills headlights. We also made wishes when we went under yellow lights, and they always came true :)
never heard of this game ever, and thus xsbro and i didn’t ever play it.
Just checked that link.....we did NOT play strip-pediddle!!!
Oddly enough, yellow light wishes also involved hitting the ceiling.......
That sounds like something a 3-y/o might say to deflect the blame to his sister Tara...
Not with your siblings, anyway. If siblings are involved it’s about hitting them, like playing punchbug.
No, I’m not at all.
Without a conservative to choose from, I don’t blame them for not turning out. Sad state of affairs. Why I bother to vote here in NY, I have no idea. The state will go to the dems no matter what. Tonight’s results should shake things loose a bit.
LOL
Surely a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
But Rhett-where shall ah GO? What shall ah DO?
Frankly, Miss Scarlett...
Home for lunch-
With the surfeit of taradiddle
Over trivia and calling names
We can add the totally ridiculous
To the list of poilitical games
A slut over here, a bigot there
And for students, everything free-
In California, bankrupt cities
Are still looking for another fee
Never mind that tax happy cities
Are emptying like a leaky jar
Taking businesses and people
To states where lower taxes are
I left the TV on Animal Planet for the pets to watch-but there is suddenly a message that says reception is interrupted by sunspots-now it is off and I can get Fox news-is it another sign of the end times...
Rules! And I cannot do pics from the ipad.
OK, if it is Gingrich/West. If Romney asks, he should say no, or he will be made the scapegoat ala Sarah.
No, it’s a sign of the satellite moving directly into the sun’s path. Happens twice a year.
if he gets the nomination i want Romney to pick a conservative running mate to hopefully attract enough conservatives so that we defeat Obama.
My daughter has always done one of the best Scarlett imitations ever, starting when she saw Burnett on TV as a little kid-it always made her dad and I laugh.
That is one of my favorite dumb things said by a ditzy woman in a book or movie-another fav is from “Peyton Place”-Constance McKenzie in the sack with that guy Rossi, saying to him “was it GOOD for you?” That made me laugh even though I was 10 years old and reading my mom’s copy under cover of night...
You know how it’s not right to laugh during a newscast about a 1 year old who died? Well, some yinzer neighbor tested that theory yesterday. You woulda loved it.
She referred to the whole scene, with the police and ambulance as a “hot mess.”
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