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Word for the Day, Tuesday April 3, 2012

Posted on 04/03/2012 5:18:52 AM PDT by SoothingDave

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To: secret garden

Long “o” - when I lived in Taiwan, we had a handyman at Special Services we called Skosh. Vertically challenged even for a Taiwanese.


21 posted on 04/03/2012 5:46:17 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

so what’s new with you?? been about a decade at least!


22 posted on 04/03/2012 5:46:44 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

Oh, yes.


23 posted on 04/03/2012 5:47:59 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy; SoothingDave

I thought it was yiddish as well.


24 posted on 04/03/2012 5:48:30 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (ABO)
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To: Explorer89

I wouldn’t know. Nothing so exotic as Polish in my lineage. Irish/Scotish/Swedish.


25 posted on 04/03/2012 5:49:48 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Good Lord - how did you escape long enough to post here? lol Nice to see you -


26 posted on 04/03/2012 5:49:50 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (ABO)
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To: secret garden; SoothingDave
"It’s a long o, though, right?"

Yeah. It's like skoshialism; you're not supposed to notice the modest changes.

27 posted on 04/03/2012 5:50:43 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (I didn't feel up to going through a second childhood. That's why I had myself cloned.)
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To: xsmommy

Those and the Little Me for babies were my favorites.


28 posted on 04/03/2012 5:50:47 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: NicknamedBob

Now that’s funny! Or punny...


29 posted on 04/03/2012 5:51:29 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

always loved the farmer overalls!


30 posted on 04/03/2012 5:52:54 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

But Garanimals made it easy to mix and match.


31 posted on 04/03/2012 5:58:54 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Explorer89

And, yes, I like whiskey and meatballs. Not necessarily in the same bowl.


32 posted on 04/03/2012 6:00:13 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
At the end of four years, it can have been said,
daily, weekly, annually, that the tyrant Barack Hussein Obama
has had not a skosh of documentation OR concern
for either the American people OR the US Constitution.

"There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh - get first all the people's money, then their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever. It will be said that we do not propose to establish kings. I know it. But there is a natural inclination in mankind to kingly government. It sometimes
relieves them from aristocratic domination. They had rather have one tyrant than 500. It gives more the appearance of equality among citizens, and that they like.
I am apprehensive - therefore - perhaps too apprehensive - that the government of these States may in future times end in a monarchy [not called a monarchy but an executive with monarchial powers]. But this catastrophe, I think, may long be delayed, if in our proposed system we do not sow the seeds of contention, faction and tumult, by making our posts of honor places of profit. If we do, I fear that, though we employ at first a number and not a single person, the number will in time be set aside, it will only nourish the fetus of a king (as the honorable gentleman from Virginia very aptly expressed it), and a king will the sooner be set over us."

-- Benjamin Franklin



33 posted on 04/03/2012 6:10:38 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: SoothingDave; NeoCaveman; hobbes1
Football fans, we have a winner. Yes, Virginia, there is someone more stupid than Vince Young.
34 posted on 04/03/2012 6:20:32 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave
The Romans long ago probably realized that from their well-known "frugality," it was difficult to get more than a skosh from the Scotia...
35 posted on 04/03/2012 6:21:24 AM PDT by mikrofon (Hoot, mon.)
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To: secret garden

a 4 out of 50 on a test designed so that football players can pass it, unbelievable.


36 posted on 04/03/2012 6:29:18 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (SMOD 2012)
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To: SoothingDave

Skosh

Part of the phrase, From skosh to skosh, meaning leaving one low pay job for another. Skosh may also describe getting stepped on by “You know Who”. Skosh is a little less than squash which is a little less than squish. Skosh, squah, squish.


37 posted on 04/03/2012 6:36:12 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: NeoCaveman
Conservatives better look to THIS and resolve to VOTE their @$$e$ off in November NO MATTER WHO THE FREAKING CANDIDATE IS.

and i better hear Sarah ABO Palin out there whipping up her acolytes to vote for Mitt Romney as the ABO candidate, because they are going to need convincing.

38 posted on 04/03/2012 6:39:58 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

We may need a second Obama administration to get some peoples’ attention.


39 posted on 04/03/2012 6:59:06 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: secret garden; tioga; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
seriously. REALLY? we left the house in this?


40 posted on 04/03/2012 7:00:20 AM PDT by xsmommy
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