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Word for the Day, Monday, April 16, 2012-- picayune
4/16/12 | xs

Posted on 04/16/2012 4:40:14 AM PDT by xsmommy

Word For The Day, Monday, 4/16/12

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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".

picayune; adj.

1. of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount. 2. petty, carping, or prejudiced: I didn't want to seem picayune by criticizing. noun 3. (formerly, in Louisiana, Florida, etc.) a coin equal to half a Spanish real. 4. any small coin, as a five-cent piece. 5. Informal . an insignificant person or thing.

Etymology: 1780–90; < Provençal picaioun small copper coin (compare French picaillons ), derivative of an onomatopoetic base *pikk- beat, here referring to the coining of coppers

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....




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To: NeoCaveman

interesting! A+++


41 posted on 04/16/2012 8:12:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

That Rosen woman, is a lesbian, probably because no sober man would....well, you can see where that is going. ; )

This may be different for other lesbians you know, but.....


42 posted on 04/16/2012 8:26:42 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: hobbes1; SoothingDave; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; secret garden

and so, no one wants to discuss the whoring SS in Colombia? what the hell is THAT about?


43 posted on 04/16/2012 8:30:17 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Picayune: Word used in Southern states to denote that you have been chosen to play in a pickup football game.

i.e. “I'll picayune Bobby”

44 posted on 04/16/2012 8:33:13 AM PDT by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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To: xsmommy

All the agents in question have been transferred to the Can’t Keep a Secret Service.


45 posted on 04/16/2012 9:05:18 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

Awwww, shucks! You’re excused. After all your garage was closed! (I wondered why taxes weren’t due today...)


46 posted on 04/16/2012 9:07:03 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Cowman

A+++


47 posted on 04/16/2012 9:07:37 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: afraidfortherepublic; SoothingDave; tioga
where the heck is Ti? bc i know dang well, SHE would have come to class with this little item

Hillary getting down in the Cartagena, sucking off a bottle of God knows what! I have been to Cartagena, it is very pretty there. and AGUARDIENTE is the colombian spirit of choice.

48 posted on 04/16/2012 9:14:59 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1

it is clear that this group of gringas is all red in the face and animated. aguardiente is a clear liquid, flavored like licorice, and literally means BURNING WATER. if they are doing shots of it, it’s separate and apart from this which looks to be beer.


49 posted on 04/16/2012 9:17:41 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

she will forever be Swillary to me now...


50 posted on 04/16/2012 9:20:48 AM PDT by tioga (Yesterday's Flower Children are today's Blooming Idiots.)
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To: tioga
AI mami!


51 posted on 04/16/2012 9:25:28 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I’ve had a few picayune details to do with some banquets this morning.


52 posted on 04/16/2012 9:27:56 AM PDT by tioga (Yesterday's Flower Children are today's Blooming Idiots.)
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To: tioga

one wonders why she is dancing with the wimmens instead of a nice caballero... In Colombia, i only danced with guys, and it’c customary for them to hold you and dance closely enough so as to “brillar la cintura” [polish the belt buckle


53 posted on 04/16/2012 9:30:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

was Huma there to protect her virtue?


54 posted on 04/16/2012 9:38:45 AM PDT by tioga (Yesterday's Flower Children are today's Blooming Idiots.)
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To: xsmommy

Huma isn’t a “stay at home mom” is she?


55 posted on 04/16/2012 9:58:43 AM PDT by tioga (Yesterday's Flower Children are today's Blooming Idiots.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
New Orleans' "Newspaper of Record" is the Times-Picayune.

Perhaps the old Daily Picayune newspaper of New Orleans, a predecessor to today's Times-Picayune, was called that because of its price. In addition to being the word for the Spanish half real piece used in the South, "picayune" was also the nickname of the US half dime.

I checked in my stack of articles from old New Orleans Picayune newspapers and found that in February 1861 the yearly subscription price amounted to five cents per issue. When sold separately the price was six cents per issue.

56 posted on 04/16/2012 10:01:47 AM PDT by rustbucket
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To: tioga

dang, i forgot she gave birth to the Weiner’s child. what did they have again? she may still be on maternity leave.


57 posted on 04/16/2012 10:14:24 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Dem Pittsburgh Picayunes sure is a puny ice hockey team! < /philly off >

Hard to believe based on the last few years that a Bylsma-coached team can be so abysmal. With the way things go in this league, I can certainly see him being the fall guy for this failure...

58 posted on 04/16/2012 10:39:56 AM PDT by mikrofon (NHL Bump)
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To: mikrofon

A+++ and an extra + for the bylsma/abysmal!
wouldn’t it be great if he came to the Caps?? i don’t care for Dale Hunter, hate the style of play. While i want them to make it further into the playoffs, i do not want him credited with success bc i think he sucks. if they go any distance at all, it will be despite him, and not because of him.


59 posted on 04/16/2012 10:51:28 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: mikrofon

and the funniest thing, if my beloved would come to the Caps, would be the exploding xsgirls heads, bc they HATE bylsma!


60 posted on 04/16/2012 10:53:39 AM PDT by xsmommy
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