Posted on 07/26/2012 8:48:57 AM PDT 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”.
Maunder
Int. Verb
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
I get an overseas bonus, 25% of my salary for every hour worked or traveling. There is hazard pay of 40%, but I’ve never gotten that.
That would be for either sea platform work or somewhere where you needed armed guards like Yemen.
Lmao. I’d have to cut off both as cheeks to get back to the same size as 30
I’m the boss now. I’m only here because of my guys’ vacations. I was leaving Monday regardless for meetings I need to be at.
My #1 guy has his passport at a consulate. I’ll send him here if that comes back in the next few days.
I’ve got another guy in Chile. He showed up and his hard drive crapped out.
When did they start making blonde Greeks?
That’s almost as disconcerting as the white people here with the island accent. You get this interesting combination of Welsh or Irish lilting and island. Depending on what you focus on, you either pick up one or the other.
So a man touching a woman in a sexual manner is “professional?”. ;-)
Also, insert George Costanza “I think it moved” here.
Xsbaby’s fave HS teacher isn’t coming back next year bc his wife works for a defense contractor and I guess they are going for the big bucks. They are goingto Jordan. I’m pretty appalled bc they have a baby who was born this past spring. He’s a former Marine, but the infant would def give me pause.
Yemen? That is hardly even worth considering.
In the late 80’s I worked for a shipping/moving company that did primarily OS relocations for military and oil co’s-the assistant manager was the worst jerk imaginable. From the drivers to the dispatchers, we discussed fantasies we had about drugging him, putting him in an OS crate and shippimg him to someplace where he wouldn’t get back soon because he didn’t speak the language. We decided on Yemen after much discussion, and even gave everyone a part to play in his forced vacation.
We came very close to actually doing the deed, but one of the drivers reminded us that we were planning a very real crime. We felt bad for awhile after that, because he died several months later of a brain tumor...
Too much good food...
My wife would never deal with a foreign thing, even a safe thing like Japan. (Our parent is Japanese).
Heck, moving out of Pittsburgh would be almost unthinkable. You know how we are. ;-).
My former boss, still with the company but not my supervisor now, lived in Brazil and Saudi at one time. He had a perfect description of working in Saudi:
He said when you show up in Saudi you are given two buckets. One fills up with $, one with crap. When you’ve had enough of one or the other, you leave.
Tim Thomas speaking out in support of chickfila and I’ve had to unfollow a few hockey peeps who’ve Pd me O.
That WAS badly worded, wasn’t it? I meant that the touching doesn’t seem professional, because when a man touches an unclothed woman that way, it is usually thought of as being sexual-not professional at all (unless he is a gigolo, male hooker or some such thing)...
Yemen is a bad example right now cause no one is willing to go. Certainly no Americans or Europeans.
But Saudi would, I believe, qualify for hazard pay.
Good analogy.
I wouldn’t be me if I let a statement like that go by. ;-)
Xs say “asspain”. ;-)
Happy early birthday! And that is not sagging or wrinkles-it is wisdom and experience, I say-hey, if Loreal doesn’t make it look better, then nothing was wrong with it in the first place.
I heard from a friend in college whose dad worked for and traveled with an oil co that Saudi used to be a great place to go back in the days before terrorists and corruption-it seems there are lots of places like that.
Let’s see if he “Sashays” with Carolina and how they’ll tolerate that type of play...
Nashville must be bankrupt now with all those high-level signings, esp. Weber ;)
I’m betting the curtains don’t match the carpet.
What carpet?
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