;Posted on 09/10/2012 5:25:10 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 9/10/12
;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".
gainsay; verb
verb (used with object), gain·said, gain·say·ing. 1. to deny, dispute, or contradict. 2. to speak or act against; oppose.
Etymology: "to contradict," c.1300, lit. "say against," from O.E. gegn- "against" + say. "Solitary survival of a once common prefix" [Weekley], which was used to form such now-obsolete compounds as gain-taking "taking back again," gainclap "a counterstroke," gainbuy "redeem," and gainstand "to oppose."
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.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
I meant your IPAD, perv
Chuck rhymes with Suck.
I heard they sample a disproportionate number of ‘rats in some of those polls-
Everyone who dared to gainsay
Obama’s telling of mediscare cuts
Was labeled cruel and uncaring
As well as certifiably nuts-
Ryan throws the wheelchair bound
Off a cliff to the rocks below
In an ill-thought political ad-
But now there’s a brand new show
Just in from Sebelius and the gang
Get in line for your vouchers now-
If you’re quick, you might be treated
Even better than a horse or a cow
I think those little laundry pods look a bit like the photo of jewel candies beside the recipe for same in a candy and cookie cookbook I have. But to xs’s point, does anyone eat even a visually appealing food item if it doesn’t have an odor of food?
my SIL reminded me that my niece, who is now 26 yo and a librarian, drank something lemony smelling from her grandmothers detergent cup when she was small. She didn’t even get sick, just said i do NOT LIKE whatever grandmother has in that cup, it does NOT taste good. xsSIL called poison control and they said just give them plenty to drink to dilute it. this little piglet is the same niece who came to xshub and i, when they were visiting and before we had kids of our own, to ask “Can i have this candybar [a supersized snickers, gigunda!]” and i said, well you have to ask your mom and she replied “but she’ll say no!”
What kind of household cleaner was it? That child was lucky indeed.
While one of my mom’s sisters was stationed in Italy with her husband, they went on a train trip to Paris. They bought a bunch of small gifts-mostly humorous and odd ones-and sent them to family and friends. The ones they sent to my parents were a foil box of chocolate covered ant squares, and a little tin with a pretty picture of a woman in a sari on it that contained what looked like malted milk balls-they were actually flavored laxative.
My brother and I did sample the ants on a dare-they weren’t that bad-but one of my cousins ate several of the laxative candy things just because the tin was so pretty she assumed it contained real candy. She was really in a bad way for a couple of days, and we have never let her forget it.
No one can gainsay that the DNC was an absolute ZOO. Assorted white and minority trash festooned with stupid hats and union buttons, a radical San Antonio mayor with his MONSTER mother from La Raza Unida, a fake college student, a fake Indian, the ghosts of Bill clinton and Joe Biden, and hijab-clad muslimahs cheering for women’s “rights”.
To top it all off, there was obama, spouting a bunch of teleprompter-driven drivel, including saying that a “community” built a business, not an entrepreneur. But if you want to see what obama REALLY wants to do for a second term, buy a ticket to “2016: obama’s America”.
I turned on the TV and there was that picture of Joe Biden with a woman apparently sitting on his lap, with a biker jacket type guy on each side-is he auditioning to do Bill Clinton’s gig now?
There was a funny #game making up names of Joe’s biker gang. There were some good ones.
M: I came here for a good argument.
A: No you didn’t; no, you came here for an argument.
M: An argument isn’t just contradiction.
A: It can be.
M: No it can’t. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
A: No it isn’t.
M: Yes it is! It’s not just contradiction.
A: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
M: Yes, but that’s not just saying ‘No it isn’t.’
A: Yes it is!
M: No it isn’t!
A: Yes it is!
M: Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.
(short pause)
A: No it isn’t.
#JoeBidenBikerGangs
Rolling Blunders
Sons of Lobotomy
Plug’s Mugs
BFD Gang
The Villages People
The Empty Sidecars
typical soother convo. ; ) A+++
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