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Word for the Day, Monday, September 17, 2012-- persiflage
9/17/12 | xs

Posted on 09/17/2012 5:30:38 AM PDT by xsmommy

Word For The Day, Monday, 9/17/12



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".

persiflage; noun

. light, bantering talk or writing. 2. a frivolous or flippant style of treating a subject.

Etymology: 1757, from Fr. persiflage, from persifler "to banter," from L. per- "through" + Fr. siffler "to whistle, hiss," from collateral form of L. sibilare "to hiss," possibly of imitative origin.

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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Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with WFTD.

I pray this is true. The absolutely ridiculous persiflage that goes on by the MSM in purporting to cover Obama makes my blood boil! how can they be permitted to get away with this?? yes, new media is covering it, but the great American unwashed still gets their news from the MSM, and it's an abomination!

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

No pushing at the door please!

1 posted on 09/17/2012 5:30:43 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: mikrofon; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; sig226; IAGreywolf; Conspiracy Guy; Laura Earl; ...

I am beyond agitated about the media and what they are permitted to get away with. A CNN reporter on twitter, tweeted a link to an obama FUNDRAISING SITE. soliciting $ support for him!?!?!?!


2 posted on 09/17/2012 5:33:25 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

i am headed to the Toyota dealer where i will be parked waiting for my highlander to be fixed. The driver side window is completely off track and will no longer close. It’s cold and supposed to be rainy this week so i have to sit there and wait til it’s done. They have free wifi though so i will be grading homework, don’t worry ; )


3 posted on 09/17/2012 5:35:19 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I just woke up and am listening to the persiflage on Fox and Friends.


4 posted on 09/17/2012 5:44:26 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (Joe Biden is reported to be seeking asylum in a foreign country so he does not have to debate Ryan.)
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To: xsmommy

Barack’s moronic entourage
Of left-wing press tries camouflage

“Everything ‘O’ is just groovy
They’re not mad at him, it’s the movie”

Just repartee and badinage
Analysis by persiflage


5 posted on 09/17/2012 5:49:40 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (When the Obama poster fades, the portrait of Che Guevara beneath it shows through.)
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To: xsmommy; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Mr Pants: You’ve really worked out your banter, haven’t you?

Edmund: No, not really. This is a different thing. It’s spontaneous and it’s called `wit’


6 posted on 09/17/2012 5:49:58 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I missed it but xshub said someone got one over on Gretchen. Posed as disillusioned obamabot.not on mediaite yet .


7 posted on 09/17/2012 5:50:33 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
The Politico is nothing but pernicious persiflage.
8 posted on 09/17/2012 6:15:57 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: xsmommy

Persiflage

In between reprogramming pacemakers at the county home the guys from the garage engaged in some persiflage with the old folks and installed a combat video game in Squire Morris.

He bantered down the fire door and is thought to be living in a nearby woods with a concur (that’s a dog that’s been in prison).


9 posted on 09/17/2012 6:16:12 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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The persiflage treatment of the death of our Ambassador as ‘just one of those things as he knew he was in a dangerous place’ irritates the hell out of me. No matter the Party in the WH, this is an Ambassador, and for him to be without protection at any time (allegations of no bullets in the Marines guns) shoudl demand a f***ing criminal investigation!


10 posted on 09/17/2012 6:17:19 AM PDT by theDentist (FYBO/FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

A++++ I can’t take it any more!!!!


11 posted on 09/17/2012 6:19:33 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
bigheadfred brings his persiflage to the visual world.


12 posted on 09/17/2012 6:19:33 AM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: afraidfortherepublic

A+++


13 posted on 09/17/2012 6:20:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

R&B artist Percy Sledge didn't treat his soul-rendering compositions with persiflage...

14 posted on 09/17/2012 6:21:08 AM PDT by mikrofon ("When A Man Loves A Woman")
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My favorite of his songs is “When a Man Loves a Woman.”


15 posted on 09/17/2012 6:22:15 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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My favorite of his songs is “When a Man Loves a Woman”...

Oh, wait, that’s Percy Sledge.

Never mind.


16 posted on 09/17/2012 6:23:05 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: NeoCaveman

I swear we are living in an alternative reality. A+++


17 posted on 09/17/2012 6:26:29 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: theDentist; xsmommy
Persiflage or did Obama and Hillary really send a gay ambassador to Libya? Would explain why they sodomized him. Good grief. Tone deaf? Hillbuz says so. ...and is Hill promoting gay events overseas? WTH is going on?
18 posted on 09/17/2012 6:28:41 AM PDT by tioga
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To: xsmommy

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2932241/posts

Someone’s been reading Word for the Day. Billet-doux!


19 posted on 09/17/2012 6:36:26 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy
Here's where the persiflage meets the road. Fergie smacks Lewis down for the brown noser he showed himself to be.
20 posted on 09/17/2012 6:42:22 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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