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Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 24, 2012-- Pyrrhic

Posted on 10/24/2012 5:28:00 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree

Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 24, 2012-- Pyrrhic

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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".

Pyrrhic [pir-ik] First syllable has short “i” sound, as in “pyramid,” NOT funeral “pyre.”

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adjective
of, pertaining to, or resembling Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, or his costly victory.

Word Origin & History

Pyrrhic 1885, from Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, who defeated Roman armies at Asculum, 280 B.C.E., but at such cost to his own troops that he was unable to follow up and attack Rome itself, and is said to have remarked, "one more such victory and we are lost."

Related forms
Pyrrhus -noun (ˈpɪrəs)

1. 319--272 bc , king of Epirus (306--272). He invaded Italy but was ultimately defeated by the Romans (275 bc )
2. another name for Neoptolemus


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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Pyrrhic

This is either about history or stuff that already happened. Anyway Pyrrhic had a son called Custard, Custard Pyrrhic, who fought the Sue at a little big house and lost.

So just remember when you get on your high horse like General Custard Pyrrhic, you may get your punkin carved. Or something.

41 posted on 10/24/2012 8:21:22 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: VRWCmember

A+++
Love anagrams.


42 posted on 10/24/2012 8:25:48 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Benghazi murders due to spontaneous riot over a video. Or terrorism. Depends on the day.)
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To: count-your-change

A++
Whatever you’re drinking, I want some.


43 posted on 10/24/2012 8:27:34 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Benghazi murders due to spontaneous riot over a video. Or terrorism. Depends on the day.)
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To: count-your-change

Custard’s Last Stand was really selling frozen yogurt?


44 posted on 10/24/2012 8:28:41 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Benghazi murders due to spontaneous riot over a video. Or terrorism. Depends on the day.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

d Watching Hillary speak (Hillaryspeak?), I noticed that her body language seemed nervous-balled fists, restless hands close to her body, darting eyes, etc-she is the suicidal sacrifice-you can almost smell the flopsweat...

If the current debacle in Libya
Is an example of Obama’s bunch
Toying with consulate protection
Then they are all out to lunch

Americans dead, a building torched
But a video will get the blame
We’re tired of the Pyrrhic victories-
Hillary, thank you just the same

It looks like Hillary is going down
Without the power Bill gave her-
And like Haldeman in Nixon’s reign
There’s no one left to save her


45 posted on 10/24/2012 9:09:05 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

d Watching Hillary speak (Hillaryspeak?), I noticed that her body language seemed nervous-balled fists, restless hands close to her body, darting eyes, etc-she is the suicidal sacrifice-you can almost smell the flopsweat...

If the current debacle in Libya
Is an example of Obama’s bunch
Toying with consulate protection
Then they are all out to lunch

Americans dead, a building torched
But a video will get the blame
We’re tired of the Pyrrhic victories-
Hillary, thank you just the same

It looks like Hillary is going down
Without the power Bill gave her-
And like Haldeman in Nixon’s reign
There’s no one left to save her


46 posted on 10/24/2012 9:09:53 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

d Watching Hillary speak (Hillaryspeak?), I noticed that her body language seemed nervous-balled fists, restless hands close to her body, darting eyes, etc-she is the suicidal sacrifice-you can almost smell the flopsweat...

If the current debacle in Libya
Is an example of Obama’s bunch
Toying with consulate protection
Then they are all out to lunch

Americans dead, a building torched
But a video will get the blame
We’re tired of the Pyrrhic victories-
Hillary, thank you just the same

It looks like Hillary is going down
Without the power Bill gave her-
And like Haldeman in Nixon’s reign
There’s no one left to save her


47 posted on 10/24/2012 9:10:32 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

A+++
Nice poem. You’re forgiven for the triple post—FreeRepublic has been acting up. I could barely get on in the last few minutes. I switched browsers from Internet Explorer to Mozilla, and it seemed to work much better.


48 posted on 10/24/2012 9:35:19 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Benghazi murders due to spontaneous riot over a video. Or terrorism. Depends on the day.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Watching Hillary speak (Hillaryspeak?), I noticed that her body language seemed nervous-balled fists, restless hands close to her body, darting eyes, etc-she is the suicidal sacrifice, and you can almost smell the flopsweat...

If the current debacle in Libya
Is an example of Obama’s bunch
Toying with consulate protection
Then they are all out to lunch

Americans dead, a building torched
And a video will get the blame
We’re tired of the Pyrrhic victories-
Hillary, thank you just the same

It looks like Hillary is going down
Without the power Bill gave her-
And like Haldeman in Nixon’s reign
There’s no one left to save her


49 posted on 10/24/2012 9:46:50 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

That’s good to hear. I heard her in the car so had no visuals and she sounded almost offhand and cavalier in the way she spoke of the attack.


50 posted on 10/24/2012 9:50:47 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Thank you!

Sorry-the thing just keeps showing up again without even hitting “post”-I’ll try switching to Mozilla, but there are major gremlins here, and have been for some time...


51 posted on 10/24/2012 9:53:07 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I'll take even a Pyrrhic victory if it means we no longer have Mr. Soak-the-Rich prying into our lives...
52 posted on 10/24/2012 10:03:46 AM PDT by mikrofon (Obama is a Statue of Limitations)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Nawwww...It was the boyts against the gurts and the boyts said, “Yo gurt! Yo! Yo! Can’t keep me ona string like that.”

And Old Mellow Yellow ended up with egg in his face (it was egg custard).

More Hysterical History.


53 posted on 10/24/2012 10:07:34 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: xsmommy

I’ll give Hillary credit for trying to be offhand and dismissive, but her hands, face, and stance said nothing to see here, folks-just move along...


54 posted on 10/24/2012 10:30:39 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: onyx

Karo kangaroo?


55 posted on 10/24/2012 10:59:01 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: secret garden; xsmommy

I saw something scroll by on the news thingee on my homepage screen that said sunscreen recalled when users were lit on fire, or some such-it made me laugh because I’m sure some not-very-smart move was involved. The label of my tanning oil says keep away from open flame...


56 posted on 10/24/2012 1:16:11 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5; NeoCaveman; SoothingDave
Jim MORON's son lives up to the family name....
57 posted on 10/24/2012 1:28:30 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Best and Brightest
Just living in the White House and studying with Saul Alinsky, hater of America, did not qualify Hillary to run for president or be appointed to any federal job.

She just announced the other day that ANYBODY can become a diplomat (thanks to electronic media) just hit SEND!

58 posted on 10/24/2012 1:40:41 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: xsmommy

Oh, my God-that is dumber than dumb-do you suppose he will get fined? Go to jail? He should...


59 posted on 10/24/2012 2:02:07 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: xsmommy

you KNOW he learned this at his daddy’s knee.


60 posted on 10/24/2012 2:07:29 PM PDT by tioga (Obama 1st term brought to you by the letter O and the # 16tril. Will not be renewed.)
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