;Posted on 02/06/2013 4:57:57 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, February 6, 2013-- omphalos
;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".
omphalos [om-fuh-luh s]
noun
1. (in the ancient world) a sacred conical object, especially a stone. The most famous omphalos at Delphi was assumed to mark the center of the earth
2. the central point
3. Literary: another word for navel
Origin: "sacred stone," 1850, from Gk., lit. "navel," also "hub" (as the center point), from PIE *ombh-alo-, from base *nobh-/*ombh- "navel" (see navel). The name of the rounded stone in the shrine at Delphi, regarded by the ancients as the center of the world.
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.
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
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Imam says breasts are only unclean for a couple of days each month.
I think that’s a polite way of saying, “Man..that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of!!!”. But just you wait...We can cleave even clevererer.
It is 60, gray with light rain off and on-just wet enough to make my favorite rock trail slick and risky-and cut short my hike...
Obama’s minions can’t decide
What the omphalos should be
On his wish list of committing
Even further highway robbery
Making citizens out of illegals?
Financially mugging the “rich”?
Should he listen to Joe or not-
For a king, life can be a bitch
Another nice vacation to Hawaii
On the taxpayers’ dwindling dime?
So many ways to confiscate wealth-
There’ll never be enough time...
I always worry about hygiene whenever we get a new female employee and we all have to suckle her. You know. So it’s not weird around the office.
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We might be rid of Obama in 4 more years.
Thank you!
He may be looking for work sooner-he appears to have contracted Nixon syndrome-the symptoms can be ignored for awhile, but when it goes full-blown, there is no cure...
you are such a dork, i nearly spit a mouthful of salad across the room when i read that!
I dropped 1/2 a grapefruit on my lap-you are creating a lunch disaster with that post...
O-mphalos
Lunch aside, you understand the reference.
Isn’t that considered sexist or some such thing now?
I’m never all that likely to understand a reference, where’s it from?
Thanks! Another favorite of mine listed there is “Sweet Melissa”, from a very happy time.
But in my usual contrary manner, what is now stuck in my head is “Brandi, you’re a fine girl, what a good wife you would be”...
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Exactly!
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You’re a bit late on the Oompa-Loompas.
One of those crazy Imam rulings. Since it is forbidden for unrelated women and men to work together, a man could become “family” by a ceremonial breastfeeding.
Ok now I recall. Was pretty sure the dude had not said it.
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