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Word for the Day, Tuesday May 21, 2013

Posted on 05/21/2013 6:33:38 AM PDT by SoothingDave

Word For The Day, May 21, 2013



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".

boffin [bof-in]

-n
British slang a scientist or technical expert.

[1940–45; origin uncertain ]


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To: secret garden

i can see that he would be more romantic than you : ) i am not really a romantic and i thank the Lord that xshub isn’t either. i have to say i just don’t LIKE love songs. But i like the best friend song, that’s not sappy. Sappy makes me uncomfortable, i am not sure why, but i just don’t like it.


21 posted on 05/21/2013 7:08:20 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

i can’t in a zillion years imagine doing anything like that in front of my kids. kids do not need to know that their parents have sex, IMO! i recall when the wife of one of my colleagues was expecting a bit later in life, when his older kids were in HS, and him telling me how awkward it was for them bc it was proof postive that they were having sex.


22 posted on 05/21/2013 7:11:38 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

please please please say you dress in colonial outfits for the duration of the trip, like chicks at the Renaissance Faire


23 posted on 05/21/2013 7:12:13 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

and don’t even get me started on how i hate BALLADs.... eg;wreck of edmund fitzgerald, BeeGees Mining disaster, harry chapin’s cats in the cradle etc. HATE EM!


24 posted on 05/21/2013 7:13:24 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden; SoothingDave
Both good choices but this is better
25 posted on 05/21/2013 7:14:56 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

there is a pic in existence of xshub and i BOTH dressed in colonial garb from when xsboy was in 4th grade, bc that was COLONIAL DAY at St James. Parents staffed that event complete with colonial dancing, butter churning, paper making etc. i loved that event! i was chairperson each year my kids were in 4th grade.


26 posted on 05/21/2013 7:16:58 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Cats in the Cradle is just too sad of a song.


27 posted on 05/21/2013 7:20:23 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: xsmommy
You have to be leery of this
28 posted on 05/21/2013 7:20:35 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: xsmommy

Somehow I just knew you’d be hating on the music in today’s class room....


29 posted on 05/21/2013 7:21:20 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: NeoCaveman
i guess if i think about it, i just don't like WHITE ballads, bc i still love this, which was our wedding song. so,i do like black ballads. And they aren't singing about sinking ships, dying miners, etc. It's another reason i can't stand country music, i can't stand BAWLING over songs.
30 posted on 05/21/2013 7:23:52 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: NeoCaveman

i’d posit that i am part black, but since all four grandparents hopped off the boat from eastern europe, that really can’t be the case.


31 posted on 05/21/2013 7:25:04 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

xsbaby sauntered in once when she was six, but, blessedly, she does not remember.


32 posted on 05/21/2013 7:26:18 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
another fave of mine.
33 posted on 05/21/2013 7:29:16 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Bc it’s R&B i like that too : )


34 posted on 05/21/2013 7:30:50 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

You’re definitely not Irish then. All our songs are sad. Ghosts of dead girls hawking seafood through the streets, people getting married the day before the man is put to death for being a revolutionary, pining for lost loves who went across the ocean.


35 posted on 05/21/2013 7:37:47 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

nope, not a drunken sot, oops, i mean irish ; ) JUST KIDDING!


36 posted on 05/21/2013 7:39:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

OK, some of the songs are boisterous. ;-)


37 posted on 05/21/2013 7:40:32 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
people getting married the day before the man is put to death for being a revolutionary,

Damn Limeys. (/pours another shot of whiskey)

38 posted on 05/21/2013 7:41:43 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: SoothingDave

Aw, come on, what about titles like “Dulaman”, “Whiskey in the Jar”, “The Ballad of Charlie Mopps”, and “Johnny Tarr”?


39 posted on 05/21/2013 7:42:43 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: xsmommy

wow - I rolled my eyes when I saw the title; but after actually listening, I gotta say that is good


40 posted on 05/21/2013 7:45:01 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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