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Word For The Day, Wednesday, June 12, 2013-- billingsgate

Posted on 06/12/2013 4:40:09 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree

Word For The Day, Wednesday, June 12, 2013-- billingsgate

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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".

billingsgate [bil-ingz-geyt]

hear it pronounced

noun

coarsely or vulgarly abusive language.

Origin: 1645–55; orig. the kind of speech often heard at Billingsgate, a London fish market at the gate of the same name

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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To: Buckeye McFrog

A++
And, she speaks jive.


21 posted on 06/12/2013 6:51:56 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I’m going to get my teeth cleaned. Anyone who needs me, just check in with the NSA. They probably know which of my teeth has too much plaque.


22 posted on 06/12/2013 7:00:35 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Stealing glib taglines (e.g. about the Gangliest Lib in the W/H) and trying to take stage billing for it can gain you a Billingsgate or two from fellow FR members...
23 posted on 06/12/2013 8:23:12 AM PDT by mikrofon (Anagrammers can turn Genitals into Taglines.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Lots of billingsgate heard in hockey GM offices today since Pitt unbelievably resigned their coach for 2 more years. It looks like a big mistake but their GM was trained by the best.


24 posted on 06/12/2013 8:36:22 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

We postponed our appts for that last week because we just did not want to go through it. And because of the sequester...our budget was impacted and I couldn’t justify the expense.


25 posted on 06/12/2013 8:39:30 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: mikrofon

A+++
Outstanding! Loved the tagline as well.


26 posted on 06/12/2013 9:29:52 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Does anyone happen to have 4 1-inch carriage bolts? I need them for the truck plates and can’t find any-what passed for a hardware store out here closed last year, and I don’t keep/use bolts like that...

It seems that I am tempted
More than usual these days
To use more billingsgate
To address the dishonest ways

Of the IRS, the NSA,
The list goes on-and so-
Even some leftist loons
Say the emperor should go

The scandals and cover-ups
Have a faintly familiar smell-
I guess next someone will break
Into a Washington hotel...


27 posted on 06/12/2013 9:41:08 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 job.


28 posted on 06/12/2013 9:42:28 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: secret garden

It’s not that unbelievable.


29 posted on 06/12/2013 9:55:35 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Thank you!


30 posted on 06/12/2013 10:43:43 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

This is no billingsgate, but one of the wild turkeys that live on this land just came wandering by my picture window with a flock of tiny chicks trailing behind. It was so cute to watch her syncopated stroll, pausing for the babies to catch up.

I doubt that these chicks are more than a day old. You can barely see them in the grass. There are probably a dozen and their prescence is revealed by the grass moving. So, I won’t be mowing out there for a while, after my disaster with the fawn last week.

And I hope that the big, fat coyote I saw out there last week stays far away.


31 posted on 06/12/2013 11:59:19 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Obama's insurance policy against impeachment, Joe Biden, prompted a billingsgate from me with this headline on Drudge: Joe Biden: Supreme Court was wrong -- Gore won the election
32 posted on 06/12/2013 12:07:55 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Texan5
Home Depot is my go-to, even online.
33 posted on 06/12/2013 1:57:35 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave

When you consider the team keeps a liability like Matt Cooke, you’re right.


34 posted on 06/12/2013 1:59:01 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

You musn’t have seen him play the past two years.


35 posted on 06/12/2013 2:18:40 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: afraidfortherepublic

A++
Joe Biden is Obama’s impeachment protection.


36 posted on 06/12/2013 2:19:14 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: secret garden

I sometimes go to Home Depot online and make sure they have what I need before I drive the 22 miles to the nearest town that has one.

I wasn’t going to drive the 22 miles, because I just needed those 4 bolts for the license and frame on the truck. Fortunately, I could hear my neighbor’s diesel nearby-he was wiring a livestock shed on the next hill, so I walked up there. He said he has some of those bolts in his shop, and he’ll bring me a few as soon as he is done working for the day.


37 posted on 06/12/2013 2:48:52 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: SoothingDave

Eric Karlsson didn’t see him in February of this year.


38 posted on 06/12/2013 3:10:22 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

Leave it to a cat to invent a new way to torment while feigning innocent play-Titus was washing Midget girl’s face, which was nice enough-except that he was holding her on the floor with both paws around her neck while he did-so tightly that she couldn’t move. She finally got tired of it, snarled, broke loose and smacked him. Titus gave me an innocent, wide eyed look and went over to his bowl to eat...


39 posted on 06/12/2013 3:32:58 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: secret garden

It’s foolish to think such a thing was deliberate. Do you honestly think the league would fail to punish him, of all people, if he had done it on purpose.?


40 posted on 06/12/2013 4:18:19 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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