;Posted on 07/01/2013 5:22:10 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 7/1/13
;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".
simulacrum; noun
. a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance. 2. an effigy, image, or representation: a simulacrum of Aphrodite.
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oooh no! that’s bad! A+++
excellent!! A++++
great juxtapositioning of opposites! A++++
xshub had his cut off in the ER when he broke his hand punching the glass when xsboy was checked from behind and concussed and no penalty called. they had joint visits to the ER, it was the day before mothers day that year and i was picking xsbaby up from a bday party and had the delightful news that both of my menfolk were in the ER. We just recently took his ring to the jeweler to be re-soldered. They had cut it into three pieces getting it off. His knuckle had pretty much grown too big to ever get it off, even if his hand had not swelled.
This was my niece not my daughter. Were it my daughter, i would insist that she move to a safer area!
It’s loose enough that I could take it off. My dad’s was so tight he eventually had to get his cut off. I didn’t want that, so made sure I could remove mine.
I’m wearing a ring that was my dad’s now.
I knew that. Sorry, it was a slip of the keyboard. I was thinking niece and typing daughter. My fingers do that sometimes. LOL.
I guess I was thinking of my own daughter when she lived in an apartment in Houston (alone)and teaching in the Houston schools in a bad area. She had about 3 locks on her door, plus a burglar alarm. We’d moved to WA State by that time, and I was plenty worried. They did find a body in a dumpster at the adjacent apartment complex, and it never made the papers.
One of the myths about “gated communities” is that they are always safer.
I remember a case in Houston where a couple was mugged in their own garage. The thief had snuck in earlier (evading detection by the guards at the gate) and had hidden in the dark near their garage. They opened their garage door with the remote, and the mugger/thief slipped in at the same time as they drove in. They shut the garage door and were at the mercy of the mugger/thief who surprised them and robbed them after pistol whipping them.
Another case that I remember happened to a couple who lived in a very nice area of Houston (Memorial, as I remember) and had a valuable gun collection and a complete burglar alarm system with every window and door protected. Thieves actually made a hole in the brick wall of their bedroom. Brick used in TX is often from Mexico and is softer than northestern kiln fired brick. The thieves just tunneled through the wall, evading the burglar alarms, and stole the whole collection. These folks were friends of my best friend, so I know the story was true.
Well done RE the “multitasking” ++
Then again, I had friends in Memorial who were never robbed and there was very little crime in The Woodlands, north of town where my father lived. It is unsettling when it happens nearby, that’s for sure.
She might need a small yappy dog.
Although Obama may be a simulacrum of Socialist strongmen of the past, his “vision” offers a similar crummy future for America...,
she’s more likely to get a gun, she had been thinking of it anyway. i am not sure the apt permits pets.
And we had no problems in Quail Valley, although others did. When I was doing the crime report, I was shocked at what was going on that the average person did not know. That is what put our little paper on the map.
I remember being shocked to discover that we had a serial rapist going from house to house along the golf course. He was spotted, jogging away from one encounter in “green” running clothes. My son who was a member of his high school cross country team had lots of green jogging clothes because his school colors were green and white. I warned him to NEVER wear his team running clothes or team shoes when jogging within QV because he might be stopped by the police.
But, most of the crimes in QV were by disaffected teenagers who were trying to support a drug habit. They would enter houses from the golf course side when the owners were out shopping. A lot of people did not lock their houses in those days, and the kids knew it. On Mondays, when the course was closed, the kids could pretty much move from house to house without being detected.
Memorial was not immune. When the Hunt brothers were trying to capture the silver market 1970s, thieves were operating in Memorial, Tanglewood, and other wealthy enclaves. I remember one account where they would enter a house and grab all of the sterling, leaving the plate behind. These thieves actually had a smelter in their car/truck and the silver would be melted down before they left the block. That case WAS covered by the newspaper because it was so exotic. Priceless antique silver piecces were lost in that caper.
simulacrum
After several breakfast bourbons the fellas at the garage decided this simulacrum was just a late night t.v. commercial for some kind of stimulating cream. The what and the how of the stimulating they weren’t certain.
Myself, I think it means similar to crud but that’s pretty much what the guys were saying.
Boy did Kristol/Obama/McCain get this one wrong. Heck, they get them all wrong.
yeah strongman and obama in his mom jeans don’t go together A +++
Wasn't he pretty? He lost his home because of a foreclosure, one of the little mentioned results of this crummy economy.
A+++ simulated crud?
yeah just got my morning Jolt, Geraghty was on about it. A+++
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