;Posted on 10/21/2013 5:59:05 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 10/21/13
;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".
procrustean; adj.
adjective 1. pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes. 2. ( often lowercase ) tending to produce conformity by violent or arbitrary means.
Etymology: 1846 in figurative sense of "aiming to produce conformity by arbitrary means," from Procrustes (1583), mythical robber of Attica who seized travelers, tied them to his bed, and either stretched their limbs or lopped of their legs to make them fit it. The name is Gk. Prokroustes "one who stretches," from
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To be fair, it is Pumpkin season.
Maybe she has a tramp stamp that says, “Peter,Peter”
chilly here today and still they are fainting for that jackass. anyone who read the left behind series, (i am looking at you, whyisa) will recall the fainting and stuff at the antichrist rallies.
I don’t understand how she can have such a wide ass and thunder thighs when the rest of her doesn’t match...
excellent, A++++
it’s an unfortunate pear shape. some women get stuck with that, unfortunately. my SIL is a bit that way.
Glad I’m not the only one who thought about the antichrist thing...
On Saturday, it was like a ghost town here-I was one of only two customers in the general store-the owner was working the checkout, and when I remarked on the eerie quiet, she said she expected to look around and find herself looking at empty vehicles, empty store, and clothes flapping in the breeze at the deserted flea market across the road, just like in Left Behind. I thought about that all the way home, and it gave me the creeps...
Thank you! I wish some enterprising journalist would offer one of those faux fainters something they want-like real money and a TV appearance-to tell what they were paid and by whom to fake a faint in public...
Bullet in the knee works much more quickly.
that series has definitely stayed with me as far as picturing the end. my Sat was spent in a series of bridal stores, no one was raptured up out of them bc it was full and busy. by and large our experience has been a good one. we did have one b!tchwoman from H@!! on Saturday, which made for a good story. It was a snooty place, but we can handle the snooty. this woman insisted on telling xsteen [who will turn 25 on Friday!] that she would never find what she wanted [a wedding dress with long sleeves] when we have been to enough places to know that if a dress has any sort of sleeve at all they can put a long sleeve on it for you. xsteen wants a sweetheart neckline with lace overlay. B!tchwoman says, do you have boobs? i can’t tell with what you are wearing but given how small you are i’m guessing not— well the flatchested would be better served with a v neck, yada yada. then when it became clear that they really didn’t have anything that she liked regardless of price [she asked up front what our budget was, i said we didn’t have one, since she has not been able to find anything that she wants] she said, what about bridesmaid dresses? are you as picky about those as your gown? I am not making any of this up, these are verbatim quotes. We came home and as i was relating it to xshub, we went on Yelp and started looking for reviews and this place was universally listed as the WORST place to go, bc they are rude, nasty etc. The woman that waited on us was the owner’s daughter. I honestly don’t know how they stay in biz with that attitude. it was so far and away diff than anywhere else we went. All three of these salons were in Old Town Alexandria. the last place had something she really liked and the ladies were extremely nice and can alter it to add long sleeves.
The Spanish Inquisition dragged on in a Procrustean fashion.
NOBODY EXPECTS THE.....
Oh, Bugger.
you rang? ; ) A+++
I’m sure it does, but it isn’t nice to hurt stupid people-they are free-will challenged...
Well, meow! What a conversation coming from a salesperson at a bridal shop, of all places, where bridezillas are the customers-and what is with the aversion to long sleeves the woman had? I guess they don’t appreciate the business they have-sounds like they deserve the bad reviews...
The cub’s first dress had tight, long lace sleeves-it was a cost-a-month’s pay confection of stiff lace with tight-fitting satin underneath, sweetheart neckline-the cub has huge boobs-flared from the knees to the floor in gathers, and so encrusted with faux pearls, crystal beads and crap all the way from the neck to the floor that is stood by itself. Bought at the Hispanic bridal place...
She itched through the entire Mass, and halfway through the reception, changed into the going-away dress. The second time around, she bought satin and trim, and had a very pretty softer dress in a sort of Cinderella style without that overdone bling made-but she did have that bridezilla moment in the fabric shop when the store next door caught on fire.
It’s called, deepening the gene pool ;-)
It is already deep enough-just leave it...
If the gene pool wasn’t too shallow, we wouldn’t have low information voters ;-)
The low info crowd is perfectly happy with inbreeding-and I don’t know anyone interested in mating with them who isn’t their kin. The 1st husband used to say some very mean things about those people-but he was right, so leave the damn pool alone...
I guess if her boobs went from her knees to the floor, they are kinda huge!
The dress was flared, not boobs-my sentence structure wasn’t THAT bad...
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