;Posted on 11/04/2013 5:11:36 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 11/4/13
;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".
phatic; adj.
Origin: 1923; probably < Greek phat ( ós ) spoken, capable of being spoken (verbid of phánai to speak; cf. prophet) + -ic; coined (in phrase phatic communion ) by Bronislaw Malinowski
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
No pushing at the door please!
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
I guess you weren’t emphatic enough. ;-)
No, but for some reason she doesn’t like Cuccinelli. I think she’s changed her mind since she said that, but I’ve learned over the years not to press her with politics. Unfortunately, she’s a music teached and hangs out with all the artistic and education types and can be heavily influenced by them. Her husband, who is a fine fellow otherwise, isn’t even a registered voter. We no longer even discuss it. He thinks his vote doesn’t matter anyway and he doesn’t want to be perceived as enabling either side.
Hopefully, by this time, she’s learned enough about Cuccinelli (and the odious McCauliffe) that she feels comfortable voting for Cooch. Cantor is her Rep., and she likes him. She’s totally involved with her classrooms, her church, the arts, and her kids — not in that order.
Here’s hoping that the voters in VA will gather their wits to save themselves from total disaster...
Now that the drive-by media
Has become somewhat phatic
On Obamacare’s failed debut
They seem even more erratic
But upon closer inspection
Perhaps that is too kind
A term for media lemmings
Losing their collective mind
Schizophrenic is a better fit-
As in one sentence they deride
Obamacare’s useless website, but
Still kiss his feet with pride...
Cooch is being portrayed as ANTI-woman, that he wants to strip birth control out of their hands etc. etc. it is TOTALLY ridiculous what they are saying about him. and if women are soooo @#$%ing stupid that they are going to vote based on their vaginas then i wash my hands of the entire lot of them. i don’t like women much PERIOD, they generally P@$$ me off!
and both McAuliffe and Cuccinelli are ostensibly catholic. Of course, you guess which one is REALLY catholic, attends church etc. and which one just mouths the platitude that he is catholic but never darkens the door of a church and doesn’t follow a single one of its precepts. I am pretty sure that some if not all of the Cuccinelli children are homeschooled.
A+++ excellent!
Thank you!
You women, always talking about vaginas and periods. ;-)
@$$ !
It is 63 and drizzling off and on, and there is no work. Watching news is out of the question, because if I hear one more Obamaite guest on Fox say that he “misspoke”, I may run out into the road shrieking-he lied-the word is “lied”-they need to learn to say it, damnit-good thing I took out a favorite book to read...
"Tooo phat--ick!"
you are not maligning W’s dog Barney by calling BO by his name are ya??? A+++
xsteen went to the Geo W Bush library in Dallas last weekend and there is a statue of Barney and Miz Beasley there.
Well, for a guy, it is a smart way to organize your dating Schedule.
Nice to know there is an alternative option...
ridiculous!
That kind of thing happens all the time, but it’s another data mismatch that should have been picked up in end 2 end testing.
In the real world, for financial transactions, companies get their feet held to the fire overt the 5 day statutory limit.
So, had this happened, and his transaction was not confirmed correctly, the company would be tallying numbers of missent notices, so the SEC could start ringing the cash register.
To quote the famous American Politician
This would be, a “ big fu@@ing deal”
I hope every wide-eyed innocent out there who just can’t understand why many of us won’t give over control of our info-and persons-to anyone, reads and understands what is being shown there-before they apply at the site and some hacker buys a condo in Belize using their info...
Oooo, Beliiiiize...I would love to go there.
Be careful. You don’t want Walter White to send you to Belize.
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