Posted on 02/11/2014 5:05:35 AM PST by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday February, 11, 2014
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".
smithereens [smith-uh-reenz]
-n, pl
Also, "smithers"
small pieces, bits
[ 1820–30; dial. smithers (< ?) + Hiberno-English -een diminutive suffix (< Irish -ín ) ]
el fregadero [freh-gah-DEHR-oh]
-n
sink
El fregadero estaba lleno de platos sucios.
The sink was full of dirty dishes.
If you can put the sink in the el fregadero (and still get the door to close so the light goes out), you must have smushed it into smithereens first.
Ugh, the pResident is speaking and i couldn’t get the tv changed quickly enough.... his intro to the French Pres fell flat - that speech writer is a goner.
Atlanta’s radios are hyped-up about the (possible) coming ice-strom .. They’ve pre-emptied Rush already, and the 5-minutes news repeats haven’t mentioned the pResident at all.
Glenn Beck did a good skewer of Michelle Antonietta’s outdoors-state-dinner in Washington DC in mid-February. Apparently, they’re going to “drive” the guests from the nearest WH door over to the enclosed plastic-wrapped tables outside. Can’t afford to have anybody walk 200 feet ya know.... Or use the (maybe) INSIDE DINING ROOM that is ALREADY DECORATED and HEATED?
Are they down away UVA?
That’s retarded, sir.
It’s up to us, to understand the decedent......
And their last wishes,
I watched my own father die, in the moment, no issue there.
But I respected my FiL.... And the choice he made to silently bear that burden, though the last 90 days, fell on my wife, to carry him across the goal line.
She gave 3 months.
He gave a multitude of people, wife, adult children, grand children, a good three years,...knowing he was already dead....
That had to be harder than Tarawa.
(Yep, he was mia there)
This was the first thing I thought of-Bill Clinton abusó un fregadero...
The people’s trust in DC
Isn’t worth a can of beans-
Obama and his minions have
Smashed it to smithereens
It certainly wasn’t perfect-
Politics is an open door-
And this mob has pushed it
Just like Nixon did before
Who will play Liddy and Dean
In this latest epic fail-
There’s always a rat or two
Who’ll end up going to jail...
It is 30 here and there is a light mist-rain, not snow or sleet, but there are a few little patches of barely-frozen ice on the deck-it was actually nicer early this morning-colder, but not wet...
Hard to tell what we will get but there’s weather hype here too. Xshub due in from Dallas tomorrow pm and Xsteen has a day trip to NYC for biz and is taking the train up and back. I’d like everyone safely home before it starts. And then we are driving up to the frozen tundra of SU on Friday too, so yeah I’d rather not see a storm just now thanks.
Thick as a Brick.
Today is day 18, tomorrow 19, of days since Jan 1 with a low under 10 degrees.
Y’all can keep the next storm south and east. Yea, Allegheny mountains!
He was elderly and death was expected more or less by then. This man is early 50s. It’s not the instinct of the young to appreciate every minute knowing nothing is promised to us. They will regret forever not having savored every available moment with their father, should he not survive this. The life choices they are making envision a father dying in old age. He is presuming to make those choices for them by depriving them of this knowledge. Life is better lived with no regrets. I think this is a grievous error. I would not do this to my kids regardless of what their father wanted. My friend agrees with me but is respecting his wish.
Not my favorite Jethro Tull stuff...
But “abusó un fregadero” brought it to mind.
Think of the carbon footprint that party will make!!!!! lol
Yes, but he was an elderly man who had lived a long life, not the father of younger children. That is entirely different - they look to their parents as their financial stability, as well as for guidence. As hard as it is to lose a parent at any time in our lives, it is much worse to deal with emotionally when you are still a child. You don’t have a husband to lean on, or children depending on you for their emotional support
The dying man is more likely to forgive. Or at least hold a grudge a lot less longer.
Of course then there is my evil stepmotherinlaw who said it was tougher for her to lose her mother than it was for me to lose my father since she had "known her mother longer"
I’d be happy if ANYONE from this admin went to jail, unfortunately, even as good as your poem is, I don’t think any of them will...... sad
Morbid, but funny SD (sorry XS, nothing funny about this situation)
Lol. Mrs.Hobbes hates Tull,
(Rush...too)
I always tease and say, that’s because it’s rock for smart people like reading Calvin and Hobbes..lol
Another thing she hates...
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