Posted on 03/03/2014 4:30:57 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, March 3, 2014 – salvo
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".
salvo; noun •
Etymology:
1. a. a simultaneous discharge of two or more guns in military action or as a salute b : the release all at one time of a rack of bombs or rockets (as from an airplane) c : a series of shots by an artillery battery with each gun firing one round in turn after a prescribed interval d : the bombs or projectiles released in a salvo 2 : something suggestive of a salvo: as a : a sudden burst b : a spirited attack •
1635–45; < Latin salvō, ablative of salvus safe, found in legal phrases The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Too bad they are not members of WFTD!
Got it.
similar to the extent they are both fried dough.
seem very similar, though the Italian ones seem a bit lighter and airy-er
sounds nightmarishly bad.
I thought Steve McQueen was dead.
Ludlow, Massachusetts, next town over from where I grew up. Chicopee and Holyoke are close by, too. Right outside of Springfield. There were a bunch of mills in the area around the time they were emigrating.
LOL@! so did i! i know paul newman is gone, maybe that’s who we were thinking of?
The white Steve McQueen is dead, not the black one.
It’s a different guy, apparently. A lot blacker than the old one.
I thought Hollywood had this name thing sorted out. The new guy should have to be “Steve J McQueen” or something like that.
I guess that rule only applies to actors.
never heard of the black one.
Me, neither, till now. SNL did a skit Saturday about him doing casting for the “evil white slaveowner” parts and how awkward it would be to get people to read those nasty lines for an audition.
there were lots of bad white people in Django Unchained too.
Don’t tell me you watched that one?
I bought a bootleg copy in Trinidad from a guy who sets up a table across the road from the police station and threw it in my bag.
Several months later, I tried to watch it but it was all messed up and wouldn’t read.
So, I’m out like $1.
I would feel cheated, but my wife was able to use it as a pecking toy “shiny object” for the baby chickens.
we went to see it on Christmas day last year. xsteen had seen and liked the inglorious bastards and wanted to see it. it was not good, to say the least.
about right.
Inglorious Basterds was a great film.
We’ve got us a German here who wants to die for his country.
Oblige him!
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