Posted on 04/06/2018 7:12:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
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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".
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vicissitude
noun 1. a change or variation occurring in the course of something. 2. interchange or alternation, as of states or things. 3. vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years. 4. regular change or succession of one state or thing to another. 5. change; mutation; mutability.
vi·cis·si·tude vəˈsisəˌt(y)o͞od/ noun plural noun: vicissitudes
a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant. "her husband's sharp vicissitudes of fortune" synonyms: change, alteration, shift, reversal, twist, turn, downturn, variation; More inconstancy, instability, uncertainty, chanciness, unpredictability, fickleness, variability, changeability, fluctuation, vacillation; ups and downs "the vicissitude of our love" literary alternation between opposite or contrasting things. "the vicissitude of the seasons"
Origin early 17th century (in the sense ‘alternation’): from French, or from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim ‘by turns,’ from vic- ‘turn, change.’ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The sentence must, in someway, relate to the news of the day.
Class is in Session’s Office!....................Don’t make any noise or you might wake him...............
I wish you’d choose “niggardly” at least once, to get the leftists riled up.
or ‘niggling’................
Years ago Woody Allen actually wrote some funny material. My favorite was the chess-by-mail fiasco known as The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers. Here’s a short excerpt:
Gossage:
‘The announcement of checkmate which you made in this morning’s mail is, I fear, in all fairness, a false alarm, and if you will reëxamine the positions in light of today’s discovery, you will find that it is your king that lies close to mate, exposed and undefended, an immobile target for my predatory bishops. Ironic, the vicissitudes of miniature war! Fate, in the guise of the dead-letter office, waxes omnipotent and voilà! the worm turns.’
http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/f03-cse471-mailarchive/msg00081.html
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I wonder if the movie “Chappaquiddick” has kept up with the vicissitudes of the Democrat Party over the last 49 years.
“The vicissitude of the seasons” & natural variability of the weather are ignored by the vicious AGW crowd, who try to impose their vile “science” upon the rest of us…
What was once called ‘weather’ we now call ‘climate change’........................A+++!.............
Or the Kennedys................A+++!................
Why??? Just say ‘change’...It’s easier to say, and spell...
Visigoths had really bad vicissitudes!
Vicissitude... hmm? It is like the line “Vic is sitting dude!!!!!” crunched together and spoken with slurred speech by someone with an Eastern European accent running for his life from a cafe table that has Victor and Putin sitting together sharing a morning coffee.
I love it!
The ability to describe in detail the absurdity of chess through correspondence is wonderfully ironic and veers from typical Allen, agonizing over the vicissitudes of normal life.
:)
It is 70 here now, but a late cold front is due to arrive tonight-global warming strikes again...
Hillary’s numerous vicissitudes
Ran through all of her campaign
Shape-shifting her personality
At the sign of the smallest gain
Lately in strange-looking clothing
On vacation in India she shares
Her views on how sexist men are-
Before she falls down some stairs
But the one theme in her tirades
That stays predictably the same
Is she was denied her coronation
And she doesn’t own any blame...
Wonderful!.......As always!.............A++++!....................
Thank you!
I hope she never shuts up and stays out there and “helps” with every democrat’s campaign in the mid-terms...
I look forward to the day when there are no more
KKKlintons in political circles anywhere................
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Drove to Key West once with St Ronnie.
We enjoyed our short visitudes in that Buffet’s area of longitudes and latitudes and relaxed attitudes.
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