Word For The Day, Monday, 10/28/02

The Verbivores | 10/28/02 | The Teachers!

[RikaStrom]

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. 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....

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substantive \sub-stan-tive\, adjective:
substantively; adverb
substantiveness; noun
substantivize; transitive verb

1. Substantial; considerable.
2. Independent in existence or function; not subordinate.
3. Not imaginary; actual; real
4. Of or relating to the essence or substance; essential: substantive information.
5. Having a solid basis; firm
6. Grammar. Expressing or designating existence; for example, the verb to be
7. Grammar. Designating a noun or noun equivalent
8. A word or group of words functioning as a noun
9. being the essence or essential element of a thing; "substantial equivalents"; "substantive information"
10. Law. Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right; "substantive law"

Strength and magnitude are qualities which impress the imagination in a powerful and substantive manner.
--Hazlitt.

Etymology: Middle English substantif, from Middle French, from substantif, adjective, having or expressing substance, from Late Latin substantives. Date: 14th century

[camle]

I LOVE IT!!! maybe next year when it's time to upgrade...
i've had such bad luck with limos lately, bumps, dents, rollovers, mechanical failures...maybe i'll just buy a yugo and be done with it.

[Slip18]

He'll be lucky to get a honey bucket now for a bathroom, I imagine!

[Slip18]

It's almost time for me to break out the attitude adjustment juice.

Camle, have you got a martooni to spare?

Basketball hoops, Cook?

[camle]

well, i give my people a lot of leeway and trust in their positions until they screw up. THEN my watchful, jaundiced eye is upon them from that point on.

[camle]

all the hootch ya can drink, and plenty of beer inthe vat for naked coquette swimming...

[xsmommy]

never cross a Polack....

the molasses-like consistency of FR is aggravating me no end today.

[camle]

especially one who pays you out of his own pocket.

[xsmommy]

well i suppose i need to start drinking because the piece of chocolate did not help....

[camle]

mayhaps i should have chocolate stocked in the wet bar?
i can have it right next to the cigars...

[Slip18]

If you like chocolate, you could try this drink: creme de cocao, creme de mint and ice cream. It's a delicious shake! It tastes like those little chocolate mint wafers.

[CholeraJoe]

It's snowing pitchforks and blue-haired old ladies up here in Lewis and Clark country. Hope everyone else is warm.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"Basketball hoops, Cook?

OK!

But we'll have to pick sides for the game....

Whatdaya say the coquettes are skins ... and we'll be shirts.

Sound good?

[Argh]

I've always wondered what swan tastes like. (with my luck, it'll taste like chicken...)

There used to be an actual job for people in the Middle Ages called "swan-turner", i.e. the person had to slowly turn the swan over the fire to cook it. Hindemith wrote a piece of program music (the program had to do with medieval minstrels or some such), a concerto for viola and orchestra and named it for this employment, "Der Schwanendreher". Anyway, after learning aboot all that years ago, I've since wondered what nice cooked swan would taste like...

[CholeraJoe]

I was fortunate enough to get a special swan hunting permit this year. If I get one, I'll probably have it mounted rather than eat it. I have had swan stew which tasted like a very gamey beef stew. Waterfowl are generally all dark meat.

[Argh]

Thanks, Doc! Maybe you ought to BBQ the darn thing, if you can find a big enough BBQ device... :^)

[NeoCaveman]

The damn Jets blew a substantive lead to dubyas brownies yesterday...

Thanks for the link to that very substantive article....I enjoyed it thoroughly.

[NeoCaveman]

No substantive lead for Walter "the undead" Mondale.

A Republican tracking poll done over the weekend shows a hypothetical race between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Walter Mondale at 43 percent for Coleman and 45 percent for Mondale. Mondale's name was floated over the weekend, but the Democrats won't name a replacement for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone until Wednesday.

[CholeraJoe]

The Dems are reviving these old has-beens and recycling them.

[NeoCaveman]

The Dems are reviving these old has-beens and recycling them.

New slogans for the Rats....

This is not your father's party, it's your grandfathers.
The Dead voting for the soon to be dead.
Building a bridge to the 19th century.

[xsmommy]

the Dems prefer them just this side of room temp....