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Word For The Day, Friday, August 1, 2003
The Verbivores | 8/1/03 | Teacher

Posted on 08/01/2003 5:27:13 AM PDT by 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. Practice makes perfect.....post on....


carouse \ca*rouse\, verb
carouses, carousing, caroused; intransitive verb
carousal, carouser; noun:

1. To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.
2. To drink excessively
3. To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.

Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. --Denham.
Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. --Young.

Etymology: [German garaus, all out, drink up : gar, completely (from Middle High German, from Old High German garo) + aus, out, up]

Word History: The origin of the word carouse can be found in a German interjection that meant “time to leave the bar.” German garaus, which is derived from the phrase gar (“all”) aus (“out”), meaning “all out,” then came to mean “drink up, bottoms up,” and “a last drink before closing time.” The English borrowed this noun, with the meaning “the practice of sitting around drinking until closing time,” sometimes spelling the word garaus but usually spelling it closer to the way it is spelled today. Soon after the word is first recorded as a noun in 1559, we find the verb carouse, in 1567.


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To: CholeraJoe
Sounds like my lifestyle.
141 posted on 08/01/2003 7:32:05 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Call em "Smoke Gnatzies" Little minds buzzing into your business. Swat em every time.)
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To: Texan5
Yes Tex, very scary.

We kept a loaded weapon in the house because of these problems. Now the only reason I have a loaded weapon is for the possiblity of snakes in the yard!!!!
142 posted on 08/01/2003 7:33:12 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: RikaStrom; Flurry; xsmommy; Argh; maxwell; honeygrl; Texan5
Homework:

Isn't carousal the natural state of a male teenager in the back seat with his date?
143 posted on 08/01/2003 7:34:08 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Laura Earl
yer fer it aint ya
144 posted on 08/01/2003 7:36:58 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Call em "Smoke Gnatzies" Little minds buzzing into your business. Swat em every time.)
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To: All
y'all say happy birthday to Francis Scott Key now.

Also today is the anniversary of the whiskey rebellion.
145 posted on 08/01/2003 7:37:37 AM PDT by camle (dis blondes in MY presence willya?!)
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To: Flurry
uuuuhhhhhhhh...........NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
146 posted on 08/01/2003 7:38:02 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Never wear panties to a party!)
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To: hobbes1; white rose
More recall news. Larry Flynt is running
147 posted on 08/01/2003 7:45:16 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Ohio Chapter. Original White Devil for Sharpton!)
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To: Texan5
I don't believe too much in coincidence either.

My calles to DPD were never laughed at, and always responded to. Also many of the neighbors knew that several of the problem dealers on our street did live in that particular apartment complex.
148 posted on 08/01/2003 7:46:27 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: dubyaismypresident
OH, yea....I have GOT TO SEE his campaign flyers.....lol


(One wonders what his subscription/sales rate is in Cali, and how many of those would be actually willing....lol)
149 posted on 08/01/2003 7:47:35 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: RikaStrom; yall
Mornin' !! Things are cookin' down here in Texas !! (As I'm sure you well know!) . . .

HOT in Dallas today!



150 posted on 08/01/2003 7:48:27 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Dixie Chimps! / Coming Soon !: Freeper site on Comcast. Found the URL. Gotta fix it now.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Isn't carousal a fancy word for merry go round?
151 posted on 08/01/2003 7:49:17 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Call em "Smoke Gnatzies" Little minds buzzing into your business. Swat em every time.)
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To: dubyaismypresident
I just heard about that on the radio. Gosh, this recall is getting more fun by the minute.
152 posted on 08/01/2003 7:52:12 AM PDT by white rose
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To: MeeknMing
How hot is it?
153 posted on 08/01/2003 7:52:22 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Call em "Smoke Gnatzies" Little minds buzzing into your business. Swat em every time.)
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To: camle; xsmommy; Slip18; Cyber Liberty; secret garden; hobbes1
Everybody's different, but try this way.

(So far, it's worked three times with my kids, and a bunch of other kids in the band, girl scouts, and boy scout groups too as other parents have tried it....)

Figure you're going to break the "how to drive" problem into management sets of things they have to learn so well they're automatic - MANY of which HAVE to be MASTERED THOROUGHLY BEFORE you ever put the kid on the road itself.

(Then, AFTER they've really mastered the details of car control and steering and manuevering the car OFF ROAD, then they can get on the road and figure out the "look around and avoid other cars" part of driving.

So ......

First day, drive them to an empty school lot or company parking lot. (Not a commercial parking lot where other people could drive by ...) HAve the kid get behind the wheel (by themself!) and just park it - 15 or twenty times into various slots in various rows. The first 5 or 6 times they park - have them get out and look at how accurate they are.

then have them circle a few times, back up (straight!) at least 150 feet, circle some more in various figure 8's and around light poles and other obstructions they can see. Have them parallel park too - or at least try, if they begin getting a little "too overconfident".

Stop, take a break. Let them take a break too.

Do it all again to reinforce the mechanics of what they've done.

Drive both of you home.

Next day, or a few days later. Do it again, but emphasize backing up straight and (if you have a trailer) moving and parking and backing up and controlling the trailer.... All this still at slow speed, but emphasize accuracy - a 2" "miss" in a parking lot will still thousands of dollars in damage to both cars.

Cover parallel parking the second day also. Have them repeat until they can accurately parallel park - you might need some cones - two barrels, or even yourself as a "fender" of the car they parking behind. (At least you can step back when try to drive over your foot!)

After two or three intervals of "parking lot" practice, the kid will know how to control the car, and will be able to look "out" while on the road. AFTER you're confident of his/her ability to control the car, then have them drive home.

From that first drive on, EVERY TIME you get in the car with the learner for the next year, THEY DRIVE.

By the end of that full year of practice - IF they've driven every time they're in a car, they should be able to get over 15,000 miles of observed driving. Under all conditions (night, day, storms, snow, ice, highway, etc....) and you've seen how the react.

154 posted on 08/01/2003 8:01:53 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Maybe except for the "drunken" part. I don't want to think of a drunken teenager in either front or back seat of a vehicle unless it is parked in the driveway with the keys inside the house. But you can't really have "carousal" without "arousal", but do you also need the "c" to have it take place in a vehicle, rather than in the house or on the lawn? This is getting silly.....
155 posted on 08/01/2003 8:03:19 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: RikaStrom
Are USA core values returning? After eight years of a president who had no real cause or beliefs except to carouse and (so a source tells me) leave his sauce or DNA on Monica Lewinsky, a co user of the Oval Office for purposes that conflict with a core US system of laws and morality. Now, our SEC, a guarantor of shareholder rights, is fighting corporate corruption, and the Ken Lays of the world are learning that a course of action that conflicts with the rules of fair play will lead to a cure so much worse than the disease. No longer will these corporate crooks be able to use CA or TX as their private playground. As the voters of CA sue or demand a recall of crooked politicians, one of our aces, George W. Bush, stands tall and alone, a Crusoe in a world of Fagins.
156 posted on 08/01/2003 8:03:37 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.)
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To: Texan5
Usually, the "see" in carousal happens visually.

Sometimes tactfully though, I'd guess as well, is heart-felt.

(That's not a tasteful thought though .... Some people consider the hole thong a touchy-feelly affair.)
157 posted on 08/01/2003 8:07:30 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
(Loudly aplauding the laudable load of linked homework!)
158 posted on 08/01/2003 8:09:08 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
thanx for the suggestions...

I've taught several people how to drive in my time, in fact, I used to be a motorcycle driving instructor (now THAT'S teaching someone!). I even taught my mother how to drive!

the tyke listens well and does what she is told. she is a good kid. she ought to survive.
159 posted on 08/01/2003 8:09:08 AM PDT by camle (dis blondes in MY presence willya?!)
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To: Flurry
How hot is it?

It's 86 degrees now, and heading for around 100 today.


Click for Dallas, Texas Forecast



Typical August forecast for here :



Friday

Hi 100
Lo 78

Partly Cloudy
Saturday

Hi 98
Lo 78

Isolated T-Storm
Sunday

Hi 98
Lo 79

Isolated T-Storm
Monday

Hi 99
Lo 79

Partly Cloudy
Tuesday

Hi 100
Lo 80

Partly Cloudy

160 posted on 08/01/2003 8:11:50 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Dixie Chimps! / Coming Soon !: Freeper site on Comcast. Found the URL. Gotta fix it now.)
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