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Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 12, 2003
The Verbivores
| 8/12/03
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Posted on 08/12/2003 5:23:18 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....
attenuate \at*ten*u*ate\, verb; adjective
attenuating, attenuates, attenuated; intransitive verb
attenuation; noun
1. To make slender, fine, or small: The drought attenuated the river to a narrow channel.
2. To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken: Medicine attentuated the fever's effect.
3. To lessen the density of; rarefy.
4. Biology: To make (bacteria or viruses) less virulent.
5. Electronics.: To reduce (the amplitude of an electrical signal) with little or no distortion.
6. To become thin, weak, or fine.
7. Reduced or weakened, as in strength, value, or virulence.
8. Botany: Gradually tapering to a slender point.
We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. --Sir F. Palgrave
Etymology: [Latin attenu re, attenu t- : ad-, ad- + tenu re, to make thin (from tenuis, thin. See ten- in Indo-European Roots).]
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To: Flurry
Morning Flurry!
To: RikaStrom
I watched a drunk eating a salad one night. He complained that the lettuce was too chewy and complained to the waitess. He pulled a piece of the offending lettuce out of his mouth and waving it said, see. The waitress said sir that isn't lettuce it's money and it appears that it's attenuate.
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posted on
08/12/2003 5:29:57 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: xsmommy
Ahhh, maybe he's just to young to have such a rich treat?!
Good grief woman, let that pup grow a bit before feeding it frosty paws!
To: Laura Earl
Morning Laura Earl, are the evil work demons leaving you alone today?
To: xsmommy
Why thank you...I love a good hm job first thing in the morning.
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posted on
08/12/2003 5:31:08 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: secret garden
LOL, I'm sure they do. I am also reminded that I have a longer commute now that the kiddies are starting school.
To: Flurry
LOL!
To: RikaStrom
They just haven't shown up yet...with school back in session here, it is to my benefit to get to work earlier to avoid idiot traffic.
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posted on
08/12/2003 5:34:21 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: RikaStrom
he didn't eat the whole cup of it, not even a quarter of it, he just licked away for a few minutes, with xsbrownie holding the cup for him. hey, you are as bad as the pediatrician bi#hing me out for giving xsteen a tiny taste of ice cream at 6 mo. of age, and she broke out into hives. she said why are you giving a baby ice cream!
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posted on
08/12/2003 5:35:22 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Laura Earl; RikaStrom
i just have a few more weeks of sailing into work with minimal traffic. those last minute august vacations are still going on here. school starts after labor day.
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posted on
08/12/2003 5:36:30 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: RikaStrom
To: xsmommy
Let the puppy eat puppy food, then when he's older you can feed him stuff like that. Poor Puppy
To: RikaStrom
mornin teach...(yawn!) Lo Mein figured how to turn the alarm off last night...
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posted on
08/12/2003 5:38:22 AM PDT
by
camle
(dis blondes in MY presence willya?!)
To: All
To: RikaStrom
I'll be attenuating school today, Miss Rika. LOL!
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posted on
08/12/2003 5:40:02 AM PDT
by
Slip18
To: RikaStrom; xsmommy
I once split a BOX of Thin Mints with a toy poodle. Results were bad.
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08/12/2003 5:40:07 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: secret garden
You have to register for that site... can you give us the highlights?
A+
To: Laura Earl
did the poodle croak? i know chocolate is deathly for dogs. xspup ferreted out a runaway choc easter egg from under the seat in the van once. then there was the time that he snatched the chocolate donut off the table that had xsbrownie's ADD meds in it... he acted like a weirdo ALL day long!
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posted on
08/12/2003 5:42:06 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
No she didn't croak, but she hurled o'plenty. This is the same dog that ate M&Ms on a daily basis, and usually a scoop of ice cream (the human variety, usually chocolate). She should have died many times, but was 14 y.o. when she died of cancer. By the way, her name was Farrah...guess when she was born.
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posted on
08/12/2003 5:46:46 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: xsmommy
Pups tend to barf. As long as he is eating, don't worry about it, unless it lasts a week.
Didn't the xskids barf on your shoulder when they were young?
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08/12/2003 5:49:12 AM PDT
by
Slip18
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