Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 12, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/12/03 | Teacher

[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....

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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).]

[Slip18]

Hoorahhhhh! First day of SGkids school days? Sleep in. Have a party.

[Slip18]

Thin mints have dark chocolate. That's a no-no for doggies. Now M&Ms are different.

[secret garden]

I mailed you the full description. The best part is the picture of the W doll on Iowahawk's post.

[Slip18]

Oh, geez. A ten you ate?

[Texan5]

Morning!

The runaway dumocrats are quiet
After attempting to start a riot.
Public opinion attenuates their position
And puts it in a shabby condition.

[Laura Earl]

It was a big no-no. LulaBelle has never, and will never get an opportunity to taste chocolate, dark or otherwise. The only "people food" she gets is cheese. And an occasional grilled burger.

[Slip18]

So the alarm was on and Lo Mein turned it off?

[Texan5]

Same here. Our dogs never get chocolate or any other kind of sweets, but do get leftover meat, etc. They are particularly fond of scalloped potatoes and fresh cooked Texmati rice. No, they aren't overweight (yet).

[Conspiracy Guy]

I could not resist. It was overwhelming. I beat the other word nuts to it.

[camle]

yep. Whenever I get up, I always reset the alarm for tomorrow. When I go to bad, I recheck it to see that it is set (a light comes on).
sometime in the middle of the night, Lo Mein woke me up playing on the nightstand where the clock sets.
Thsi morning, I woke up and saw that the alarm light was off and it was 45 minutes late...
@#$%#@$%cat!

[Slip18]

The Great Dane I had years ago hated to have his nails clipped. The only way he would let me clip them is if I gave him a Kahlua and milk. He was so yellow mellow after the Kahlua. And Kahlua, I think, is chocolate based.

My neighbor used to give the eldest dog I have beer. This dogs loves beer, although he hasn't had it for a long time.

[RikaStrom]

Ok kiddies, I am out of here, I have to stop for gas, or I won't make it to work!

Stay out of trouble!

[Laura Earl]

The carbs will make those pups chunky! I overdid the carbs yesterday, and am feeling pretty chunky today...Had baked ziti last night...it was yummy, but the scale protested this morning! And I'm meeting Flurry for Mexican today at lunch.

[Slip18]

Simba, the cat, the wonderful, wonderful Cat, loves to change channels with the remote. Actually, I think he thinks he's hatching a new remote. He likes to lay on things. Weird.

[Conspiracy Guy]

LulaBelle gets beer out of fridge and drinks it. But she is very thoughtful and always brings me and LE one each. I told Lula that she needs to get a job. She tilted her head at me.

[Laura Earl]

Lu likes to lick up spilled beer.

[Conspiracy Guy]

It was delicious.

[Slip18]

Are you two FReeping together? Otherwise it's pinky-fingers or GMTA or GPTA.

[camle]

I had to find a new location for the remote when the cats discovered that they could mess up the TV by walking upon it. Several times I came home to find the TV on and turned to some strange station...

[Laura Earl]

And you were scared at first because there was no meat in it!