Word For The Day, Friday, August 15, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/15/03 | 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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nates \na*tez\, plural noun

1. The buttocks.
2. The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
3. The umbones of a bivalve shell.

The democrats will find that their plethora of piffle will come to bite them on the nates. Of course, those blissoming bullies will become anorchus amoebas when they're trumped and tromped in the edifying election.
--Rika Strom, WFTD Teacher, 2003

Etymology: [Latin nat s, pl. of natis, buttock.]

[xsmommy]

i am pretty sure he said he lives 12 mi. outside the city. i know he thinks he is a he-man, but i can't imagine he could drag his nates that far. hopefully he got a ride. i heard that they were making cars take riders to NJ that were going thru the Lincoln Tunnel.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Walking is good for the soul but bad for the soles.

[RikaStrom]

Morning Camle, morning Gabz.

Gabz, you wouldn't be late if you'd quit playing with camle in the closet! ;-)

[theDentist]

Today I'm doing just great (no sarcasm). I'm headed into the weekend without a crisis (work or home). I called up to Mass. to check on my folks when the outage hit. I laughed out loud when I heard that my parents, upon hearing of the blackout, cooked up 2 bags of popcorn, sat down on their nates and watched it on Fox News like it was the Movie of the Week!

[secret garden]

Newark was out too. What a nightmare that must have been up there. But wait a minute. Pennsylvania was untouched. Was this an evil plot by the Keystone state? Or, as purported on another thread, is it part of the Cheney/Haliburton scheme to take over the world? /sarcasm

[secret garden]

[xsmommy]

PA must be on a different grid? western NY, including Syracuse and Utica were were powerless. i called xsbro who is south of cleveland and he was ok. they are flying out of Pgh and not cleveland for their FL vaca today. but they still expect some problems bc people will need to reroute if they can't get out of cleveland.

[Texan5]

Morning!

The senators sitting on their nates
Are bitterly cursing their fates.
Their fines increase every day
They insist on their own way.

[camle]

I was out on the harley last night with the tyke and noticed that the signal lights were out in Montville. We stopped at the local diner to find no power, and that it had just gone out a few minutes prior to our arrival. We took off.

I was of the opinion that someone had crashed into a utility pole, which is the most common cause for a blackout. Some of the restaurant workers were almost praying for a majro outage. seems they were right and I was wrong.

it was fun to make every light from New London to Norwich, but Norwich was fine, and we found a joint there to eat. Got home, phoned the family to verify they were OK, and settled down to some TV.

other that that, there was no impact on me. OF course the estate has it's own generator with a 30 day supply of fuel, so it wouldn't upset me too much either way... We DID get a spike though. not enough to setoff the power out lights onthe clocks, but enough to screw up the scanner.

my thoughts remain with the kitty, hoping he didn't get his fur up in an uproar inthe heat in NYC.

[camle]

sorry teach, it's just that she has extra clothing to put on. all I need is a t shirt and jeans, but being a girl, she needs pantaloons, hose, binders, etc.. all them things a girl uses to make herself presentable (she looks better without them IMHO, but)

[RikaStrom]

Well, the finger pointing is definitely out and about over this.

A+

[Gabz]

For long I've considered Blather to be a nates - but he has now proven that he doesn't even have half a brain in his nates.

TV Anchor Injects Politics into Power Outage (Dan Rather-biased)

But I totally love this dig the article takes at cBS!!!

The Media Research Center noted that if CBS were so concerned about the blackout, maybe it could have cancelled some of its prime time line-up.
According to MRC, While the other TV networks were airing President Bush's remarks about 8:54 p.m. EDT, "CBS continued with the program Amazing Race 4. Then at 9 p.m. EDT, Rather cut in with a one-minute update that included a Bush soundbite. Afterward, it was on to CSI and Without a Trace," MRC said.

[RikaStrom]

From what I could see there were a ton of people on foot, then occasionaly the odd car was moving. Did they just abandon their cars, or were those the people who didn't have cars?

[RikaStrom]

LOL, yep!

[VRWCmember]

The following story is just another reminder that the dems need to shut their mouths and get their nates back to Austin where they belong.

Dems' leader says Redistricting may strip road funds, congressman says

On another note, has hillary blamed W and the VRWC for the blackouts and asked "what did the president know and when did he know it" yet? Do her nates move when she talks or is she a ventriloquist?

When W spoke yesterday afternoon from California about the blackouts in the east, I kept waiting for him to quip something along the lines of "I guess you know a little something about rolling blackouts (or grayouts) here."

dubya, I'm glad to here you weren't affected too much by the blackouts. tiger, I hope you're back with us soon.

[Texan5]

That sounds like tinfoil material...Where is it?

[RikaStrom]

LOL! Good for your parents.

[xsmommy]

i doubt most people DRIVE into the city. they would take either the bus, like the tiger, or the subway. so without those 2 options, hoofing it would be the only way.

[camle]

I remain firmly onthe side that states that our power grid is as fragile as it is because the enviro-wackos have seen fit to badger our "leaders" to put so many stupid enviromental rules/regs that solidifying things is hindered.

not that a good blackout every now & again is a BAD thing. it can be fun and instructive at the same time...

[Gabz]

Apparently many of the safeguards of the grid did work. Or the outages would have been worse. That grid goes as far south as at least the Delmarva penninsula.