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Word For The Day, Thursday, August 21, 2003
The Verbivores
| 8/21/03
| Teacher
Posted on 08/21/2003 5:27:06 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....
jocular; \Joc"u*lar\ adjective:
jocularity; noun
jocularity; adverb
1. Characterized by joking.
2. Given to joking.
Blues lyrics are no less dark when ("Nobody loves me but my mother / And she could be jiving too" -- B. B. King).
--Roy Blount Jr., "There's More to Southern Humor Than Foot-Long Pecan Rolls," New York Times, December 11, 1994
Etymology: [Latin iocul ris, droll, from ioculus, diminutive of iocus, joke. See yek- in Indo-European Roots.]
TOPICS: Education; Humor; Poetry; Word For The Day
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To: RikaStrom
First? Top Ten?
Don't you have to be very small to be a jocular? Or is that avuncular? I'll ask my dad's brother.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:38:04 AM PDT
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: RikaStrom; xsmommy
Jocular.
JOCKular.
To: camle
You're breating aren't you. Camle! Camle!
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:38:31 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
To: Gabz
Oh bats breath. What an idiotic idea. Students only have their lunch break to socialize with their friends (at least if teachers are running the classrooms correctly). Someone went powermad trying to stop a rowdy few.
A+
To: camle
breating = breathing
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:39:22 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
To: RikaStrom
Mornin'. I was out with the flu (not swine). Anyway, today's word mixes well with an observation: when you sleep while having a fever, dreams tend to become a bit crazier, less stolid, and the humour that results is the definition of jocularity. I had a dream about being a fly on the wall during Gore's attempt to steal the election, following their circular logic, and then one about being on the crew of the first German Submarine. Both will make a helluva screenplay, though the Submarine dream is most lucid right now.
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:39:24 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
To: Consort
To: Flurry
Morning Flurry.
I will have java as soon as I get to work. My flavor syrups for the coffee are there.
To: hobbes1
Morning Tiger.
To: RikaStrom
Morning Rika Chan!
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:40:55 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: Flurry
I'm just cranky this morning.
Facing me is one of the things I hate most to do in my life - updating my resume. The worst part is that all I have is hard copy, can not find it on my hard drive anywhere, it must be on the drive of my old system. So I have to retype the entire thing.
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:41:22 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Flurry
Oh BLAH! LOL
That was not a flattering photo.
A+
To: LonePalm
To: RikaStrom
Morning!
Arnold's tremendous popularity
Is due to his jocularity.
But he needs a serious way
To rescue the state from Grey...
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:42:42 AM PDT
by
Texan5
To: Flurry
at this time, i'm not so sure about it. My agent got back from Maine yesterday and before I even get the dern report, I get an email that MY presence is required over the next week or so.
So I'm trying to schedule three days where I can get up there and do what I gotsta do.
Some work on the bunker project needs my explicit approval, signature, check, etc..
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:43:11 AM PDT
by
camle
(thanx fer asking)
To: theDentist
Goodness!
I hope you are feeling better tD. Excellent usage of a couple of words, but you know there are no grades for personal stuff.
To: RikaStrom
It's the most idiotic thing I've heard in a while.
Kids need to be able to socialize - they are not little robots - they're KIDS for pete's sake.
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:45:43 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: RikaStrom
"Oh, Arnold!" said Shriver on her wedding night, gasping for breath. "What a jocular!"
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:55:21 AM PDT
by
Fawnn
(Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you....)
To: Gabz
I hope all the parents sue that school-that policy can't be good for normal kids! Hubby said that is the way lunch is in OCS, with the upper class monitors marching up and down the aisles yelling "Shut up, cadet" at anyone who even breathes too loud. They also made the lower classmen all pick up their forks and put a bite of food in their mouths in perfect unison. Is that next for these poor kids?
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:58:03 AM PDT
by
Texan5
To: RikaStrom
Flavor Syrups? What's wrong with black coffee?
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posted on
08/21/2003 5:58:18 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
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