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Word For The Day, Friday, August 22, 2003
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| 8/22/03
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Posted on 08/22/2003 5:20:15 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....
rapacious \ruh-PAY-shus\, adjective:
rapaciousness, rapacity; noun
rapaciously; adverb
1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence.
3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious.
[Thy Lord] redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim
--Milton.
Etymology: [From Latin rap x, rap c-, from rapere, to seize. See rep- in Indo-European Roots.]
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To: RikaStrom
Hmmmmm....Lets see, Gurads from the Iraqi Secret Service, a turned down offer of increased American security, and directly targeting one individual....Could the Iraqi UN Bombing have been plotted to cover up the
Rapacious U.N. Appetite for Oil-for-food Cash ?
Inquiring Minds want to know.
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posted on
08/22/2003 5:46:26 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: hobbes1
It's hilarious.
they went from anna Karnikova to Richard Simmons.
As my husband called it - from the princess to the queen.
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posted on
08/22/2003 5:46:52 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: camle
Or as God says, "Thank me it's Friday".
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posted on
08/22/2003 5:47:41 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
To: Gabz
LMAO~!
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posted on
08/22/2003 5:48:43 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: xsmommy
the routines have been hysterical..........
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posted on
08/22/2003 5:49:18 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Gabz
richard simmons might be a fruit, but he is hysterical
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posted on
08/22/2003 5:53:53 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: hobbes1
Did somebody say "Commando???
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posted on
08/22/2003 5:53:57 AM PDT
by
camle
(thanx fer asking)
To: Flurry
i'm welcome
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posted on
08/22/2003 5:54:38 AM PDT
by
camle
(thanx fer asking)
To: xsmommy
he's so blatant about that it makes it very funny.
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posted on
08/22/2003 5:55:36 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Gabz
the image of him being fed by the hooters girls was priceless.
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posted on
08/22/2003 5:57:08 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
He's too fruity for me. I like it when he cries with some Phat chick.
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posted on
08/22/2003 5:58:20 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
To: Flurry
Morning Flurry
To: RikaStrom
Mornin
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posted on
08/22/2003 6:00:05 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
To: RikaStrom
Ok I am going to work... we've got major meetings all day. joy... NOT
Stay out of trouble
To: RikaStrom
i feel like being a troubleMAKER today.....; )
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posted on
08/22/2003 6:00:56 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
I missed that, sigh..............
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posted on
08/22/2003 6:00:58 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Flurry
what's a "phat" chick?
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posted on
08/22/2003 6:01:15 AM PDT
by
camle
(thanx fer asking)
To: Gabz
did you see the poor crippled up anna?
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posted on
08/22/2003 6:01:38 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
LOL!!!
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posted on
08/22/2003 6:02:36 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: camle
Phat as in some who eats too much phood phor long enough to be phat. Well the fone is ringing I have to go.
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posted on
08/22/2003 6:05:25 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
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