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Word For The Day, Friday, September 5, 2003
The Verbivores
| 9/5/03
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Posted on 09/05/2003 5:03:08 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....
deride \de*ride\, verb:
deriding, derides, derided; transitive verb
derider; derision noun
deridingly; adverb
1. To speak of or treat with contemptuous mirth.
2. To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
3. Contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule.
4. A state of being derided.
It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.
--William Safire, "The Counter-Revolution," New York Times, May 22, 1989
Etymology: [Latin d r d re : d -, de- + r d re, to laugh at.]
TOPICS: Education; Humor; Poetry; Word For The Day
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To: RikaStrom
Morning!
Democrat birds of a feather
In New Mexico all flock together.
Deriding our President and American ideals
Like squabbling crows at a meal.
How will we find ya'll at the range tomorrow? Will you be wearing a sign?
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:30:15 AM PDT
by
Texan5
To: dubyaismypresident
My Bad, 3rd and 1....But If you're going to do that, youve got to make Vinny take the ball on second down......
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:30:45 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: RikaStrom
I hear on the news that last evening that 8 of the 9 Demo-dwarves (Doc, Bashful, Dopey, Sleepy, Grumpy, Sneezy, Happy,and Kerry) got together to
deride Bush, and the GOP itself.
President Bush's response was most appropriate: "Are you ready for some Football?"
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:32:08 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
To: RikaStrom
First? I'm not deriding everyone else that came before me, but I was pushed out of the way and trampled by a whole lot of students. What the heck is with that?
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:36:36 AM PDT
by
Slip18
To: hobbes1
Heck what about all the screen plays at third and long. Six yards don't mean anything when you need eight to convert.
45
posted on
09/05/2003 5:36:50 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
To: hobbes1; dubyaismypresident
OMG, get over it already wouldja! you are living in the past!
46
posted on
09/05/2003 5:36:53 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Slip18
i don't know slippy, i just got here and i was walking slow. how are ya?
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:37:26 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: RikaStrom
oh boo hoo hoo, the
DOWDY ONE cannot escape her fate as an object of derision.
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:40:38 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: dubyaismypresident; Slip18; Flurry; hobbes1; RikaStrom
okay. i showered this AM, wore deoderant and look relatively decent. why did everyone run and hide when i got here?
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:41:36 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: RikaStrom
You didn't get flooded, did you Miss Rika? Here, I'm sending you some sun from the Valley of the Sun. Can't find a photo. But you get my drift!
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:41:40 AM PDT
by
Slip18
To: RikaStrom; Flurry
Wow, my first post on WFTD and I score a grade! I am still waiting for Flurry to grade me for incorporating his creative term for antis.
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:41:57 AM PDT
by
CSM
("We have been assigned to the hall of Freep. No other work is allowed" - Equality 7-2521)
To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
That's what I heard. I can only come up with 8.
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:42:01 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
To: Flurry
Mornin'. Is it wrong to be thinking of the lounge already?
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:42:41 AM PDT
by
CSM
("We have been assigned to the hall of Freep. No other work is allowed" - Equality 7-2521)
To: Flurry
You got an F? That's very rare for Miss Rika. Have you been a bad boy in class this week?
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:42:50 AM PDT
by
Slip18
To: xsmommy
You look very nice but I was just gonna stare.
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:45:01 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
To: xsmommy
I'm here too. Straightened my hair and wore a sheer dress so I could distract the croqs from their everlovin' football.
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:45:39 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Je pense que ce vin a deja ete bu.)
To: theDentist
Ready for football season. Sleep in, read new books, et cetera. Baseball season was not as I expected.
How are you tD?
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:46:09 AM PDT
by
Slip18
To: CSM
You always get an A from me for your dogged determination and tenacity.
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:46:59 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
To: CSM
I always think of the lounge.
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:47:29 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
To: Slip18
Ready for football season. Sleep in, read new books, et cetera. Maybe you'd feel different if Arizona has a professional team.
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posted on
09/05/2003 5:47:37 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
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