Word For The Day

The Verbivores | 9/10/03 | Hobbes1 The Good Sub

[hobbes1]

xantippe noun
Pronunciation:zan*tip

Date: 14th century

1. shrewish wife of Socrates
2.figuratively, a bad-tempered woman

I am not Going there.....So have at it...

[hobbes1]

Are you talking about xsmommy, or yourself ? ; )

[xsmommy]

no doubt you have it memorized.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Good cause it's about you but xsmommy always want some reference to ho in pomes

[secret garden]

Projecting now?

[Conspiracy Guy]

What'a a Linoleum Grandma? I sense some kitchen pictures.

[Gabz]

[hobbes1]

Well, now you weren't very specific, and since the nowhere to go part excludes me by definition..... ; )

[secret garden]

Extra credit : Cornell has put a xantippe on the payroll, but not without an outcry.

[secret garden]

How old was your mother before she went completely gray? ;)

[xsmommy]

i am going to endeavor not to be maudlin today. the rap radio station that xsteen and i were listening to on the way in, had some moving rhetoric. audio clips from 9/11. then they went to the song that PDiddy sang for Biggie Smalls (I'll Be Watching You). so my eyes are filled with tears and i glance over at xsteen and we both start laughing hysterically. i said, so i guess this is what passes for a sentimental musical selection on this station!

[secret garden]

You've got to find better radio. Rap???

[Gabz]

LOL!!!!

I can only imagine what my fav country station is playing this morning. I think I will find a different station when I go out later.

[Laura Earl]

I got to listen to Elvis singing The Battle Hymn of the Republic with interspersed excerpts of GWB's speech on the night of 09/11/01.

[xsmommy]

SG, i have very eclectic musical tastes. we go from the alternative rock station (where they were discussing some bizarro disease where people feel compelled to pull out their own hair and EAT IT! i love the topics that they get into but this was REVOLTING) to rap etc. i will not be pigeonholed.

grimmy has already tried to lecture me on my liking rap music. i liked black music every since i was little and this happens to be the latest permutation of it out there.

[xsmommy]

oh the country station will do something very patriotic i am quite sure!

[xsmommy]

i have to say i was no elvis fan, i will take PDiddy over elvis ; ). must have been a country station though? to play the Battle Hymn of the Republic? country hands down is the most patriotic music.

[hobbes1]

Abe's words are still fitting, on this day...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.

We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

[hobbes1]

Are you stoned?!?!?!?!?


I''m not an Elvis fan, But he would beat PSissy's ass.....

[hobbes1]

Now if you had said....Ice Cube...

[xsmommy]

well we must have some levity, regardless of the gravitas of the day, and you can't get more LEVITATIOUS than this