Word For The Day, Monday, September 22, 2003

The Verbivores | 9/22/03 | 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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pernicious \pur-NISH-us\, adjective:
perniciousness; noun
perniciously; adverb

1. Highly injurious; deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful.
2. Archaic. Evil; wicked. .
3. Quick; swift (to burn).

Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. --Shak.

Etymology: [Middle English, from Old French pernicios, from Latin pernici sus, from pernici s, destruction : per-, per- + nex, nec-, violent death; see nek-1 in Indo-European Roots.]

[RikaStrom]

Good Morning Students. Welcome to class!

Class is now in session. The rules are simple; you get a grade if you use the WFTD in a sentence, haiku, limerick, or quatrain. You get a "+" if you make a link, or make the teacher laugh, or you offer the appropriate bribes. I hold the grade book; the whip and chair.

NewsChannel5 reported that the Department of Homeland Security is ordering two Korean sisters out of the country, saying they don't qualify for visas. But the cloistered nuns are hoping a higher power will intervene.
The women live as cloistered nuns with the order of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland. Inside, the nuns pray for the entire world 24 hours a day. They never leave the church except for when they need medical care, and they have almost no contact with the outside world.

Deporting the Nuns
Pernicious Immigration
Selective ruling.

Officials Say Cloistered Nuns Are Security Risks

[RikaStrom]

Morning Kiddies

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Morning Kiddies

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Morning Kiddies

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Morning Kiddies

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

1?

[camle]

mornin dearie

[Gabz]

howdy!!!!

[RikaStrom]

Did y'all have a terrific weeknd?

[camle]

it was OK. took the motorhome saturday night and the coquette for a night's camping. took mom to visit dad in his nursing home sunday. the tyke was reasonably well behaved but the ex was being a dink again.

yours?

[Gabz]

Just peachy.

I couldn't wait for that school bus to show up this morning.

[RikaStrom]

Reasonably well, my car is back in my possession, so is my computer, but I'm still having a slight software issue. Nothing that isn't a workaround. :-)

Exs are required to be dinks, I think it's in the divorce papers.

Gabz, were you happy to see your little darling off to school today? Sounds like she ran you ragged this weekend.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Good morning!

[RikaStrom]

Morning Whyisa!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

We had a bad weekend here.....three boys from our neighborhood and one girl from the area were in a serious car accident Friday night.... two kids had to be airlifted to the hospital, the other two taken by ambulance...... the two in ICU were finally moved to regular rooms last night, one boy was treated and released Friday night......the little girl, an 8th grader, died.

[Gabz]

Between the kid and the dogs, this was the longest 5 days I can remember - even worse than the week of the blizzard when hubby wasn't home.

but I shouldn't complain - it could have been worse - I could have been without power or hubby like XS. I only had to be without hubby Wednesday night, thursday morning, Friday night and all day yesterday.

[Gabz]

That tragic, Whyisa.

[camle]

well today is certainly a better day from a splendid weekend. time to drag out the Harley and chug around fer awhile.

[camle]

wow! what happenned? booze?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

The boy who was in the worst shape, and still is, dated my daughter last spring - his parents are good friends of ours....... my daughter and I have been helping them out by staying at their house with the two little boys at home - we went over Friday night when they got the call about the accident, then at 2am when the Dad came home to relieve us, the phone rang and a catscan had revealed some serious internal injuries that had gone undetected and they were rushing him to surgery..... I told him to head back to the hospital that we would stay all night.........