To: VinL
"I’m curious if the Torquemadas seeking to ban 'The Dukes of Hazzard' from our TV sets are equally exercised by all of the leftist college students with posters of Che Guevara in their college dorm rooms," Cruz said, referring to Tomas de Torquemada, who served as the first grand inquisitor of Spain. Uhh... I think he meant "exorcised," not "exercised."
And even that isn't really right. Unless we're in Linda Blair territory.
6 posted on
07/04/2015 6:12:00 PM PDT by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: Steely Tom
Tom, the use of the word “exercised” in this context is a wholly appropriate usage of the word.
23 posted on
07/04/2015 6:20:58 PM PDT by
VinL
(It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
To: Steely Tom
Yep , it fits, they get exercised being all upset about something [From the dictionary]:
(now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
26 posted on
07/04/2015 6:28:10 PM PDT by
W.
( Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
To: Steely Tom
"Uhh... I think he meant "exorcised," not "exercised." And you would be wrong. Cruz's use of the word is correct.
32 posted on
07/04/2015 6:39:50 PM PDT by
CatherineofAragon
(("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
To: Steely Tom
No, he meant “exercised”.
41 posted on
07/04/2015 6:54:00 PM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
To: Steely Tom
No, Ted used the correct word; exercised also means angered and/or upset.
Cruz has a good grasp/unserstanding of the English language!
To: Steely Tom
Are you kidding me? SERIOUSLY! You think Cruz picked the wrong exercise?!
Do you even exercise? DO YOU?!!! It's hard to exercise. Ask Chris Christie!!!!
Did you notice the italics? That's as hard as exercising. Ask... I don't know ... anyone!
So... yeah! Just cool your heels, dude, on this exercise stuff.
Life under Obama is hard enough!
61 posted on
07/04/2015 8:01:42 PM PDT by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Steely Tom
He used the correct word.
64 posted on
07/04/2015 8:13:32 PM PDT by
Excellence
(Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
To: Steely Tom
exercised is fine.. Meaning kind of all worked up.
66 posted on
07/04/2015 10:08:02 PM PDT by
libbylu
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