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prestidigitator \Pres`ti*dig"i*ta`tor\, noun
prestidigitation, noun
1. Performance of or skill in performing magic or conjuring tricks with the hands; sleight of hand.
2. A show of skill or deceitful cleverness.
Etymology: French, from prestidigitateur prestidigitator, from preste nimble, quick (from Italian presto) + Latin digitus finger: Date: 1859
Here is my example with WFTD:
In a wonderful show of prestidigitation, the lowly hound returned the money, slightly worse for wear but intact. Dog Eats Money, Returns It Intact . Oh, wait, you guys want a serious sentence? Well, ok.
McLame in his ever-increasing delusions of statehood has fascinated the public with his feats of legerdemain and his seemingly endless prestidigitation. He keeps thinking the people will be fooled into believing that he is a nice conservative moderate… when what he is, is a demonrat in disguise. This is his latest trick. McCain may leave Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004
The doors are open, come on in.
WotsamoddaU hey,
Gotta no respect, whatta you think you do,
Why you looka so sad?
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place,
Ah, Shaddap You Face.
The doors are open, come on in.
The doors are open, come on in.
Palm Beach Florida officials (the ones who gave us hanging chads) are trying to identify the prestidigitator who registered Cocoa Fernandez ( a poodle) to vote.
methinks that had the dog registered as a democrat, there would be no problem.
howdy folks! I'm back!
Morning Camle. How was the trip?
Did Cocoa vote democrat or republican? LOL, must have registered republican.
A+.
Good morning teach!
I managed to get the French office straightened out with only a few firings, but Germany is so screwed up that I had to shut the whole operation down. 23 people. (sigh!) I haven't decided whether or when I may reopen. I might just stay put.
The british operation centre managed to clean themselves up when they heard that I was coming down personally - the miscreants (all three of them) beat feet before I could get at their scruffy little weasel necks. So I spent the day finding suitable replacements. Got in late last night so I gots a little jet lag.
how was things in my absence? Boring?
Good Morning, Miss Rika.
I see that Tom Dashole is trying to perform some verbal prestidigitation after his speech saying that if the Demoflops get back control of the House, they'd raise taxes. It seems now that he's already denying that he said that. In other words, trying to make his remarks dissappear. FAT CHANCE!
The article inferrs that Cocoa is a Reform Perty member, but does not specify.
Yikes, one office squared away, one office closed and three cowards who ran for the hills. Great workers you've got over there!
OH you know you were missed horribily while you were gone. The coquettes were pining away.
How does a Chinese warlord change a scholar into a criminal?
Presto! Prestidigitation!
(I guess this is where the word Presto comes from)
Clinton's prestidigitation in avoiding incarceration has stupefied the nation. How can Condit be obstructing justice by throwing out evidence of a watch given to him by an old girlfriend, when Clinton had Betty Currie hide similar gifts under her bed? How can Clinton be walking around, revered by the left-wing masses who will pay six figure sums to hear him pontificate for an hour, when he had Monica Lewinsky proffer an affidavit swearing that there were no sexual relations being carried on? And now Condit has sent a former lover a similar false affidavit to sign, and the words "perjury," "witness tampering," and "obstruction of justice" are being bandied about on every cable network. If Clinton was innocent then so is Condit. The rule of law was declared permanently null and void by the cowardly United States Senate, whose members (with a handful of exceptions) refused to address the evidence and gave Clinton a free pass in pursuit of their own political careers. We reap what we sow.
LOL, little tommy dashole, what a creep. I can't believe he actually said they would raise taxes.
A+
Well....I brought back surprises for all the coquettes!
Some french champagne for their palates
Some of the latest british fashions for their lovely bodies
and some Italian bread, freshly baked (I stopped briefly in Italy before leaving - their office was operating within their parameters, so I left them pretty much alone)
so for the lovely coquettes, a loaf of bread, a jug of wine (OK champagne), and tho maketh for a fine return to civilization!
At her recent confirmation hearings in May, Assistant Sec. of State Christina Rocca acted with presto digitus in pointing out that US sanctions had outlived their purposefulness.
Today, while addressing Indian government officials, Ms. Rocca with prestidigitation said that US sanctions against India (imposed in 98 for nuclear proliferation) would soon be lifted.
Well, yes. That would work. A little dated unless you can link it to what some ChiCom is doing lately?
That's how all scholars become criminals.
Liberalization
Their obfuscation
Is prestidigitation
Across the nation
Off to a morning meeting! Miss Rika, I think I deserve extra credit today because I'm thirsty. Either that, or an early swig from the thermii. Later gator!
The Dover (DE)City council has a long history of prestidigitation when it comes to doing what it wants in direct conflict with that of its residents. The newest prestidigitator on council, newly elected council President abruptly adjourned last night's meeting in the middle of comments be made by newly elected 3rd district councilman Rob Ritter. Mr. Ritter believes the voters have spoken loudly against a proposed park on the west side of town, as evidenced by the more than 2 to 1 margin of defeat of a regerendum of it this past spring. McGlumphy disagrees claiming that voter just didn't like the cost associated with the proposal. McGlumphy was the head of the committee that designed the project.
In the most insidious act of prestidigitation, this story was not reported in this morning's local newspaper. (Fortunatley I still have my abilities from my time as a reporter covering this council to succinctly sum of the meeting!!!)
Good morning all!!!
Welcome back dear!!! seems you had your work cut out for you.
A++++++
I don't know what to tell you TSSYF. The criminal culmination coming from congress is frightening. The federal government has done so little for so long, that the sheeple expect it.
The only thing I can possibly think of is the Condit doesn't have the dead trail behind him that Clinton does.
Bless you my dear.
Good morning to you too, G.
I really loathed having to kick so much butt over there, but it is up to me, and only me, to protect my interests.
champagne? (I got some ale for the dudes)
Good morning, Teacher!
It appears that it was an act of prestidigitation on the part of President Bush, to convince Vladimir Putin of the validity of his reasoning re; the ABM treaty. Couldn't have a thing to do with it being deep, sound reasoning that convinced him.
Very interesting. A+
If I'm not being too impertinent, may I ask what it is you do to neccesitate so much butt kicking??
You are so kind!
I have a blue silk scarf for you - how do you like it?
Related to the intellectually stimulating conversation yesterday, I once experienced a miracle in my life, no prestidigitation involved. While on a hunting trip, I climbed out of the tent in the middle of the night to relieve myself. Imagine my shock and astonishment, the sense of awe and humility I had in the morning when I noticed a perfect portrait of Elvis in front of tent, in yellow, of course.
Oh very nice. A+. That little piece should be posted on everyones profile.
Take the thermii with you to the meeting. Works really well.
OOOOHHHHHH. I just LOVE getting presents.
It's beautiful and perfectly matches the ensemble I am wearing to the various meetings I must attend this day.
Thank you, thank you.
Ol' George is tryin' to give us some psychedelic prestidigidation about that whole near-death-experience thing being a bunch of paparazzi HOOEY.
Dammit, George, just go on and die already! I done went and wrote your gol-darn-blamed eulogy and all. D'ya think I have time to sit here and lament your sorry a$$ unnecessarily?! C'mon, let's get a lil' gracefulness and good form into all this...
Morning Gabz.
He cut the guy off mid-comment? Wonderful people you have there.
A+
inasmuch as I shouldnt' discuss business on this space, suffice it to say that there were some folks over on the contiinent who are paid to watch out for, and advance my interests over there. Several of them have been acting less in my interests and more on their own. My assets were being depleted (or at least not increasing as they should) for their benifit.
since their actrions belied an interest in their pursuits, I merely provided them the impetus to persue them without any hinderances from my organization.
did I tell you that Germany is really screwed up??
tis nothing, but it does match your eyes.
I was sad at missing you the past couple of days, and thought that I could show, in some small manner, how much joy you bring into my existence.
Oh now xs, you no better than that. Deep sound reasoning only works on reasonable people.
A+
Aw, shucks. Weren't nuthin!
Thanks, Teach! Maybe I will post it on mine! Have a good day.
YUP - just lovely. He adjourned the meeting after another council member demanded that he be cut off.
Thank you for the grade - I apologize for no link to the story, but as I said it was not reported in the local paper and the northern paper does not have anything on its website about it.
Gotcha!!!
In what way is Germany screwed up?
Your a love - and as you know, flattery will get you everywhere.
May I have another glass of that marvelous champagne. what a spendid bouquet it has.
they seem to feel that the world owes them a living and work is voluntary and not in any related to compensation.
add them pesky greens to the equation, and their continued existence becomes problematic to anyone with an income.
but of course you may have some more champagne!
we may never need the thermos again!
Sounds like an awful lot of folks on this side of the big pond as well.
And even if we do, I promise to never try to keep it from you again!!!
Where'd everybody go??????????
you are right, but I don't have any on my payroll
LOL ralphie. I don't know about grading that little bit of prestidigitation, but I will hold some extra credit for you.
You guys were soooooo bad yesterday.
Good for you.
You sound like the kind of employer I would enjoy working for.
ROFLOL, max!
A+, give the man time.
Miss rika, Gas left a note in my backpack to let me know he was gassing patients today and asked that i let you know that he will be here to kiss up... i mean participate in class, as soon as he is able..
I predict a substandard and linkless submission from him, but that is just me.
The budget monster attacked me! I love spreadsheets....NOT!
spald, post #13: "How does a Chinese warlord change a scholar into a criminal? Presto! Prestidigitation! (I guess this is where the word Presto comes from)
Rika, post #18: "Well, yes. That would work. A little dated unless you can link it to what some ChiCom is doing lately? That's how all scholars become criminals.
RikaStrom, see HERE for link.
In a wild bit of prestidigitation the liberals who were crying so loudly that we could not afford and should not have a tax cut are now crying that their refunds are too small.
LOL, left a note in your packback huh? Did he and CJ decided to load up the lifts today?
You hariolate a linkless sentence, hmmm. I thought you were tutoring him after school for linkage.
He and CJ are forever with people on lifts! i guess it is levitation rather than prestidigitation at work there?
I am withholding linkage info from Gas so as to preserve my preeminence as pet...
Links are always good the first time around! :-)
40 years. (shaking head)
A+
Columnist Stephen Moore offers an interesting bit of prestidigitation designed to finally provide some accountability for how Congress spends our money. Pity his plan has about as much chance of becoming reality as Gary Condit does of becoming the next Pope.
Oh jeez, quitcher*itchen! Stupid liberals. $300 doesn't do anything for me either, but at least I didn't whine about getting the refund in the first place.
A+
During liberal administrations, using social security payroll taxes for general operating revenue is viewed as skillful prestidigitation. During conservative administrations, liberals view it as theft.
Interesting article WR. Automatic Tax Rebate. I like the concept. A+
RJ,
Columnist Stephen Moore offers an interesting bit of prestidigitation designed to finally provide some accountability for how Congress spends our money. Pity his plan has about as much chance of becoming reality as Gary Condit does of becoming the next Pope.
Quote of the day?
What's sauce for the goose ....etc.
A+, talk about liberal doubled standards.
hey teach!
did the principal ever get his new house, or did he move out in shame after we discovered his secret (inflatable) passion?
RikaS, post #58: "Links are always good the first time around! :-)"
But then there'd be no prestidigitation (definition 2. A show of skill or deceitful cleverness).
I saw the men in the white coats coming for the principal last week. It appears that when you stole his lady love, he went into a deep dispair!
ROFLMAO. Ok Spald, you get that one, plus an extra +.
Michael K. Coombs escaped serious injury after Messer shot him in the side of the chest in the Valley subdivision on NW 39th Avenue.
Could one of you medical types tell me where the Valley subdivision is in the chest?
The profligate prestadigitation produced by Hollywood is rather amusing. However, THIS poorly written article, which beats up on Matt Drudge for giving away some of a current movie, seems to miss the point. The point I would like Hollywood to hear from Americans is "YOU OBVIOUSLY MISTAKE US FOR SOMEONE WHO REALLY CARES WHAT YOU FOLKS DO."
Please excuse my misspelling of the WFTD - it's a typo. I love this word!
I did give it back! you saw me!
all it needed was a patch or two, maybe three?
LOL, I mispelled it too. I had to print out a copy so I could keep looking at it. This is a fun word. :-)
Tell the dinks in Hollyweird to buzz off. A+
You zapped it with the howitzer. He was heartbroken.
i wish my girlfriend, Sea, would come to school, i miss her! she has been truant of late.
Funny, OPH hasn't been in class much lately either, hmmm....
It appears that the liberals are using a very nast form of prestidigitation are trying to hack the Klamath Basin on-line petition.
SPECIAL STATEMENT: Regarding efforts to disrupt and destroy the Klamath Petition
It's our land, if we can possess it.
It's our water, if we can use it.
It's our Republic -- if we can keep it.
The above three lines are courtesy of Eastbound
Hmmm... well, I know that C is camping, did OPH decide to taste the wilderness as well?
xs, shame on you for starting rumors.... hehehehe
what can i say, the classroom is kinda dull today...might as well rumormonger!
I zapped his house. I had no idea that he would have such a thing within. As soon as it wafted on the breeze and I caught it, I offerred to return it.
dull?
oh well, here XS, have this nice pair of gloves that I bought back to you from England.
What, praytell, does your handle mean? Are you excessively motherly? The mother of all excess?
thanks, camle, how sweet! i will have to wait for a cooler day to wear them, i suppose, as there is a heat advisory today!
Sometimes they do make us work unfortunately. (sigh)
I will be happy when the budget spreadsheets are done. They are always a pain, and we won't mention the non-existant fiscal management by the field.
a coquette must retain some mystique about her, and my XS will remain mysterious... and why did this burning question pull you out from behind the cash register today? we have tried summoning you in various sundry ways before to no avail, now i know all i have to do is wave my XS around.
In an act of prestidigitation
Carter has made himself a spokesman
In criticizing Bush
Jimmy gets a rush.
Methinks too much libation.
I was intrigued, interested in gaining access to your excess.
I think good ol' Jimmy needs to go back to his peanuts. Everytime he decides he is going to speak to some topic, I have visions of amy, the nuclear expert.
well you certainly liven up a classroom, dontcha?
I understand that they are now teaching apes how to get food by using computers. On the monitor, they have a picture of some food, (for example a potato) that the apes have to click on in order to get food. Sooo, the apes prestidigitator and are fed accordingly.
I try. Academics is my life.
i seem to recall that you were quite studious when you were not chronically truant.
ROFLMAO.
Normally I don't grade on those, but yesterday's and today's had me rolling and the people at work looking at me reallllly funny.
You get an A+ in creative construction of curious creations.
I had to read yesterday's out loud before it clicked in. hehehehe
I am the epitome of the dedicated student: attentive, taking copious notes, and even photos.
Eureka! I think I have it! Are you the fourth wife of a rogue Mormon with three children?
Yes, your photography skills are legendary. Sorry, never been to Utah.
Hey now, wait a minute, I'm pure as the driven snow - always temperate in words and deeds, willing to lend a helping hand or to donate time - and I never, ever think impure thoughts about any person who doesn't live in my happy home...
did your wife just register with FR...?
here too. but I have AC. I'm sure they'll look lovely when you do wear them, I picked them up especially for you.
did your wife just register with FR...?
ROFLOL
i think OPH was just struck dead for stringing together so many untruths in a single post.
No, but I'm practicing for when (or if) she does. She can't sit at home all day on the boring BS sites she looks at all the time.
Of course, if she ever figures out how to download and install "PC Weasel" (a keystroke recorder), I'm a dead man.
"PC Weasel" (a keystroke recorder)
ummm...what is this thing, and is it something i need to worry about?
For those rare times I actually go to confession and take communion, I make sure no kids are standing close by - just so they don't get injured if perchance I burst into flames.
For those rare times I actually go to confession and take communion, I make sure no kids are standing close by - just so they don't get injured if perchance I burst into flames.
Listen, i saw Ted Kennedy leaving Mass at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception this spring, while chaperoning my kindergartener's field trip. If that man did not turn into a fireball, you are perfectly safe!
If you have to ask, well...
Just this past week, some guy brought in transcripts of his live-in girlfriend's (they were living together 5 years, so it looks more like the Big D) computer sessions - she left, took their child and more than a little money. They were a little lurid, and he had been running this utility more or less in a hidden mode before confronting her about it - of course, he works in IT, and knows more than most in configuring it.
I couldn't find the thing on any site when I was looking for it, so it ain't likely readily or widely available.
If that man did not turn into a fireball, you are perfectly safe!
That was good. I am surprised he even sets foot in a church.
Well his attendance was for show, as it was the Mass dedicating the new Catholic Cultural Center on the grounds of the Shrine. There were dignitaries aplenty and we also saw W's motorcade pass by our little Catholic schoolbus. I remarked at the time, on seeing Fat Ted not 10 feet in front of me, that it was remarkable that he had not burst into flames.
Ted Kennedy, eh? I'm not sure whether I'm relieved or insulted, LOL.
geez, the cool things you learn in your practice!
I just try to file each little piece of information away in little useful mental subfolders for when I want to use it.
discuss this one at home over the dinner table?
Wooo Hooo! I got the stupid spreadsheet to do what it is supposed to. Yippie, skippy!
Ok Students, Time for the:
so... ah.. teach...?
do you know what loony bin they took our dearly beloved principal to? I have just finished baking this cake with a file in it for him and need to know where to deliver it.
I just know he's looking forward to seeing us again!
I am withholding linkage from Gas...
Tell me, was it the sausage?
Yippie, skippy!
Inspiring word usage from teacher at WFTD.
Um, no, not in entirety. Let's just say some pertinent details were left out.
ok funny guy, where ya been?
My dad as a very young boy was nicknamed "potato bug" as his job was to go out to the garden and pick the potato bugs off the potato plants. This often got shortened to just potato or even shorter. One of my granddad's favorite jokes, family stories tell, was to call my dad over and on a variation of an old joke, granddad would say, "Press the digit, tator."
Hangin out with funny people. How ya doing?
Holding out on me, honey? I reckon that this is prestidigitation by you to hold the illusion that you are still main pet...
i was fairly productive today. got a hideous brief cranked out. all that and an A+ from miss rika!
(groan!)
I reckon that this is prestidigitation by you to hold the illusion that you are still main pet...
Well i was right about substandard and linkless, but this is not even topical...slipping, gas, honey...
Germany is so screwed up that I had to shut the whole operation down.
But can you do something about those accordians?
I think it was extremely topical...
i think miss rika, should she ever surface from her spreadsheet, will tell you that classmates are not current events. you can always try the condit easy out...
accordians are nice. I bought one back during a previous trip but never really learned how to play it.
I like any instrument that doesn't require ac power, and some that do.
I brought some champagne from france, would you like some?
(My dad is German, plays the accordian...it's just too funny.)
Champagne before 6:00 pm? How very festive! I'll be useless the rest of the day, though. Thank you. Did you bring me back one of those smashing crocheted dresses from Soho?
The yellow one is for you, goes with your hair in the sunlight.
and there's plenty more champagne when that glass is gone...
I overheard some of the other faculty mention a place call the Happy Harmony Hills Hideway. It's run by Dr. Hyde and Nurse Hyper.
Inspiring word usage from teacher at WFTD.
Smart Aleck... hehehehe
classmates are not current events
Well, that depends, are we a current event?
Let me get you a new class started. You just sit back and rest.
i was fairly productive today. got a hideous brief cranked out.
well, if you'd quit taking all those vacations maybe you'd actually get some work done. ;)
I had a hideous brief once, but then I washed it.
Tuck in your presto digitas. The patients might get scared.
Thanks for the heads up! };^D)
Quote of the Day by Doctor Raoul
--todays proclamation by apprentice royal head prestidigitator, the most excellent wizardess and kings confidant, gale de norton, in decreeing the "release" of 75,000 acre of feet of the king's captive waters to the klamath basin serfs and feather merchants and stout yeomanry at last puts to rest the allegations of who was "more correct" in the two camps of 'what might happen".
The much larger camp insisted on legalese "trumping", with much speculation on godlike squads of the professional word twisters brotherhood, and others of this nefarious ilk, and various other normal political hoo-doo, but the real magic used,the magic fore-saw by smaller net camp of the Adepts, that it could just be thusly and forsoothly ordered at any time,upon the king's whim and by-his-leave, and that the Royal executive branch has always been in a postition to just order it done,and so it has has prevailed.
Vindication for the smaller camps viewpoints! Cyber success with the scrying efforts, the veil of darkness has been lifted by the corner, allowing a peek of the future for all to see and ponder!
Of course, there will be much grumblins and enchantments muttered under breath by some of the brethren, that perchance some sort of legalese convulted gobbledegook necromancy and assorted charms and runes and secret spices invoved with this were always the issue, but basic cosmological interpretations and advasnced scrying hath shown what is really true in this matter, and where the wand of power doth rest, and in whose hands it doth yield up it's power!. A king squawks, the serfs listen and obey!
One has to assume that this royal edict and assurance was perchance delayed for various and nefarious occultic and and political alchemic reasons, some obvious to the noviatiate, some not so obvious but perhaps understood by the adepts in the Craft and United Guild of Seers and Independent Soothsayers.
The seers wish the sturdy agrarians wise use in this tossed bone from the King, to thoroughly masticate the meat scraps contained thereon, and to not give up their long term efforts and husbandry of their assets, and coin, and to use this repast to gain much needed strength, and perchance more vision, to ensure future and more bountiful repasts.
--there are a variety of keystroke monitors and recorders out there, as well as remote administration "tools". I can think of several of them offhand that would do the job you describe, and I am not an IT professional whatsoever, merely a driver of electrons. There is even a nsa class (or at least gumshoe class) unwired species, known in the trade as "tempest".
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