GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
I created a charity "Foie-gras Sans Frontières" which aims to help poor people everywhere to have a chance to taste "Foie-Gras" at least once in their life. Would you donate your liver? It would come handy to our New Guinea branchBrad wrote:My hobbies are fairly diverse ... I've been (in some of my many different hobbies and careers to date) both a bartender, a beverage judge/reviewer, tastings organizer, and amateur winemaker/brewer. I'm a real-life beverage geek, when it comes to alcohol.
Human is as human does....Animals don't weep, Nine
[i]LMB, The Labyrinth [/i]
[i]LMB, The Labyrinth [/i]
Word of the Day Thursday July 5, 2007
heterodox \HET-uh-ruh-doks\, adjective: 1. Contrary to or differing from some acknowledged standard, especially in church doctrine or dogma; unorthodox. 2. Holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines.
They fight with members of other faiths, who seem to challenge their claim to a monopoly of absolute truth; they also persecute their co-religionists for interpreting a tradition differently or for holding heterodox beliefs.
-- Karen Armstrong, Islam: A Short History
Most of the Kurds were Sunni Muslims, but perhaps a quarter or a third adhered to heterodox varieties of Islam that preserved traces of earlier religions.
-- Susan Meisalis, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History
Moreover, heterodox behaviour -- in the form of eccentric chess moves -- was even encouraged, if it led to good results.
-- Jon Speelman, "Chess", Independent, October 24, 1998
Mr. Buckley is an American exotic of the far right, who wins some sympathy for his frankness and boldness since, in this sorry world, the heterodox are always laughed at whether right or left.
-- Richard L. Strout, "All That Is Out of Joint and Needs Setting Right", New York Times, April 28, 1963
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Heterodox comes from Greek heterodoxos, "of another opinion," from hetero-, "other" + doxa, "opinion," from dokein, "to believe."
heterodox \HET-uh-ruh-doks\, adjective: 1. Contrary to or differing from some acknowledged standard, especially in church doctrine or dogma; unorthodox. 2. Holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines.
They fight with members of other faiths, who seem to challenge their claim to a monopoly of absolute truth; they also persecute their co-religionists for interpreting a tradition differently or for holding heterodox beliefs.
-- Karen Armstrong, Islam: A Short History
Most of the Kurds were Sunni Muslims, but perhaps a quarter or a third adhered to heterodox varieties of Islam that preserved traces of earlier religions.
-- Susan Meisalis, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History
Moreover, heterodox behaviour -- in the form of eccentric chess moves -- was even encouraged, if it led to good results.
-- Jon Speelman, "Chess", Independent, October 24, 1998
Mr. Buckley is an American exotic of the far right, who wins some sympathy for his frankness and boldness since, in this sorry world, the heterodox are always laughed at whether right or left.
-- Richard L. Strout, "All That Is Out of Joint and Needs Setting Right", New York Times, April 28, 1963
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Heterodox comes from Greek heterodoxos, "of another opinion," from hetero-, "other" + doxa, "opinion," from dokein, "to believe."
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
S Adams
S Adams
Francine was a transexual dock worker with heterodoxical beliefs regarding heterosexuality. Unfortuantely, her devoutly orthodoxical heterosexual supervisor had no room for heterodoxical bisexual transexuals among his dockworkers, and promptly docked the heterodox's pay ... in the hopes she'd leave his dock and take her heterodoxy elsewhere.
Since successfully making it through his OxyContin detox, Dr. Locks had been pushing the faculty like an ox to think outside the box and establish a department of Paradoxical Heterodoxy - but the foxy Dean Roxy was unwilling to grant him proxy even though he knew his proposals would rock the socks of even the hardliner hawks.
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously
Dean Roxy looked up from her morning bagel, and stared in disgust as Dr. Locks, in a vulture-like display of abysmal table manners and culinary heterodoxy both, eschewed the half-chewed remains of his platter of lox & onions, and snatched a half-eaten chocolate croissant from the table next to theirs ... along with the waitress' tip.
"Hey!" exclaimed Francine, emerging from the washroom just in time to see the last of her croissant disappearing into Dr. Locks' mouth. "Just what do you think you're doing, lummox?"
"Forgive my heterodox conduct, madam," said Locks, licking his fingers. "I couldn't resist."
Francine's expression hardened. "Normally I'm all for heterodoxy, but where's the #@%$ tip I just left? First my pay gets docked down at the wharf this morning and then I have to deal with a thief in a coffee shop?"
"Disgruntled dock worker, eh?" said Dean Roxy, eyebrows raising with interest. "You must be transsexual then. Why don't you join us?"
"Forgive my heterodox conduct, madam," said Locks, licking his fingers. "I couldn't resist."
Francine's expression hardened. "Normally I'm all for heterodoxy, but where's the #@%$ tip I just left? First my pay gets docked down at the wharf this morning and then I have to deal with a thief in a coffee shop?"
"Disgruntled dock worker, eh?" said Dean Roxy, eyebrows raising with interest. "You must be transsexual then. Why don't you join us?"
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously
"Mind if I ask why you're sitting with this guy?" Francine asked Roxy.
"Good question," Roxy said. "I was just thinking that myself. But despite all his surface toxicity, lox-belching and Botox gawking while walking, Locksy's heterodoxy can still be pretty interesting sometimes. Cut him some slack - he just got out of rehab."
"I think he's about as interesting as pox," said Francine.
"Now, now," Dr. Locks pontificated, "let's not let any bad ticks mess up the tocks in our clocks."
"Good question," Roxy said. "I was just thinking that myself. But despite all his surface toxicity, lox-belching and Botox gawking while walking, Locksy's heterodoxy can still be pretty interesting sometimes. Cut him some slack - he just got out of rehab."
"I think he's about as interesting as pox," said Francine.
"Now, now," Dr. Locks pontificated, "let's not let any bad ticks mess up the tocks in our clocks."
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously
Word of the Day Friday July 6, 2007
sere \SEER\, adjective: Dry; withered.
. . .a country that has been transformed from a place of lush abundance to a sere, mutilated, inhospitable land.
-- Zofia Smardz, "A Nice Place for Extinction", New York Times, June 15, 1997
Recent rains have done little to relieve the sere conditions.
-- Thomas Omestad, "The struggle over water", U.S. News and World Report, April 10, 2000
Mr. Campbell, a biologist, spent three seasons in the Antarctic and returned with eerily clear perceptions of that sere and uninhabitable place.
-- review of The Crystal Desert, by David G. Campbell, New York Times, December 5, 1993
There was a lavatory at the end of the garden beyond a scraggy clump of Michaelmas daisies that never looked well in themselves, always sere, never blooming, the perennial ghosts of themselves, as if ill-nourished by an exhausted soil.
-- Angela Carter, Shaking a Leg
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Sere comes from Old English sear, "dry."
sere \SEER\, adjective: Dry; withered.
. . .a country that has been transformed from a place of lush abundance to a sere, mutilated, inhospitable land.
-- Zofia Smardz, "A Nice Place for Extinction", New York Times, June 15, 1997
Recent rains have done little to relieve the sere conditions.
-- Thomas Omestad, "The struggle over water", U.S. News and World Report, April 10, 2000
Mr. Campbell, a biologist, spent three seasons in the Antarctic and returned with eerily clear perceptions of that sere and uninhabitable place.
-- review of The Crystal Desert, by David G. Campbell, New York Times, December 5, 1993
There was a lavatory at the end of the garden beyond a scraggy clump of Michaelmas daisies that never looked well in themselves, always sere, never blooming, the perennial ghosts of themselves, as if ill-nourished by an exhausted soil.
-- Angela Carter, Shaking a Leg
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Sere comes from Old English sear, "dry."
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
S Adams
S Adams
"Sire, dit le Renard, vous êtes trop bon Roi"
"Sire, said the Fox, you are too generous a King"
(in French "Sire" is sounded "see-ruh"; in english does it sound like that or rhyme with "tire"?)
A seer having told the animals that the plague that was killling them came because of the sin of one of them, the Fox managed to avoid confessing his own serious trangressions by putting the onus on a donkey, used to nibbling a few sere straws, but who had eaten just a mouthful of grass from a lush meadow.
"Sire, said the Fox, you are too generous a King"
(in French "Sire" is sounded "see-ruh"; in english does it sound like that or rhyme with "tire"?)
A seer having told the animals that the plague that was killling them came because of the sin of one of them, the Fox managed to avoid confessing his own serious trangressions by putting the onus on a donkey, used to nibbling a few sere straws, but who had eaten just a mouthful of grass from a lush meadow.
Human is as human does....Animals don't weep, Nine
[i]LMB, The Labyrinth [/i]
[i]LMB, The Labyrinth [/i]
Word of the Day Monday July 9, 2007
aborning \uh-BOR-ning\, adverb: 1. While being produced or born.
adjective: 1. Being produced or born.
In universities at least as much as anywhere else, vast floods of words pour forth to no useful end. Nothing would be lost if they had died aborning.
-- Loren Lomasky, "Talking the talk: Have universities lost sight of why they exist?", Reason, May 2001
In "Base-Ball: How to Become a Player" he expounds on the importance of the sport's vital edges: pickoffs, relay throws, brushback pitches, drawing the infield in or moving it out, hit-and-run plays, signals -- all commonplace today, but in 1888 only aborning.
-- Bryan Di Salvatore, A Clever Base-Ballist
Nine months later, ABC Washington bureau chief George Watson left to join the aborning Cable News Network, taking several staffers with him.
-- Judy Flander, "Catching up with Katie Couric", Saturday Evening Post, September 1, 1992
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Aborning is derived from a-, "in the act of" + English dialect borning, "birth."
aborning \uh-BOR-ning\, adverb: 1. While being produced or born.
adjective: 1. Being produced or born.
In universities at least as much as anywhere else, vast floods of words pour forth to no useful end. Nothing would be lost if they had died aborning.
-- Loren Lomasky, "Talking the talk: Have universities lost sight of why they exist?", Reason, May 2001
In "Base-Ball: How to Become a Player" he expounds on the importance of the sport's vital edges: pickoffs, relay throws, brushback pitches, drawing the infield in or moving it out, hit-and-run plays, signals -- all commonplace today, but in 1888 only aborning.
-- Bryan Di Salvatore, A Clever Base-Ballist
Nine months later, ABC Washington bureau chief George Watson left to join the aborning Cable News Network, taking several staffers with him.
-- Judy Flander, "Catching up with Katie Couric", Saturday Evening Post, September 1, 1992
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Aborning is derived from a-, "in the act of" + English dialect borning, "birth."
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
S Adams
S Adams
(Lord Byron in the womb)
So we'll go no more a-borning
So late into the night,
Though the placenta still be as loving,
And the amniotic fluid still be as right.
Man, that's bad.
On that sunny morning, while Ted Junior came aborning, Ted Senior sat in mourning over Don Vincenzo's warning that debts were still adorning (he'd purchased too much cooking ware off that TV ad from Corning).
So we'll go no more a-borning
So late into the night,
Though the placenta still be as loving,
And the amniotic fluid still be as right.
Man, that's bad.On that sunny morning, while Ted Junior came aborning, Ted Senior sat in mourning over Don Vincenzo's warning that debts were still adorning (he'd purchased too much cooking ware off that TV ad from Corning).
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously
The Doula’s Rhyme
{adapted by Brad from the “A Hunting We Will goâ€
{adapted by Brad from the “A Hunting We Will goâ€
Last edited by Darb on Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
GENRE: The Hobbit {spoof}
BILBO: {singing}
A beorning he will go, a beorning he will go,
Heigh ho, werebear-ee-o, a beorning he will go.
A beorning he will go, a beorning he will go,
He'll choke the goblins an kill the wargs,
And leave us honey and scones.
BEORN:
Hey, pipe down in there - I'm trying to hibernate !
Blasted noisy little gits, always singing and eating and carrying on at all hours of the day and night. I should cook up the lot of ya and eat you for dinner. I dunno who's worse ... the blasted goblins, or dratted troublemaking dwarves, or the annoying hobbits !
Gandalf ... take your bloody gaggle of vagabond midgets, and get the $#@^ outta my longhouse before I maul the lot of them !
BILBO: {singing}
A beorning he will go, a beorning he will go,
Heigh ho, werebear-ee-o, a beorning he will go.
A beorning he will go, a beorning he will go,
He'll choke the goblins an kill the wargs,
And leave us honey and scones.
BEORN:
Hey, pipe down in there - I'm trying to hibernate !
Blasted noisy little gits, always singing and eating and carrying on at all hours of the day and night. I should cook up the lot of ya and eat you for dinner. I dunno who's worse ... the blasted goblins, or dratted troublemaking dwarves, or the annoying hobbits !
Gandalf ... take your bloody gaggle of vagabond midgets, and get the $#@^ outta my longhouse before I maul the lot of them !
Bystander1: Was that a thread kill ?
Bystander2: Dunno ... the sudden pregnant pause after those nasty afterbirth & scatalogical puns is worrysome.
Bystander1: Hey, watch the puns - I dont want to get spotted and shot at.
Bystander2: Oh what are you worried about ? We're completely invisible to them. Besides, nobody's here right now. Hey, watch this ...
[unhide]
Bystander2: ABORNING ! ABORNING ! ABORNING !
[/rehide]
Bystander1: {terrified} Are you mad ?!! They'll see us !
Bystander2: Relax. Nothing will happen, trust me.
Bystander3: I've got $50 that says you've signed your own death warrant.
Bystander2: You're on. Easy money, sucker.
Bystander2: Dunno ... the sudden pregnant pause after those nasty afterbirth & scatalogical puns is worrysome.
Bystander1: Hey, watch the puns - I dont want to get spotted and shot at.
Bystander2: Oh what are you worried about ? We're completely invisible to them. Besides, nobody's here right now. Hey, watch this ...
[unhide]
Bystander2: ABORNING ! ABORNING ! ABORNING !
[/rehide]
Bystander1: {terrified} Are you mad ?!! They'll see us !
Bystander2: Relax. Nothing will happen, trust me.
Bystander3: I've got $50 that says you've signed your own death warrant.
Bystander2: You're on. Easy money, sucker.
Hey, I spotted a repeat.
Has dictionary.com saimese twins been aborning, almost 3 years apart ?
Has dictionary.com saimese twins been aborning, almost 3 years apart ?
Ghost wrote:Word of the Day for Tuesday August 31, 2004
sere, also sear \SEER\, adjective:
Dry; withered.
. . . a country that has been transformed from a place of lush abundance to a sere, mutilated, inhospitable land.
--Zofia Smardz, "A Nice Place for Extinction," New York Times, June 15, 1997
Recent rains have done little to relieve the sere conditions.
--Thomas Omestad, "The struggle over water," U.S. News and World Report, April 10, 2000
Mr. Campbell, a biologist, spent three seasons in the Antarctic and returned with eerily clear perceptions of that sere and uninhabitable place.
--Review of The Crystal Desert, by David G. Campbell New York Times, December 5, 1993
There was a lavatory at the end of the garden beyond a scraggy clump of Michaelmas daisies that never looked well in themselves, always sere, never blooming, the perennial ghosts of themselves, as if ill-nourished by an exhausted soil.
--Angela Carter, Shaking a Leg
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Sere comes from Old English sear, "dry."
/yeh, it's hot but it's a sere heat. (Arizona +100)
This thread will rapidly become fairly sere if a 3 year repeat cycle in our WOTD fodder begins to appear.Word of the Day Friday July 6, 2007
sere \SEER\, adjective: Dry; withered.
. . .a country that has been transformed from a place of lush abundance to a sere, mutilated, inhospitable land.
-- Zofia Smardz, "A Nice Place for Extinction", New York Times, June 15, 1997
Recent rains have done little to relieve the sere conditions.
-- Thomas Omestad, "The struggle over water", U.S. News and World Report, April 10, 2000
Mr. Campbell, a biologist, spent three seasons in the Antarctic and returned with eerily clear perceptions of that sere and uninhabitable place.
-- review of The Crystal Desert, by David G. Campbell, New York Times, December 5, 1993
There was a lavatory at the end of the garden beyond a scraggy clump of Michaelmas daisies that never looked well in themselves, always sere, never blooming, the perennial ghosts of themselves, as if ill-nourished by an exhausted soil.
-- Angela Carter, Shaking a Leg
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Sere comes from Old English sear, "dry."
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"Tire" -- at least 'round here.voralfred wrote:(in French "Sire" is sounded "see-ruh"; in english does it sound like that or rhyme with "tire"?)
"Budge up, yeh great lump." -- Hagrid, HP:SS
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
