The past is never dead. It's not even past...
Discipline is more important than ability....
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change ready...
And you actually have credit?? :wink
Quote from: Vajras on February 02, 2009, 05:43:37 PM
And you actually have credit?? :wink
Yeah, more than one. There's 18.5 million of them in my sig :rofl:
Sorry to hijack your topic, Cruncher Pete. Just want you to know we DO read them!
... and enjoy them. :cool:
You cannot choose when you are born or when you will die, but what you do in between is up to you...
Give a man a fish, feed him for a meal. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime...
If this is the era of time saving conveniences, why don't we ever have any time?...
Hatred does not end by hatred, Hatred ends by love...
If you're standing still, you'll be left behind...
Love makes time pass, and time makes love pass...
If you are going to be sorry later for not doing it now, then do it now. Don't wait...
The deeper you look into an issue, idea, or situation, the more ambiguity and complexity you will find...
The truth is all around me, but it's just beyond my grasp...
If you're standing still, you'll be left behind...
If you dont try, you can't fail !!
Ignorance is more likely than knowledge to give confidence...
You get from people what you give them. If you give them loyalty, they will be loyal to you. If you give them love, they will love you in return...
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down...
Those who care most about themselves are the least happy; those who care most about others are the most happy...
Quote from: Cruncher Pete on February 16, 2009, 07:28:39 AM
Those who care most about themselves are the least happy; those who care most about others are the most happy...
... and those who care about nothing are ecstatic! :wink
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal...
Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them...
Which is why some of life's problems are called insurmountable :D
If you can stay calm whilst all around you is chaos...
... then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation.
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle...
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg...
biggrin I love these thoughts :thanks1:
and a big ditto from me :congrats :biggrin
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow...
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary...
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible...
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out...
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks...
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil...
The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up...
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind...
And when your G-string breaks...
"the thong is ended but the malady lingers on."
(with thanks to my missus :rofl: )
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions...
It is easier to go down a hill, but the view is best from the top...
Some people dream of success..while others wake up and work hard at it...
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday...
If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done...
Word for the Day:
languid - (adjective) without energy, slow, sluggish, listless.
my word for the day ... "POGONTROPHY".... the "practise" of beard-growing.
eg: I am hoping to become a leading exponent in pogontrophy.
When deeds speak, words are nothing...
Word for the day:
camaraderie - (noun) a spirit of friendship.
Try not. Do or do not. There is no try...
Word for the day:
durable - (adjective) long lasting.
Small deed done are better than great deeds planned...
Word for the day:
euphemism. (adjective) Substitution of mild or vague expression for harsher or more offensive one: expression thus substituted...
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all...
Word for the day:
masquerade. - (noun) false show, pretence, pretend to be.
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
Word for the day:
illusion - (noun) Deception, delusion; sensuous perception of an external object involving a false belief, mistake, misconception, fallacy
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday...
Word for the Day:
Procrastinate - (verb). Defer action, postpone, delay, wait.
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes...
Word for the day:
motivation. - (noun) That which induces a person to act; desire.
Action is eloquence...
Word for the day:
eloquence. meaningful,important,descriptive, fluent, important.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars...
Word for the day:
hierarchy(noun). A ranking of people, things or ideas from highest to lowest. Network, organization, bureaucracy.
All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do...
Word for the day:
incorrigible. (adjective). Impossible to manage or reform. Hopeless, useless.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go...
Word for the day:
fallacy. (noun). An error in fact or logic.
Example: It's a fallacy to think that natural means "healthful", after all, the deadly poison arsenic is completely natural.
Synonyms. Misconception, falsehood.
Someday is not a day of the week...
Word for the day:
procrastinate. (verb). Defer action, postpone, lag, wait.
Hmm, that's twice this week we have had procrastinate. Are you trying to tell me something? :wink
Quote from: Wang Solutions on March 17, 2009, 09:46:48 AM
Hmm, that's twice this week we have had procrastinate. Are you trying to tell me something? :wink
Observant of you sir. It shows that you are reading it. biggrin. Actually, I had a feeling that it is a repeat but I did not bother to check it, I was procrastinating and lost the plot... :jester:
Don't bother attending the Procrastinators Anonymous meeting this week. It's been postponed indefinitely :rofl:
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more...
Word for the day:
sequential. (adjective). Arranged in order or series. Ordered, consecutive.
P.S. This is just a reminder for myself to watch what I am doing. More speed, less haste...
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others...
Word for the day:
phlegmatic.(adjective). Slugish and unemotional. Apathetic, distant.
Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them...
Word for the day:
Spurious (adjective). Lacking authority or validity. False, fake.
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done...
Word for the day:
responsive (adjective). Reacting quickly and appropriately. Acknowledging, perceptive, forthcoming.
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph...
Word for the day:
triumph (noun). Rejoicing in success, elation, exultation.
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do...
World for the day:
reverie. (noun) Musing, daydreaming. Instrumental composition suggesting dreamy or musing state.
Thank you Cruncher Pete, I do appreciate these little pick-me-ups in the morning :)
/me returns to my pre-coffee reverie...
People know you for what you've done, not what you plan to do...
Word for the day:
remorse.(noun), A painful sense of guilt over wrongdoing, guilt, anguish.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today...
Word for the day:
balance. equilibrium, equality, symmetry, scale, reminder, surplus, reconcile, equate, justify, offset, counterpoise, counteract, stabilize.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have...
Word for the day:
zealous (adj) filled with eagerness, fervor, or passion. Enthusiastic, dedicated.
What may be done at any time will be done at no time...
Word for the day:
decry (verb). To criticize or condemn. Denounce, censure.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week...
Word for the day:
servile. (adj) like a servant, submissive, fawning.
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it...
Word for the day:
convoluted (adj) twisting, complicated, intricate, complex, elaborate.
The question isn't who is going to let me: it's who is going to stop me...
Word for the day:
alacrity (noun) cheerful readiness to do something. Willingness, promptness, speed.
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway...
Word for the day:
florid: (adj) elaborate or flamboyant. Flowery, fancy.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher...
Word for the day:
replete: (adj) filled abundantly, full, abundant.
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the player, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning...
Word for the day:
exacerbate: (verb) to make worse or more severe, aggragate, infuriate.
Another word for the day:
wife: (verb/noun) to make worse or more severe, aggregate, infuriate. See also exacerbate. :rofl:
And if anyone shows her this post I'll knock their blocks off. Bashhead
mikemitchell: (verb/proper noun) to live dangerously, push one's luck/one who does this :cool:
:worship Plus one for that. :worship I'll have to watch myself, she knows Kungfu and heaps of other Chinese words. :rofl:
The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not a concern of the mind, but of the spirit...
Word for the day:
circumlocution (noun) speaking in a roundabout way, worthiness, redundancy.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today...
Word for the day:
fraternize (verb) to associate with on open friendly terms, socialize.
Quote from: Cruncher Pete on March 25, 2009, 08:02:39 AM
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today...
I thought that sounded familiar!
Are you testing if I am reading these again Pete?? biggrin
Just an inspiration for all of us WS. Than again, it is good to see if somebody is actually taking any notice of my efforts.
I think most of us really enjoy your pearls of wisdom - I know I do and read every one. :thumbsup:
I read all of them too ....... some dont click with me, others are fantastic
As for the word of the day, while interesting, I'll be damned if I ever use them haha
Just agreeing with WS and Onyx - I check these every day or two.
Quote from: Cruncher Pete on April 04, 2009, 08:00:16 AM
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today...
So true. *Stares at pile of Uni work*
Quote from: Cruncher Pete on April 04, 2009, 11:20:48 AM
Than again, it is good to see if somebody is actually taking any notice of my efforts.
1,637 people have read this thread (1637 views on forum menu).
*Staring at washing up and washing.....*
ya what??
Quote from: Cruncher Pete on April 04, 2009, 11:20:48 AM
Just an inspiration for all of us WS. Than again, it is good to see if somebody is actually taking any notice of my efforts.
I don't always get to read them (partly because " show unread posts" is hopelessly broken for me) but I do read them often.
Hey youse all, stop polluting this thread, I'm looking for my daily inspiration! biggrin
WW... here's one just for you - "People in glass houses...." :jester:
Quote from: Vajras on April 04, 2009, 08:32:55 PM
WW... here's one just for you - "People in glass houses...." :jester:
.... shouldn't get stoned. :shock
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream...
Word for the day:
solace (verb) to comfort or console, alleviate, soothe.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another...
Word for the day:
temperance (verb) moderation or restraint in feelings and behaviour, self-restraint, constraint.
Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in...
Word for the day:
diverge (verb) to move in a different direction, branch off, separate.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday...
Word for the day:
procrastinate (verb) to put off, to delay, dawdle, drag, linger.
Quote from: Cruncher Pete on April 08, 2009, 06:41:42 AM
Word for the day:
procrastinate (verb) to put off, to delay, dawdle, drag, linger.
Just what I don't need on a day I decided to work from home biggrin
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith. -Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (1792-1822)
Word for the Day:
hermetic
PRONUNCIATION:
(huhr-MET-ik)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Airtight.
2. Not affected by outside influence.
3. Relating to the occult sciences, especially alchemy; magical.
4. Obscure or hard to understand.
ETYMOLOGY:
From the belief that Hermes Trismegistus invented a seal to keep a vessel airtight in alchemy. Who was Hermes Trismegistus? It was the name of a legendary figure that Greek neo-Platonists thought was a blend of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. Trismegistos is Greek for thrice-greatest, from tris (thrice) + megistos (greatest), ultimately from the Indo-European root meg- (great) that's also the source of words such as magnificent, maharajah, mahatma, master, mayor, maestro, magnate, magistrate, maximum, and magnify.
Another word coined after Hermes is hermeneutic meaning interpretive or explanatory.
USAGE:
"So far, however, the net increase in accessibility and therefore accountability is welcome and popular compared to the hermetic secrecy and executive authoritarianism of the Bush administration."
Obama Makes An Early Impression; The Irish Times (Dublin); Mar 27, 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose. -Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine, mystic (1782-1857)
WORD FOR THE DAY:
Cadmean Victory
PRONUNCIATION:
(kad-MEE-uhn VIK-tuh-ree)
MEANING:
noun: A victory won at as great a cost to the victor as to the vanquished.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Cadmus, a Phoenician prince in Greek mythology who introduced writing to the Greeks and founded the city of Thebes. Near the site where Cadmus was to build Thebes he encountered a dragon. Even though he managed to kill the dragon, only five of his comrades survived, with whom he founded the city. Other words coined after him are calamine (a pink powder used in skin lotions), from Latin calamina, from Greek kadmeia ge (Cadmean earth) and the name of the chemical element cadmium.
A similar eponym is Pyrrhic victory.
USAGE:
"In the real world, governed equally by the market and natural economies, humanity is in a final struggle with the rest of life. If it presses on, it will win a Cadmean victory, in which first the biosphere loses, then humanity."
Edward O. Wilson; The Future of Life; Knopf; 2002.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.' -Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)
A WORD FOR THE DAY:
Pickwickian
PRONUNCIATION:
(pik-WIK-ee-uhn)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Marked by generosity, naivete, or innocence.
2. Not intended to be taken in a literal sense.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Samuel Pickwick, a character in the novel Pickwick Papers (serialized 1836-1837) by Charles Dickens. Mr Pickwick is known for his simplicity and kindness. In the novel Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Blotton call each other names and it appears later that they were using the offensive words only in a Pickwickian sense and had the highest regard for each other.
Another term that arose from the book is Pickwickian syndrome, which refers to a combination of interlinked symptoms such as extreme obesity, shallow breathing, tiredness, sleepiness, etc. The character with these symptoms was not Mr. Pickwick, but Fat Joe, so the term is really coined after the book's title. The medical term for the condition is obesity-hypoventilation syndrome.
USAGE:
"I kept a happiness diary, after the discovery by Professor Sonia Lyubomirsky that collating one's daily blessings resulted in Pickwickian good cheer."
Hannah Betts; The Pursuit of Happiness is Driving Me to Despair; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Apr 3, 2009.
"Mr. Tribe: Now, anybody reading that would realize that's a deadline only in a kind of Pickwickian sense. It's not a real deadline."
A Transcript of Arguments in the Supreme Court Over the Florida Recount; The New York Times; Dec 2, 2000.
"A Pickwickian chairman, rosy-cheeked, in frock coat and old-fashioned cravat, adopted the role of Santa Claus."
Mungo MacCallum; Growing Up: The Day Had Come; Sydney Morning Herald (Australia); Jan 21, 1987
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln
WORD FOR THE DAY:
slapdash [/color]
(adjective, adverb)
[SLAP-dash']
adjective
1. marked by great carelessness: "Kira was so distracted by thoughts of her new boyfriend, that her cooking had become a slapdash affair with often unpalatable results."
adverb
2. in a careless or reckless manner; 'the shelves were put up slapdash'
Origin:
Approximately 1675; from English, 'slap': directly + 'dash': to hurl or thrust violently.
In action:
"Joined by friends -- including bassist John Stirratt and drummer Ken Coomer -- Tweedy launched Wilco, and the irony embedded in the name (trucker lingo for 'will comply') expanded. First up was 'A.M.' in 1995, a catchy but by-the-numbers effort that sounds like a slapdash jam session when compared with the twangy bravura of sophomore album 'Being There,' which earned raves in 1996. Tweedy was on top, yet, Kot writes, there were days when he 'awoke hating what his life had become.' Hating his fans too: Kot recaptures a London concert at which the singer belittled the audience, embarrassing his bandmates. A critic of 'tortured-artist syndrome,' Tweedy was slouching under the weight of authentic depression, and two longtime companions -- migraines and anxiety attacks -- made things worse. He gobbled pills and kept the pain to himself. Except when he wrote.
Multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett created a sumptuous canvas for their third album, 'Summerteeth,' but Tweedy preferred sandpaper. The album, a raw and poignant near-masterpiece, features tales of murder, domestic violence, and infidelity, and its bleak commercial potential sowed tension between Wilco and its label, Reprise Records, which intensified when 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' was completed in 2001. By then Coomer was out of the band, replaced by Glenn Kotche, with whom Tweedy had formed a musical kinship not unlike the bond he once shared with Bennett, who was next on the chopping block. Kot doesn't sugarcoat Tweedy's behavior, particularly the astounding cowardice of asking his manager to ax old pal Coomer. Each party gets time in the witness box."
Ryan Mulcahy. "Wilco' history captures a young man as tortured artist," The Boston Globe [Book Review: 'Wilco: Learning How to Die,' by Greg Kot] (August 19, 2004).
"The book's concluding chapters are without question the most revealing about the motivations of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. It is therefore disappointing that chapters 7 through 10 are not entirely well done. They are slapdash, and characterized by the amateur anti-Communism of an earlier era. These chapters seem to be written by an entirely different hand than the first part, as if by an author who is not as careful about evidence as a serious reader might wish. The change of voice and tone is striking, which is too bad, because this part is clearly the emotional heart of the Swift Vets' case.
Nevertheless, anyone who wishes to understand our era is going to have to read this book. Those who wrote it are honorable men, as are John Kerry and those who stand with him. But the issues on which the two sides are divided are vital. Some of these issues (like the Cambodia allegation) can be settled by checking objective records. Some may be due to the Rashomon effect among diverse witnesses to the same events."
Michael Novak. "A Matter of Honor: Kerry made his war service an issue."The National Review (August 24, 2004).
"Pre-Games headlines predicting incomplete venues and slapdash security were laughed off as Greece, one of the smallest countries to host an Olympics, stood on the dais of a success."
Kevin Norquay. "Olympics: Games end with chief's anti-drugs message," The New Zealand Herald (August 30, 2004
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. -Diogenes, philosopher (412?-323 BCE)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
passe-partout
PRONUNCIATION:
(pas-pahr-TOO)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Something, for example a master key, that enables unrestricted access.
2. An ornamental mat used to frame a picture.
3. An adhesive tape used to attach a picture to a mat, glass, backing, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French, literally, passes everywhere, from passer (to pass) + partout (everywhere), from par (through) + tout (all).
USAGE:
"Francesco Isolabella, one of her lawyers, said, 'Marion True is being used as an excuse to criminalize all American museums.' Ms. True should not be used 'as a passe-partout to get at the Getty.'"
Elisabetta Povoledo; Casting Blame for Looting In Trial of Getty Ex-Curator; The New York Times; Jan 18, 2007.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
A Word FOR TODAY:
tranche
PRONUNCIATION:
(transh)
MEANING:
noun: A portion, especially of money, investment, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French tranche (slice), from trancher (to cut).
USAGE:
"Some of the banks, including Central Bank of India and Vijaya Bank, have already received the first tranche of capital."
Mergers of Public Sector Banks Favoured; Business Standard (Mumbai, India); Mar 31, 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. -Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine, mystic (1782-185
A WORD FOR TODAY:
beau monde
PRONUNCIATION:
(BO mond)
MEANING:
noun: The world of fashion; high society.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French, literally, fine world.
USAGE:
"The wealthy can be entertainingly absurd, as in Hannah Greig's enjoyable account of the struggles of the Countess of Strafford to be accepted as a leader of London's beau monde in the early 18th century."
John Mullan; Vex'd by Wallpaper; The Guardian (London, UK); Aug 18, 2007.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
A WORD FOR THE DAY:
bien-pensant
PRONUNCIATION:
(bee-aN poN-saN [the last three syllables are nasal])
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Right-thinking; conservative; conformist.
2. Self-righteous.
noun:
1. A right-thinking person.
2. A self-righteous person.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French, literally well thinking, from bien (well), + penser (to think).
USAGE:
"But the problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural."
David Gibson; Is One Man's Faith Another's Superstition?; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Mar 27, 2009.
"We North London bien pensant types do our best, we really do."
Peter York; How to Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is; The Independent (London, UK); Sep 17, 2006.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
pas de deux
PRONUNCIATION:
(pah duh DU)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A dance for two people.
2. A close relationship between two people or things involved in an activity.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French, literally step of two.
USAGE:
"This novel The Song Is You is a pas de deux between a young singer-songwriter and the much older man who actively, obsessively inspires her."
Kate Christensen; Always on My Mind; The New York Times; Apr 10, 2009.
"One of the many paradoxes of this place we call home is the pas de deux of life and death."
G. D. Maxwell; Screaming Into the Void; Pique Newsmagzaine (Whistler, Canada); Apr 8, 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
A man is respected not for how tall he stands but for how often he bends to help, comfort and teach...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
insolence
DEFINITION: (noun) an attitude or behavior that is bold and disrespectful.
EXAMPLE: Some feel that news reporters who shout their questions are behaving with insolence.
SYNONYMS: boldness, audacity
A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Between the greatest things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing...
A WORD FOR THE DAY:
emollient
DEFINITION: (noun) something that softens or soothes.
EXAMPLE: She used a hand cream as an emollient on her dry, work-roughened hands.
SYNONYMS: balm, salve
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing...
There are two times in life when we are most likely to be lost for words: when we're happiest and when we're saddest. For other occasions, we can usually think of a word. With such a large wordstock in its coffers, the English language is at the ready to supply just the right word.
Stock up your verbal reserve with this week's words, words that may make you say, "I didn't know there was a word for it!"
A WORD FOR TODAY:
perendinate
PRONUNCIATION:
(puh-REN-di-nayt)
MEANING:
verb tr. : To put off until the day after tomorrow.
verb intr.: To stay at a college for an extended time.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin perendinare (to defer until the day after tomorrow), from perendie (on the day after tomorrow), from dies (day).
NOTES:
The word procrastinate is from Latin cras (tomorrow). So when you procrastinate, literally speaking, you are putting something off till tomorrow. Mark Twain once said, "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." In other words, why procrastinate when you can perendinate?
USAGE:
"In Peterhouse the Master and Fellows might not allow a stranger to perendinate for more than a fortnight unless they were certified of his moral character and of his ability and willingness to do the College some notable service."
Thomas Alfred Walker; Peterhouse; Hutchinson & Co.; 1906.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Oh, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. -William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
moirologist
PRONUNCIATION:
(moy-ROL-uh-jist)
MEANING:
noun: A hired mourner.
NOTES:
There are some things in life money can't buy, for everything else, there's Mastercard. With the right credit card you could even hire mourners for your funeral or find the right sentiment. While researching this word, I came across websites that offer "eulogy packs". One such site lists a "Mother's Eulogy pack" that includes "9 speeches, 3 poems, 3 free bonus". Only $25.95 -- have your credit card ready. Fathers go cheaper: $19.97.
Let's not be too smug and look down upon those who buy these packs. When we go to the neighborhood card store to buy a greeting card or a sympathy card, we're also hiring someone to package words to help us convey our feelings.
Professional mourners are not a new thing either -- there's a long tradition going back to ancient Greece and beyond. As late as 1908 a New York Times article reported on a professional mourners' strike in Paris.
Then there is claque, a group of people hired to applaud a performer at a show.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek moira (fate, death) + logos (word).
USAGE:
"There may be found traces, too, of Lethe, the river of forgetfulness in the death ballads sung by the hired mourners... The moirologists will sing of the loneliness of the living, of the horrors of death."
George Walter Prothero; The Quarterly Review; John Murray (London, UK); 1886.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
prosopagnosia
PRONUNCIATION:
(pros-uh-pag-NO-see-uh)
MEANING:
noun: Inability to recognize familiar faces.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek prosopon (face, mask), from pros- (near) + opon (face), from ops (eye) + agnosia (ignorance). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gno- (to know) that is also the source of know, recognize, acquaint, ignore, diagnosis, notice, and normal.
NOTES:
Prosopagnosia is also known as face blindness, usually a result of brain injury. People suffering from it cannot recognize familiar faces, even their own. A book on this and related topics is neurologist Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
Prosopagnosiacs' motto: We don't take people at face value.
USAGE:
"Rob Cross, 25, acquired prosopagnosia four years ago when a virus attacked his brain. For years, he has hidden his condition by avoiding calling his co-workers at a Burnaby manufacturing company by name, or acting slightly aloof. 'Every morning people say, "Hi Rob," and the majority of the time I don't know who it is,' said Mr. Cross."
Hayley Mick; We Know Each Other, But Who Are You?; Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Jan 10, 2008.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living! -Philip of Macedon, king, father of Alexander the Great (382-336 BCE)
A WORD FOR THE DAY:
xanthodontous
PRORONUNCIATION:
(zan-tho-DON-tuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Having yellow teeth.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek xanthos (yellow) + -odon (toothed).
USAGE:
"That I am becoming, or have become, xanthodontous cannot be of interest to anybody."
Reginald Moore, Edward Lane; The Windmill (London, UK); 1946.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
borborygmus
PRONUNCIATION:
(bor-buh-RIG-muhs)
MEANING:
noun: A rumbling noise caused by the movement of gas through the intestines.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek borborygmos (intestinal rumbling), an onomatopoeiac word to describe the sound.
NOTES:
Borborygmi are usually harmless, they are simply a result of gas movement around the stomach. And the rumbling sound doesn't mean one is hungry either. We can't really do anything about the sound of a stomach growling, but we can take comfort in the fact that at least we know a fancy word to describe it.
USAGE:
"And the piece de resistance:
'He was woken early by borborygmus as his insides fermented and his intestines ballooned with gas beyond their capacity.'"
Ruth Dudley Edwards; Book Review / Straying Into A Dark, Ugly And Sick World; The Independent (London, UK); Sep 21, 1994.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
lethargic
DEFINITION: (adjective) lacking energy; sluggish.
EXAMPLE: Visitors to the zoo are surprised that the lions appear so lethargic, but, in the wild, lions sleep up to 18 hours a day.
SYNONYMS: lazy, apathetic
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner...
Yesterday Scott.T used the word "derrier" in the Personal Milestones 500 thread when he said "I better watch my derrier". Whilst the sentence eluded the meaning, just in case others are just as word challenged as I, it is the word of the day.
A WORD FOR TODAY:
derriere
PRONUNCIATION:
(der-ri-ere)
ETYMOLOGY:
French, behind, from old French, in back of.
MEANING:
Noun - the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
USAGE:
"He deserves a good kick in the butt; are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
SYNONYMS:
arse, ass, behind,buns,buttocks,hind end, hind quarters, keisler, nates, posterior, prat, fanny, rear end, tooshie, tush, seat, fundament, backside, bottom, rump, stem, tail end, rear, bum, can, butt.
Furlozza actually used it the first time, but it is a good candidate for Word of the Day :)
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
A WORD FOR TODAY:
maritorious
As we head towards equality of the sexes, the same word works fine for both. Today one who teaches is simply a teacher, compared to earlier days when we had teachers and teacheresses, depending on their anatomy. This is a good thing: why have two separate words when a person's gender has no bearing on the job? But sometimes separate words are necessary to convey a distinction. This week we'll feature five words that relate specifically to either men or women, and we'll also include words for him or for her.
PRONUNCIATION:
(ma-ri-TOR-ee-uhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Excessively fond of one's husband.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin maritus (married, husband).
NOTES:
The word to describe a husband who is excessively fond of a wife is uxorious. The word maritorious is rare, while uxorious is fairly well known. What does that say about the relative fondness of husbands and wives to each other?
USAGE:
"Dames maritorious ne'er were meritorious."
George Chapman; The Tragedy of Bussy D'Ambois; 1607.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! -Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
patrocliny / patricliny
PRONUNCIATION:
(PA-truh-kli-nee)
MEANING:
noun: Inheritance of traits primarily from the father.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek patro- (father) + klinein (to lean). Ultimately from the Indo-European root klei- (to lean) that is also the source of lean, incline, ladder, lid, client, climate, and climax.
NOTES:
The female counterpart of this term is matrocliny.
USAGE:
"Common to all was the early modern ideal of nobility that prized purity above antiquity; quarterings [joining different coats of arms to symbolize various ancestries] together above patrocliny, and virtue above ethnicity."
William D. Godsey; Nobles and Nation in Central Europe; Cambridge University Press; 2004.
This thread is always an thought-provoking place to start the day!
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
divination
DEFINITION: (noun) the art of predicting the future.
EXAMPLE: In ancient Greece, people wanting to know their fate would visit the priests at Delphi, supposedly skilled at divination.
SYNONYMS: forecast, prediction
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
They're too close to the trees to see the forest. People in California or New York understand that Alaska is not so big. They live in places where the wilderness once seemed limitless, but they know it disappears. -Edgar Wayburn, environmentalist and doctor (b. 1906)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
materfamilias
PRONUNCIATION:
(may-tuhr-fuh-MIL-ee-uhs)
MEANING:
noun: The female head of a family, household, tribe, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin materfamilias, from mater (mother) + familias, from familia (household), from famulus (servant, slave).
NOTES:
Paterfamilias is the masculine equivalent of the word.
USAGE:
"Equally, as materfamilias, she [Queen Elizabeth] will have time to devote to the motherless Prince William, and to groom him for kingship while his father reigns."
Tunku Varadarajan; A New Queen Mum?; The Wall Street Journal (New York, NY); Apr 2, 2002.
"First we have Nora [Nina Poliakoff], materfamilias of the bizarre brood in whose home this absurdist mystery-farce takes place."
K.C. Compton; CSF Opener is a Metaphor For Confusion; Santa Fe New Mexican; Oct 14, 1994.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretences but your own. -Lionel Strachey, writer and translator (1864-1927)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
pseudandry
PRONUNCIATION:
(su-DAN-dree)
MEANING:
noun: The use of a male name as a pseudonym by a woman.
NOTES:
Many women wrote under male pen names because in the 18th and 19th centuries it was considered scandalous for a woman to write a book. The English novelist Mary Ann Evans wrote as George Eliot. Also, in olden times, people didn't take a woman's writing seriously.
The counterpart of pseudandry is pseudogyny where a man takes a woman's name as a pseudonym. The rationale here is that people expect certain genres, such as romance, to be written by women.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek pseudo (false) + andro (male).
USAGE:
"The first volume contains a short commentary by Dagon Khin Khin Lay in which she revealed her pseudandry and confessed that although she wrote these stories she did not believe in things supernatural."
Dagon Khin Khin Lay's Pseudandry; Myanmar Perspectives; 2000.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
arbitrary
DEFINITION: (adjective) based on random or merely personal preference.
EXAMPLE: Both computers cost the same and had the same features, so in the end I made an arbitrary decision about which to buy.
SYNONYMS: approximate, chance
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last minute changes...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
indistinct
DEFINITION: (adjective) unclear, uncertain.
EXAMPLE: We could see boats on the water, but in the thick morning fog their shapes were indistinct.
SYNONYMS: obscure, ambiguous
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
evitable
PRONUNCIATION:
(EV-i-tuh-buhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Capable of being avoided or evaded.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin evitare (to avoid).
USAGE:
"Racers insist they do it 'for the glory', which is a shrewd way of saying they do it for no good reason. This is an Entirely Evitable Event."
Don Kahle; Kinetic Challenge Recalls Rickies; The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon); Jul 18, 2008.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand. -Aharon Barak, law professor, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel (b.1936)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
wieldy
PRONUNCIATION:
(WEEL-dee)
MEANING:
adjective: Easily handled or managed.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English wealdan (to rule). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wal- (to be strong) that gave us the words valiant, avail, valor, and value.
USAGE:
"What Lotus means, of course, is that the Exige [car] is small and wieldy; that it can out-corner a mosquito."
Michael Booth; On Wheels: Lotus Exige S; The Independent (London, UK); Sep 3, 2006.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
exorable
PRONUNCIATION:
(EK-suhr-uh-buhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Capable of being persuaded or moved.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin exorare (to prevail upon), from ex- (out) + orare (to pray, beg).
USAGE:
"Without reform, the result is an exorable middle-class tax increase."
Jonathan Rauch; A Bad Tax With Good Timing; National Journal (Washington, DC); Mar 18, 2006.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. -Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
gainly
PRONUNCIATION:
(GAYN-lee)
MEANING:
adjective: Graceful; dexterous.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old Norse gegn (straight, direct).
USAGE:
"Poor Bob Stanfield. His flub of a football pass during the 1974 election campaign made Gerald Ford look gainly."
Sports and Politicians Are Not Always A Good Mix; Toronto Star (Canada); Jun 12, 2007.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
corrigible
PRONUNCIATION:
(KOR-i-juh-buhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Capable of being corrected.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin corrigere (to correct). Ultimately from the Indo-European reg- (to move in a straight line, to lead or rule) that is also the source of regent, regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, and surge.
USAGE:
"[The regulator] should guide corrigible companies through their weaknesses to become more useful corporate citizens."
Patience Wheatcroft; FSA Should At Least Seek City's Respect; The Times (London, UK); Mar 4, 2005.
Interesting trend here for the word of the day. For most of your recent words we usually use the opposite (e.g. unwieldy, ungainly, inevitable)
You are very observant WY. I obtain most of my quotes and Word for the day from Wordsmith.org but not all the time, sometimes I freelance depending how I feel or time I have on hand. Wordsmith generally has a theme for a week and this week's theme was forgotten positives. The words you quote are of course are all the negative connotations of the base word. evitable - inevitable...
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
A WORD FOR TODAY:
laudatory
DEFINITION: (adjective) giving praise.
EXAMPLE: The ads for the movie are filled with laudatory comments from critics.
SYNONYMS: complimentary
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
contemporary
DEFINITION: (adjective) modern; from the same time.
EXAMPLE: I prefer old-fashioned furniture rather than contemporary styles.
SYNONYMS: current
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults, / Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
dissimulate
PRONUNCIATION:
(di-SIM-yuh-layt)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To disguise one's intentions, thoughts, motives, etc. by pretense.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin dis- (apart, away) + simulare (to simulate), from similis (like). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sem- (one) that is also the source of simultaneous, assemble, simple, Sanskrit sandhi (union), Russian samovar (a metal urn), and Greek hamadryad (a wood nymph).
USAGE:
"Charles Clarke added: 'We need to talk straight to people, engaging the concerns and questions that they have, rather than appearing to evade and dissimulate.'"
Andrew Grice; Clarke: Brown Succession Is Not A Done Deal; The Independent (London, UK); Mar 29, 2007.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Not thinking critically, I assumed that the "successful" prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me. -Dan Barker, former preacher, musician (b. 1949)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
cadge
PRONUNCIATION:
(kaj)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To beg; to obtain by imposing on someone's generosity.
ETYMOLOGY:
Of uncertain origin.
USAGE:
"Sak Nana makes money the old-fashioned way. He earns it. ... He said, 'I wanted to stand on my own feet! People used to assume, incorrectly, that I could always cadge money from my parents.'"
Alfred Tha Hla; Riches to Rags to Revs; Bangkok Post (Thailand); Apr 24, 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To fully understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
A WORD FOR TODAY;
pretermit
PRONUNCIATION:
(pree-tuhr-MIT)
MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To let pass without mention.
2. To suspend or to leave undone.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin praetermittere (to let pass), from praeter (beyond, past) + mittere (to let go, send).
USAGE:
"In fact, the old lady declined altogether to hear his [Rawdon Crawley's] hour's lecture of an evening; and when she came to Queen's Crawley alone, he was obliged to pretermit his usual devotional exercises."
William Makepeace Thackeray; Vanity Fair; 1847.
A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up soemewhere else...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
wend
PRONUNCIATION:
(wend)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To travel along a route.
ETYMOLOGY:
>From Old English wendan.
NOTES:
If you've ever wondered why we have the peculiar form "went" as the past tense of the word go (go, went, gone), today's word is the culprit. "Went" is the archaic past form of "wend". In current usage, the past form of wend is wended. The word is typically used in the phrase "to wend one's way".
USAGE:
"Federal stimulus dollars are starting to wend their way from Washington to Watertown and other communities nationwide."
Erin Ailworth; A Slice of the Stimulus; The Boston Globe; Apr 29, 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Prison: Young Crime's finishing school. -Clara Lucas Balfour, social activist (1808-1878)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
brachiate
PRONUNCIATION:
(verb: BRAY-kee-ayt, BRAK-ee-ayt, adjective: BRAY-kee-it, BRAK-ee-it)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To move by swinging from one hold to another by using arms.
adjective: Having arms.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin brachiatus (having arms), from brachium (arm), from Greek brakhion (upper arm). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mregh-u- (short) that is also the source of brief, abbreviate, abridge, brassiere, and brumal.
USAGE:
"Thick-furred, with a red face, the monkey moves by sprawling out and brachiating from branch to branch through the high forest canopy."
Roger Rosenblatt; Earth's Green Gown; Time (New York); Jun 17, 2004.
"The new superfriends head out on their first missions: the isotope feint and a related museum heist, which allows Sydney to dress in cat-burglar clothes and brachiate around an unguarded exhibition."
Virginia Heffernan; Yet More of One Face in Season 4 of 'Alias'; The New York Times; Jan 5, 2005.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now on and make a brand new ending...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
cognizant
DEFINITION: (adjective) aware, mindful.
EXAMPLE: Cognizant of the fact that it was getting late, the master of ceremonies cut short the last speech.
SYNONYMS: acquainted, conscious
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
indeterminate
DEFINITION: (adjective) not dfinitely known.
EXAMPLE: The college plans to enroll an indeterminate number of students; the size of the class will depend on the number of applicants and how many accept offers of admission.
SYNONYMS: imprecise, inconclusive
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
Clothing -- one of the three necessities in life. No wonder words about clothing and fabrics are woven into our language. There are numerous idioms: people are advised not to wash their dirty linen in public, even adults like to have their security blankets, though emperors often don't have clothes.
The word silken can be used to describe food and voice and touch; from woolgathering to cottonpickin', the list of idiomatic use of fabric words is a long one.
This week we'll look at five terms that make use of fabrics metaphorically.
tweedy
PRONUNCIATION:
(TWEE-dee)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Academic or scholarly.
2. Informal; casual; outdoorsy.
2. Made of or resembling tweed.
ETYMOLOGY:
After tweed, a coarse woolen fabric made in twill weave, preferred in casual wear, for example those in academia or in the country. The origin of the word tweed is not certain. It's probably an alteration of Scots tweel, influenced by the river Tweed that flows along the border between England and Scotland.
USAGE:
"Ramrod-tall, blue-eyed and aquiline, with a high forehead swept clear of thin, fair hair, [William Hurt] even looked clever, like a tweedy young professor of letters on secondment to Hollywood."
Jasper Rees; William Hurt is Back on Top of His Game; The Sunday Times (London, UK); May 3, 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
Flannel
PRONUNCIATION:
(FLAN-l)
MEANING:
noun: Nonsense; evasive talk; flattery.
ETYMOLOGY:
Besides the fabric, the word flannel can refer to a washcloth, an undergarment, or trousers, but here we are interested in its metaphorical sense which apparently developed from the soft and smooth texture of the fabric. The origin of the word flannel remains fuzzy. Two possible derivations have been suggested: from Welsh gwlanen (woolen article) or from Old French flaine (a kind of coarse wool, blanket).
USAGE:
"Commissioned by the Blair economic team, the report is just what the doctor ordered. No flannel. No spin."
Peter Koenig; Honeymoon With the Economy is Over For Blair; The Independent (London, UK); Nov 16, 1997.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell. -Douglas William Jerrold, playwright and humorist (1803-1857)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
woolly
PRONUNCIATION:
(WOOL-ee)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Fuzzy; unclear; confused; vague; disorganized; rough.
2. Of or relating to wool.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English wull.
USAGE:
"Edward Scicluna: This woolly and opaque way of reporting and forecasting must stop."
Charlot Zahra; Is Restarting the Excessive Deficit Procedure Justified? Business Today (Malta); May 13, 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them. -Charles Buxton, brewer, philanthropist, writer and politician (1823-1871)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
cotton
PRONUNCIATION:
(KOT-uhn)
MEANING:
verb intr.:
1. To become fond of; to get on well together.
2. To come to understand (in the phrase "to cotton to" or "cotton on to").
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French and Italian from Arabic qutun (cotton). The idiomatic usage of the term as a verb refers to the mixing of another material, such as wool, with cotton and perhaps from the idea of cotton fiber clinging well to something.
USAGE:
"Marketers and retailers have already cottoned on to the fact that, since the entire culture is defiantly refusing to grow up, parents and children are all now approximately the same age. We've got the same music on our iPods."
Karen von Hahn; I Like to Hang Out With My Teenager; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Sep 1, 2007.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. -Edwin Hubbel Chapin, minister and orator (1814-1880)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
plushy
PRONUNCIATION:
(PLUSH-ee)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Characterized by luxury, extravagance, or ease.
2. Or or related to plush: soft and shaggy.
ETYMOLOGY:
From plush, a fabric of silk, rayon, cotton, or wool, having a long pile. From French pluche, a variant of peluche, from Latin pilus (hair).
USAGE:
"The warm, dark glow and plushy tone so typical of Central European orchestras from the late 19th century on seems steeped in the Staatskapelle's bones."
Wynne Delacoma; Staatskapelle Berlin at Symphony Center; Chicago Sun-Times; Dec 12, 2000.
"But since Hugo left university in June, he has not strolled into the sort of plushy job that supposedly awaits our hordes of upper-second graduates when they roar onto the job market."
Rachel Johnson; Graduates Get Jobs -- But No Pay; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Dec 5, 2003.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
How am I going to lie today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
astute
DEFINITION: (adjective) observant, intelligent, and shrewd.
EXAMPLE: His years of experience in Canberra and his personal acquaintance with many political insiders make him an astute commentator on politics.
SYNONYMS: perceptive, adroit, brainy
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
delegate
DEFINITION: (verb) to give authority or responsibility.
EXAMPLE: The president delegated the vice president to represent the administration at the peace talks.
SYNONYMS: empower, appoint, assign
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others? -Martin Luther King, Jr , civil-rights leader (1929-1968)
A WORD FOR TODAY
We may think only mathematicians or economists or auditors have to deal with numbers, but numbers are everywhere (even in using BOINC). They're in beautiful patterns, they are in the spiral of a mollusk, in the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and beyond.
Though it may not be obvious at first glance, all of this week's words have their origins in numbers.
decussate
PRONUNCIATION:
(verb: di-KUHS-ayt, DEK-uh-sayt, adjective: di-KUHS-ayt, -it)
MEANING:
verb tr.:
To intersect or to cross.
adjective:
1. Intersected or crossed in the form of an X.
2. Arranged in pairs along the stem, each pair at a right angle to the one above or below.
ETYMOLOGY:
The word originated from Latin "as" (plural asses) which was a copper coin and the monetary unit in ancient Rome. The word for ten asses was decussis, from Latin decem (ten) + as (coin). Since ten is represented by X, this spawned the verb decussare, meaning to divide in the form of an X or intersect.
NOTES:
Samuel Johnson, lexicographer extraordinaire, has a well-deserved reputation for his magnum opus "A Dictionary of the English Language", but as they say, even Homer nods. He violated one of the dictums of lexicography -- do not define a word using harder words than the one being defined -- when he used today's word and two other uncommon words in defining the word network:
Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
And what is "reticulated"? Again, according to Johnson:
Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.
USAGE:
"How I wished then that my body, too, if it had to droop and shrivel, for surely everyone's did, would furl and decussate with grace to sculpt the victory of my spirit."
J. Nozipo Maraire; Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter; Delta; 1997.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. -Dante Alighieri, poet (1265-1321)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
hecatomb
PRONUNCIATION:
(HEK-uh-toom, -tom)
MEANING:
noun: A large-scale slaughter.
ETYMOLOGY:
Originally a hecatomb was a public sacrifice and feast of 100 oxen or cattle to the gods in ancient Greece and Rome. The word is derived from Latin hekatombe, from Greek hekatombe, from hekaton (hundred) + bous (ox). Another word derived from bous (ox) is boustrophedon.
USAGE:
"The use of high-tech weapons will result in hecatombs, smart as the US bombs may be."
Lost Values; Kathimerini (Athens, Greece); Mar 17, 2003.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Whoe'er excels in what we prize / Appears a hero in our eyes. -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
atone
PRONUNCIATION:
(uh-TOHN, rhymes with phone)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To make amends for.
ETYMOLOGY:
From the contraction of the phrase "at one" meaning "to be in harmony".
USAGE:
"While society must be protected from those who might pose it a threat, it is vital we let people get on with their lives once they have atoned."
Éamonn Mac Aodha; Minor Offenders Need More Help to Escape Spectre of Past Crime; The Irish Times (Dublin); Apr 28, 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. -Leo Tolstoy, author (1828-1910)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
tessera
PRONUNCIATION:
(TES-uhr-uh; plural tesserae: TES-uhr-ee)
MEANING:
noun: A small piece of stone, glass, or tile used to make a mosaic.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin, from Greek tesseres, variant of tessares (four), from the four corners of its square shape.
USAGE:
"Like red-stained tessera, the remnants of lost lives come together to compose a vast and shocking mosaic of contemporary life."
Art Gould; Piecing It All Together; The Anniston Star (Alabama); May 10, 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. -Jean Anouilh, dramatist (1910-1987)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
decuman
PRONUNCIATION:
(DEK-yoo-muhn)
MEANING:
adjective: Very large.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin decumanus, variant of decimanus (of the tenth), from decimus (tenth), from decem (ten). The word was often applied to waves from the belief that every tenth wave is greater than the others. The word also referred to the main gate of a military camp in ancient Rome. This gate faced away from the enemy and the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed there. A related word is decimate and a dean is, literally speaking, a chief of ten.
USAGE:
"The lover whose soul shaken is
In some decuman billow of bliss."
Francis Thompson; The Way of a Maid; c. 1890.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
abstain
DEFINITION: (verb) to refrain, to hold back.
EXAMPLE: After her heart attack, she was warned by the doctor to abstain from smoking, drinking, and overeating.
SYNONYMS: forbear, forgo, refrain (from)
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over...
A WORD FOR TODAY:
digress
DEFINITION: (verb) to wander from the main path or the main topic.
EXAMPLE: My high school biology teacher loved to digress from science into personal anecdotes about his college adventures.
SYNONYMS: deviate, drift
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. -Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
"When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."
Alice and Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass might as well have been talking about this week's words. While the word "set" has the largest number of meanings -- the Oxford English Dictionary has 26 pages devoted to this little three-letter word -- each of this week's hard-working words has many unrelated meanings that are interesting.
Come to think of it, Alice's one word mean can mean more than one mean word. With this week's words in AWAD Humpty Dumpty is going to have to pay a lot. Let's get our money's worth.
purlicue
PRONUNCIATION:
(PUHR-li-kyu)
MEANING:
noun:
1. The space between the extended forefinger and thumb.
2. A flourish or curl at the end of a handwritten word. Also known as curlicue.
3. A discourse, especially its summarizing part.
ETYMOLOGY:
Of uncertain origin, probably from Scots pirlie (curly).
USAGE:
"Won Li's attentions moved to the weblike purlicue between my thumb and forefinger."
Suzann Ledbetter; A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves; Pocket; 2003.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. -Ivan Goncharov, novelist (1812-1891)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
trammel
PRONUNCIATION:
(TRAM-uhl)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Something that limits or hinders.
2. A fishing net having three layers.
3. An instrument for drawing ellipses.
4. A shackle used in training a horse to amble.
5. An instrument for gauging and aligning parts of a machine.
6. A hook for hanging a pot or a kettle over a fire.
verb tr.: To restrain; to hinder.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French tramail, from Latin tremaculum, from tres (three) + macula (mesh). Ultimately from the Indo-European root trei- (three) that's also the source of such words as three, testify (to be the third person: to bear witness), and triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13).
USAGE:
"John Singleton, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. spokesman, said [the ban on cigarette sales at Boston drugstores and on college campuses] does trammel on businesses' right to sell what they want to sell."
Stephen Smith; Hub Seeks More Bans on Tobacco; The Boston Globe; Sep 4, 2008.
"'Lost in Showbiz asks what constitutes a crisis?' Jonathan Blake continues, free of the trammels of punctuation."
Marina Hyde; Our High Priest of Showbiz Offers Up Some Vehicle Specs; The Guardian (London, UK); Apr 27, 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong. -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
grig
PRONUNCIATION:
(grig)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A cricket or grasshopper.
2. A small or young eel.
3. A lively or lighthearted person.
ETYMOLOGY:
The word is often used in the phrase "merry as a grig". The word is of uncertain origin, though various theories have been suggested, such as a corruption of "merry as a cricket" or "merry as a Greek", as in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Then she's a merry Greek indeed."
USAGE:
"When all is reversed and we shall be like the insane, to whom the antics of the sane seem the crazy twistings of a grig."
EB White; Removal; 1938.
"I walked into my local branch of Boots the Chemists as merry as a grig, with a twinkle in my eye and an annoying whistle on my lips."
The Weasel; Independent (London, UK); Jun 8, 1996.
Quote from: Cruncher Pete on June 04, 2009, 06:57:00 AM
The word is often used in the phrase "merry as a grig".
Yes, hardly a day goes by where I don't hear someone say that ... :rofl:
Quote from: Wang Solutions on June 04, 2009, 02:39:33 PM
Quote from: Cruncher Pete on June 04, 2009, 06:57:00 AM
The word is often used in the phrase "merry as a grig".
Yes, hardly a day goes by where I don't hear someone say that ... :rofl:
No wonder, with that local cheese factory and Brown Bros wine every Wangarite must be as happy as a Greek. :drool: :rofl:
Winery Walkabout this weekend too. :dance2: :drink:
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. -St. Augustine (354-430)
A WORD FOR TODAY:
growler
PRONUNCIATION:
(GROU-luhr)
MEANING:
noun:
1. One that growls.
2. A container (as a pail or pitcher) brought by a customer to fetch beer.
3. A small iceberg.
4. A four-wheeled cab.
5. An electromagnetic device for testing short-circuited coils.
ETYMOLOGY:
From growl, from Middle English groule, grollen (to rumble), probably of imitative origin.
USAGE:
"When Euro-metal comes to mind it can often rouse visions of hairy, horn-helmeted growlers howling about faraway lands and legendary times."
Fawnda Mithrush; Primordial: Thoroughly Modern Metal; Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada); May 7, 2009.
"The two-story building will feature a to-go bar on the first floor for beer aficionados to buy and fill growlers."
Rachael Fisher; Brewing Company on the Move; The Anchorage Daily News (Alaska); May 1, 2009.
"We sailed the 30-mile stretch of the Atlantic Sound, otherwise known as Iceberg Alley. The smaller, granite-hard growlers are to be avoided just as deftly as the enormous floating glacial islands."
Neill Johnston; Cool Cruise Among Ice and Penguins; Birmingham Post (UK); May 15, 2009.
"So this growler will get into Audi R8 territory for about a third of the Audi's $130,000 starting price tag."
Jeremy Cato; New Challenger Even Better; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Feb 19, 2008.
Not quite a thought for today, but a couple of items of historical interest, in memory of another member of historical interest :)
After 35 Years, Another Message Sent From Arecibo
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/23/013255/After-35-Years-Another-Message-Sent-From-Arecibo (http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/23/013255/After-35-Years-Another-Message-Sent-From-Arecibo)
Australia's CSIRO To Launch CPU-GPU Supercomputer
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/23/090213/Australias-CSIRO-To-Launch-CPU-GPU-Supercomputer (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/23/090213/Australias-CSIRO-To-Launch-CPU-GPU-Supercomputer)
And 46 years ago today, Dr Who appeared on TV :)
well, not so much A thought but MANY thoughts. As to if any are apochryphal, you be the judge biggrin
ONE
Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could order 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
So I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
'You don't?' I replied.
'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.
'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'
'That's right.'
I just shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.
(Unbelievable, sadly true...)
TWO
I was checking out at the local Woolworths with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine.
I picked up one of those 'divider' thingy's they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed.
After the girl had scanned all my items, she picked up the 'divider' and looked at it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.
Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'
So I said to her, 'Look, I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'
'OK,' she said, and so I paid for my things and left.
She had no clue what had just happened.
THREE (and it wasn't my wife)
A woman at her workplace was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
When asked what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy.'
(keep shuddering!!)
FOUR
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. 'Do you need some help?' I asked.
She replied, 'I knew I! should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
'Hmmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me.
As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'
FIVE
A mother calls 000 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'But I just gave him some of this ant killer in a packet stuff ....'
Life's tough but it's a damn sight tougher if you're stupid!!
Plus one for brightening my day. :jester:
Ditto!
Vaj
those little "gems" give me brain hope LMAO
+1
I woke up this morning, opened the curtains, looked out upon the world, and promptly Farted................my thought for the day!!!
Did your missus tell you to "stop thinking out loud "..? LOL
:rofl: No, But i wish she would do a little LESS thinking in bed,!!!!!(i mean.....Geeez thats rotten)
There's a quote by a female dwarf in World of Warcraft that covers that one:
"I give myself a Dutch Oven pedicure every night. I've got no foot fungus at all!"
No words or emotes can describe the severe hysterics i am now suffering, &^%*^&%(*^&% :rofl: :dance: :thumbsup:
Future historians will look back at us and wonder why we spent billions of dollars on labour-saving devices, then spend billions more on exercise. ???
:panic: damn to late now :boom:
Okay here is one for the brains trust who love being at the bleeding edge of technology, we know that the 2 way ATI GPU bridge has been crossed with fantastic results, but has anyone had the tenacity or maybe the thousands of dollars lying around to try and do a 3 way NVIDIA GPU setup, imagine 3 seperate GPUS in the one box crunching.
Just a mere challenge to be accepted lol
Regards
Tazzduke
Quote from: tazzduke on November 10, 2010, 01:02:35 AM
:panic: damn to late now :boom:
Okay here is one for the brains trust who love being at the bleeding edge of technology, we know that the 2 way ATI GPU bridge has been crossed with fantastic results, but has anyone had the tenacity or maybe the thousands of dollars lying around to try and do a 3 way NVIDIA GPU setup, imagine 3 seperate GPUS in the one box crunching.
Just a mere challenge to be accepted lol
Regards
Tazzduke
Hi Tazz
I have two Intel machines with three nVidia cards in them. I usually only run two as it is difficult to keep the middle one cool. Also uses a heap of electricity. At GPUGrid, three of them use over one full core to run the cards.
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done,
it's always your choice." -Wayne Dyer
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... biggrin
Had to put the color change specs on to read that one Pete :shock
Quote from: Cosmicvandal on June 22, 2011, 05:52:23 PM
Had to put the color change specs on to read that one Pete :shock
Sorry about that. I am used to writing this kind of thing on a dark background and did not notice that it is not suitable for a light one. Better luck next time...
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine yourself.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... :wink
Be nice if some people would see me the same way!!!, not to worry,
Hey Pete, just to give some people something to think about ,,,why not post your next thought in a different script,,ie: elvish or Klingon or maybe even the script you see in some Futurama episodes,,? find out who the nerds are?
:rofl:
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... biggrin
Quote from: Sean on June 23, 2011, 06:05:26 PM
There are 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and those that don't.
I have only one thing to say, and yes it does translate to words.
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I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... biggrin
Teamwork divides the effort and multiplies the success.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... biggrin
Plus 1 to LawryB for the translation site as I was going to have to sit down and do it hard way one letter at a time, by the way I looked into the futurama script and there are a couple of variations of it and it would have to be composed with the use of graphics similar to emoticons. Here is a Wiki link to emoticons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons
MickL
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... biggrin
First I thought it was a major case of deja vu......
First I thought it was a major case of deja vu......
but then I realised you posted that one a few days back Pete . . .
PHEW !!
PHEW !!
Gee, I must have liked it to repeat it or than again, my age is showing for my memory is fading. It is a good thing sometimes especially when you forget the bad things that happened.. I often think about what Alzheimer's must be thinking themselves. Since they can not remember a lot of things they must live a peaceful life.. Wife to husband:
What is this ATI 5970 means on the credit card dear? I am sorry dear, I can't remember... :jester:
There is no shame in having fallen. Nor any shame in being born into a lowly estate. There is only shame in not struggling to rise. And also shame for not wishing to attain the better. Or not dreaming about it and praying for it. -Samuel Amalu
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... biggrin
"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot
be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours." -O.S. Marden
Keeo on crunching and have a nice day... biggrin
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. -William J.H. Boetcker
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... :cheers:
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... :jester:
"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." -Francis of Assisi
Keeo on crunching and have a nice day... :jester:
"When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world."
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... :jester:
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... :jester:
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... :jester:
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... :jester:
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... :jester:
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... :jester:
To cheer yourself up, you should try cheering someone else up.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... :jester:
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... :jester:
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought for the day 21 Oct 2012:
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
Thought for the day 22 Oct 2012:
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
Thought for the day 23 Oct 2012:
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
Thought for the day 24 Oct 2012:
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what the heck does a humanitarian eat!?
Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
Thought for the day 26 Oct 2012:
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
Thought for the day 27 Oct 2012:
It's always too soon to quit.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
Thought for the day Sun 28 Oct 2012:
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
Thought for the day 30 Oct 2012:
When you are not the lead dog, the view never changes.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
Thought for the day, Wed 31 Oct 2012:
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken
Keep on crunching and have a nice day... biggrin
Thought for the day Sat 3 Nov 2012:
He who throws dirt looses ground...
Kepp on crunching and have a nice day...
Thought for the day Sun 4 Nov 2012:
The true judgement of any person is very connected to the way we see life or judge other persons.
The world is in fact our mirror and through it we look at ourselves,
sometimes we don`t like what we see, so we must stop and reassess our options,
and restart somewhere in the past to find ourselves again
or the guy we once were because we miss him so much...
Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
Thought for the day Mon 5 Nov 2012:
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship
Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
Thought for the day Tue 6 Nov 2012:
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Keep on crunching and have a nice day...