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At the museum the masters paintings are filled with zaftig bodies, make some of us wish we lived in an earlier age.
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At the museum the masters paintings are filled with zaftig bodies, make some of us wish we lived in an earlier age.
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Another quadrennial chore is replacing the incumbent oaf in the White House. Why can't we ever pick political leaders based on merit? When is the last time we had a president who wouldn't have been over his head trying to be mayor of a moderate-sized town? When is the last time we had a president who was qualified to do anything better than work in the mail room at GM?
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My courseware teaches me that Mexico was grief-stricken when the Titanic sank, because the ship was meant to sail on to Veracruz after stopping in New York, and it carried a huge consignment of mayonnaise. The Mexicans had been so eagerly anticipating the improvement in their sandwiches, that when they heard the Titanic had sunk, their keen disappointment led them to declare a day of national mourning that they observe to this day. They called it "Sinko-de-Mayo."
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Negligence in the performance of a duty or claiming an opportunity, especially the failure to assert a legal claim in time, that makes it invalid.
[From Middle English lachesse, from Anglo French, from Middle French laschesse, from Old French lasche (slack), ultimately from Latin laxare (to loosen).]
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Sorry I'm a few days late on this but I am new to the site and BRAND new to "Word of the Day" - Was it Tenzing Norgay who said, "We Sherpas were schleppers for Edmund on Everest"? If not, it should have been
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Dateline: Boston, January 23, 2003: Recently elected Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney today issued a mittimus for the arrest and incarceration of talk show host Don Imus, for alleged "crimes against good taste." An appeal is expected.
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His skull was dented by the uxorial rolling pin, but it made no difference in his state of consciousness since he was feeling no pain anyway.
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Oops! Nobody did anything for May 12. OK, "The knot on his head was a memento of the uxorial rolling pin."
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Connie Chung was looking for something funky to bring back from her trip to Ecuador so she picked up a novelty shrunken head. She calls it her 'memento maury.'
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Zal, all alone in a Siberia of wry humor, cries out, "Where are my props people? Someone show me the love!"
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When the KGB leader, Beria, ordered his secret agent in Spain to track down a defector who had escaped to that country, the agent replied, "Si, Beria."
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I am a pilot, and last week i was flying a cargo plane over Siberia and we crashed; because it is so cold in Siberia i looked to find something warm only to realize my shipment was boxes full of lingerie.
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When silentbob106 crashed the plane in Siberia, we all thought we would freeze, but then we found that we were right next to a lido for the polar bear club.
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But when silentbob106 waddled into the Polar Bear Club swaddled with layers and layers of lingerie, we all laughed until our sides hurt so bad we had to be administered lidocaine.
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A clue or key that helps in understanding of a previously insolvable puzzle.
[After Rosetta stone, a black basalt stone tablet found in 1799 near Rosetta in northern Egypt in the Nile river delta. The tablet, now held in the British Museum, has the same message written in two languages (Egyptian and Greek) using three different scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek). Discovery of this tablet, dating from 196 BC, made possible the interpretation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.]
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Will the human genome really be the Rosetta stone we've been searching for in the fight against cancer?
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quote: He looked deep into her eyes. She was hot. Wore a black leather jacket. Thin cause she smoked so many Gauloise Blondes. And a mind that would not quit. A grad student in linguistics. Undergrad in comp lit AND classics from UC Santa Cruz. Could wrap her tongue and throat around any sound or syllable from Farsi to Tagalog. He leaned in a little closer. "Jenny," he whispered. "Will you be my personal Rosetta Stone?" She laughed. Well, snorted really. "How long did it take you to come up with that one?"
A pause. He squirmed. It had been completely impromptu. Had popped into his head and come out of his mouth like he was expecting some zenith of a moment. "Damn," he thought. "Where's the rewind?"
"No I will most emphatically not be your personal Rostta Stone," she said. "I will not be your personal anything. This relationship will not be based on ownership. You know how I feel about..."
He didn't hear the rest of what she said because he was counting her tobacco-stained teeth.
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The word of the day for Friday May 15, 2002 is:
pharos (FAR-os) noun
A lighthouse.
[After Pharos, a peninsula in Northern Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea, site of an ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.]
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congruous • \KONG-groo-uss\ • (adjective) 1 a : being in agreement, harmony, or correspondence *b : conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation : appropriate 2 : marked or enhanced by harmonious agreement among constituent elements
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There were two clubs in that part of Bucharest--the Lido and the Pharos. I knew it wasn't congruous with the black tag on my chest, but I had a greenie fresh out of the MTC who was going to keel over with hunger if we didn't get something to eat and soon, so we stepped in to the Lido. While we were gulping down chorba de perishoare, the floor show started.
Damn! I had forgotten about that aspect of the Lido. "Elder," I said. "Keep your eyes in your soup bowl." I'm going to go have them wrap our pork steaks to go.
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