Bussekin blades constantly corrode my bank account! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />................... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Here's to a New Year of Corrosion,Private Klink!
Awaiting my Scrapivore LE....
Then I want a CG.
And a Mudder-handled under 6".
And will keep looking for a SS-4 INFI.
Even if I gotta sell stuff.

Ask me how I REALLY feel!

~Gnarly

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December 08, 2010Word of the Day
RECTRIX \REK-triks\DEFINITION
noun

: any of the quill feathers of a bird's tail that are important in controlling flight direction
EXAMPLES In general, your only chance to see most or all of a bird's rectrices is when the bird is in flight.
"As in other passerines, the juveniles of many species show more pointed rectrix tips than do adults." -- From National Geographic's 2009 book Complete Birds of the World
DID YOU KNOW? Although "rectrix" (from the Latin word "rectrix," the feminine of "rector," meaning "one that directs") has been an English word since the late 18th century, it has clung to its Latin plural "rectrices." This is not terribly unusual for a technical term like "rectrix." (Note also "cilium," whose more common plural "cilia" refers especially to the hairlike extensions on the exterior of some cells.) "Rectrix" has another meaning wholly unrelated to birds. It's also used (albeit rarely) to refer to a woman who rules or governs.


Hum.... maybe in light of the above two posts the word of the days should be

OBSESSION! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

December 09, 2010Word of the Day
BURKE \BERK\DEFINITION
verb

1: to suppress quietly or indirectly
2: bypass, avoid
EXAMPLES The governor attempted to discreetly burke all inquiries into his alleged misuse of state funds.

(Haha, isn't this a headline from the Daily Paper! Just insert CONGRESSMAN!!!)

"Meanwhile, I beg and beseech and instruct and order you, to see that the letter addressed to the Chief of Police is not burked." -- From Percival Christopher Wren's classic adventure novel Beau Geste
DID YOU KNOW? When an elderly pensioner died at the Edinburgh boarding house of William Hare in 1827, the proprietor and his friend William Burke decided to sell the body to a local anatomy school. The sale was so lucrative that they decided to make sure they could repeat it. They began luring nameless wanderers (who were not likely to be missed) into the house, getting them drunk, then smothering or strangling them and selling the bodies. The two disposed of at least 15 victims before murdering a local woman whose disappearance led to their arrest. At Burke's execution (by hanging), irate crowds shouted "Burke him!" As a result of the case, the word "burke" became a byword first for death by suffocation or strangulation and eventually for any cover-up.


Body Odor attempts to Burke any questions he does not have listed on his teleprompter! Hum.... Sounds like Government every day!

Kind of like the birt certificate issue.

EXACTLY what I was thinking!

~Gnarly

December 10, 2010Word of the Day
SHILLY-SHALLY \SHIL-ee-SHAL-ee\DEFINITION
verb

1: to show hesitation or lack of decisiveness or resolution
2: dawdle
EXAMPLES Don't shilly-shally like a fool. Just make up your mind and buy the car.

"When then-gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy met with Tim Bannon a few weeks before Election Day and offered him what could be considered the second most-powerful position in state government, Bannon jumped at the opportunity. 'I didn't have to shilly-shally much in responding to that,' Bannon said of his job as Gov.-elect Malloy's chief of staff." -- From an article by Brian Lockhart, published November 20, 2010 on ctpost.com (Connecticut Post)
DID YOU KNOW? Shall I? Shall I? When you just don't know what to do, it may feel as if asking that question twice will somehow help you decide. The early 1600s saw the use of the phrase "stand shall I, shall I" to describe vacillation or indecision. By 1700, the phrase had been altered to "shill I, shall I," most likely because people just liked the vowel alteration (that's the same process that gave us "dillydally" and "wishy-washy"). Soon after, the adverbial "shilly-shally" made the jump from slang to literature, and by the late 1700s it was being used not only as an adverb, but also as an adjective, a noun, and a verb.


Hum..... Now WHO do we know that exemplifies the epitome of the Shilly-Shally man!

Jeff quickly raises his hand, "I know, I know!"

Jeff, I got a chuckle out of your post! Ok, tell us, but remember that this IS a family forum.

December 11, 2010Word of the Day
COMITY\ KAH-muh-tee\DEFINITION
noun

: friendly civility : courtesy
EXAMPLES In the interests of neighborhood comity, everyone agreed to a block-wide tag sale.

"Two years after an election that seemed to portend a new era of comity, American politics has resumed what now appears to be its permanent condition of polarization, quite possibly worsened by widening rifts within the two major parties." -- From an essay by Sam Tanenhaus in The New York Times, October 24, 2010
DID YOU KNOW? "Our country soweth also in the field of our breasts many precious seeds, as … honest behavior, affability, comity," wrote English clergyman Thomas Becon in 1543. Becon's use is the earliest documented appearance of "comity" -- a word derived from Latin "comitas," meaning "courteousness" (and probably related to the Sanskrit word for "he smiles"). "Comity" is largely used in political and judicial contexts. Since 1862 "comity of nations" has referred to countries bound by a courteous relationship based on mutual recognition of executive, legislative, and judicial acts. And, in legal contexts, "comity" refers to the recognition by courts of one jurisdiction of the laws and judicial decisions of another.


I think that everyone here tries their level best to practice COMITY toward each other in everything that we say and do.

** As a personal note, This place gives me hope in the knowledge that not EVERYONE in the world is power hungry, Greedy uncaring people. I mean How many times have you knowwn (not counting here) that someone, a total stranger has given another a present of something worth $20.00, $85.00 OR MORE. Or gone out of their way to make something for (FREE OF CHARGE) someone they don't know and may possibly may never meet.

THANK YOU YARD, for allowing me to become one of your number.

AMEN to that!

~Gnarly

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