Not a stamp collecter...but I have a few scary-looking 'letter-openers'!

(Tongue firmly in cheek),

~Gnarly

Based upon the post of another Dawg, I am giving you this freebie. It's not a word, but a phrase. See if you can guess what it means, in a FAMILY FRIENDLY way.

OCCULAR RECTALITIS

I am not into philatley of the US Post Office Muslim inscribed stamps.

For a medical standpoint,perhaps you meant: OCULAR RECTITIS,which is a sh***y outlook,caused by HUB Syndrome (Head Up Butt).

It also means,"I simply can't ever see my a** doing that!"

Or perhaps you meant: CRANIAL RECTITIS,which is the same as HUB Syndrome.

Mayhaps you meant: CRANIAL ERECTOTOMY,which is a medical procedure for extraction someone's head from their a**.

I should mention these are common phrases I hear being used daily,with vehemence,or just in mirth.

~Gnarly

I LIKE those Gnarly! Only one I've ever heard is the one I put posted about. THANKS!

December 18, 2010Word of the Day
COHESIVE \koh-HEE-siv\DEFINITION
adjective

: exhibiting or producing a condition in which people or things are closely united
EXAMPLES Theirs was a cohesive and loving family, sticking together through bad times and good.

"Put simply, arts and culture initiatives are essential to creating vibrant, prosperous and socially cohesive communities." -- From an article by Neil Darwin in Local Government Chronicle (LGC), September 30, 2010
DID YOU KNOW? Our first example sentence contains a hint about the "sticky" origins of today's word -- "cohesive" ultimately derives from Latin "haerēre," meaning "to stick." Other descendants of "haerēre" in English include "adhere" ("to stick"), "inhere" ("to belong by nature or habit"), and even "hesitate." "Haerēre" teamed up with the prefix "co-" to form "cohaerēre," an ancestor of "cohesive," "cohesion" ("a sticking together"), "cohere" ("to stick together"), and "coherent" ("able to stick together" or "logically consistent"). Quiz content:


We the people and the Government needs to be a COHESIVE unit. That way the country CAN get better for everyone!

WELTER \WEL-ter\DEFINITION
verb

1: writhe, toss; also : wallow
2: to become deeply sunk, soaked, or involved
3: to be in turmoil
EXAMPLES Seasick passengers took to their cabins as the ship weltered upon the waves of the stormy sea.

"No wonder you weltered about for years in depression, addiction, serial unemployment, fragmentation, futility." -- From Sarah Gabriel's 2009 memoir Eating Pomegranates
DID YOU KNOW? "Welter" can be used both as a noun (meaning "turmoil" or "chaos") and a verb. Which part of speech is older? The verb. It has been part of English since at least the 1300s, while the earliest uses of the noun date from the late 1590s. Both noun and verb have roots related to Dutch and Germanic terms meaning "to roll," and both have found a place in English literature. The verb helps demonstrate extreme despair in the early Arthurian legend Morte Arthure ("He welterys, he wristeles, he wrynges hys handes!"), and in 1837 Thomas Carlyle used the noun in The French Revolution ("I leave the whole business in a frightful welter: … not one of them understands anything of government").

Many times because of the inability of congress to make a decision we, the citizens are left to Welter, unable to coerce congress to actually do something USEFUL!

And,as my Father said many times:"The quickest way to accomplish nothing at all is to form a committee!"

~Gnarly

Sounds like he had HIS eye on the government (or the military)!

You know, upon reflection I think that your father AND I are both wrong.

Just let THEM propose a fact finding committee to explore the prospects of Increasing trade to Thailand and they will fight their way to get on it! Fighting is doing something isn't it?

Of course would mean a TRIP to Thailand.

Was a retired History teacher...

Wish I'd listened more.

~Gnarly

Sorry Gnarly, couldn't resist. I Agree with your original "committee" post COMPLETELY!