Administrators Gail Posted August 10, 2009 Administrators Posted August 10, 2009 Gail, what is the puppie's name? Kimbo? The pup's name is Spooky :) Quote Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Administrators Gail Posted August 10, 2009 Administrators Posted August 10, 2009 dAb, it is so refreshing to see you here again! I love the things you post! Quote Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
D. Allan Posted August 10, 2009 Author Posted August 10, 2009 Thank you, Gail. There is so much on the web with Facebook, Flickr, plus so much to do in in 'actual' life: mow the lawn, fix this and that, practice, paint, draw, .... I'm getting overwhelmed... I'm off for a stroll with my camera, now. You are alway refreshing, Gail! Wish you and Russ would move to Orange City, and come over for dinner. dAb Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Guest Posted August 10, 2009 Posted August 10, 2009 Thank you, Gail. There is so much on the web with Facebook, Flickr, plus so much to do in in 'actual' life: mow the lawn, fix this and that, practice, paint, draw, .... I'm getting overwhelmed... I'm off for a stroll with my camera, now. You are alway refreshing, Gail! Wish you and Russ would move to Orange City, and come over for dinner. dAb Hey Dab, what do you practice? Quote
D. Allan Posted August 10, 2009 Author Posted August 10, 2009 Piano, Richard. I have neglected her for the past 12 + mos. (had an affair with a computor.) Now Piano and I must renew our 'relationship'. She is a faithful friend. Acutally a soulmate, I must say, who keeps the key to my soul, in her pocket. dAb Richard had asked me what I practiced but now I don't see his query. It was a reasonable question, Richard, I should have been more specific. dAb Oh now I, see it. Right in front of my nose. Excuse me, Richard. My psychiatrist says my mind runs too fast and makes me absent-minded, etc. Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Administrators Gail Posted August 10, 2009 Administrators Posted August 10, 2009 I'd love to come visit one day! That's after I get my car paid off, that is! The WOTD that came to my computer today was, "caboose". My husband told me that I have a nice caboose. Funny, but I couldn't find that definition in there when I looked it up... LOL Quote Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
D. Allan Posted August 10, 2009 Author Posted August 10, 2009 After you pay of your car? Well just be sure you don't buy another one!!! I think you have an appreciative husband. LOL dAb Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Guest Posted August 10, 2009 Posted August 10, 2009 Piano, Richard. I have neglected her for the past 12 + mos. (had an affair with a computor.) Now Piano and I must renew our 'relationship'. She is a faithful friend. Acutally a soulmate, I must say, who keeps the key to my soul, in her pocket. dAb I need to get back to my guitar instead of this computer. We've been carrying on for 31 years. Quote
D. Allan Posted August 11, 2009 Author Posted August 11, 2009 Well, great! At least you can carry her with you and carry-on anywhere! Miss Piano is a little on the heavy side, but she sure can cook. What kind of music does your guitar give you? Folk, country, rock, classical, all of the above? Chopin said that there is only one thing more beautiful than a guitar and that is two guitars. :) Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Guest Posted August 11, 2009 Posted August 11, 2009 What I play best is Rock, which is probably why I don't play much anymore. Since I have come back into the faith my taste in music is changing. I have fairly recently returned. Quote
D. Allan Posted August 16, 2009 Author Posted August 16, 2009 ruly (ROO-lee). adjective obedient, neat, orderly, well behaved "ruly" and "unruly" come from "reuly," a Middle English word meaning "disciplined." "Reuly" in turn comes from Middle English "reule," a predecessor of "rule." –Merriam Webster related words: rulier ruliest unruly, antonym of ruly It's illicit but that only adds to the joys of having a phone cord that is both limber and ruly. The telephone company absolutely forbids its subscribers to use any device in connection with a telephone instrument, so here we sit enjoying our forbidden fruit… - E. B. White, Comment, The New Yorker, July 11, 1931 Within 30 minutes, they gathered, spoke words of inspiration and disbanded. No fights. No arrests. Just a very ruly crowd of lawyers, most of whom were not from Pakistan. –Winter Miller, ‘Lawyers Rally in Support Of Colleagues in Pakistan,’ NYTimes, Nov. 14, 2007 But then, all at once, for some apparent reason, she looked in my direction and smiled in a way that I could make heads or tails of. So, after a terminable delay, I acted with mitigated gall and made my way through the ruly crowd with strong givings. –Jack Winters, Shouts & Murmurs, “How I Met My Wife,” The New Yorker, July 25, 1994 p.82 Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
olger Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Me too. It was on .... a...Thursday. g Quote "Please don't feed the drama queens.."
D. Allan Posted August 17, 2009 Author Posted August 17, 2009 deprefixer noun A person who drops the prefix from a word which is normally used with it. related: to deprefix, verb The following quotation from the NYTIMES is from an article by William Safire, the noteable word-guru. Let us feel free to become deprefixers also if thereby we can make our speech more interesting and perhaps even more lucid. “…the leading muse of the Deprefixers, the poet Felicia Lamport. In both her ''Scrap Irony'' and ''Light Metres,'' she deprefixed furiously. Ms. Lamport, now 83, graciously gave me permission through her husband to run her pioneering play: ‘'Life would be such a nice broglio Running so smoothly and mok, If I had a nice portfolio Full of negotiable stock. And if it were tax-exempt, I would be gruntled and kempt.' But that was only getting started. Then came such an outpouring of deprefixed delight not since matched: 'Nothing gives rise to such wild surmise/As the peachable widow with consolate eyes.' And: 'The iquitous girl often loses her balance/When wooed by a man with unusual chalance.' And: 'Men often pursue in suitable style/The imical girl with the scrutable smile.' “ -William Safire, ‘On Language’ NYTimes, April 11, 1999 Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
D. Allan Posted August 18, 2009 Author Posted August 18, 2009 perseveration , (pehr-sehv-RAYSHn) noun Psychology. Continued or repetitive activity or actions: a. the uncontrollable repetition of a word, phrase or gesture b. The spontaneous recurrence of a thought, image, phrase, or tune in the mind. -American Heritage Dictionary A tendency to repeat the response to an experience in later situations where it is not appropriate. –Encarta Dictionary “….usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.” - wikipedia 1. the tendency of an idea, impression, experience, etc. to persist or recur, or of an individual to continue a particular mental activity without the ability to shift easily to another at a change in stimulus 2. Psychiatry the persistent and pathological repetition of a verbal or motor response, often seen in organic brain disease and schizophrenia-yourdictionary.com related: perseverate, verb Usages: “And though perseverance can be an admirable trait and is essential for all success in life, when taken too far it becomes perseveration — uncontrollable repetition — or simple perversity.” -Natalie Angier, NYTimes, August 17, 2009 “As the film's narrator explains, the passenger is suffering from a handicap that causes perseveration -the repeated asking of questions to alleviate intense anxiety.” -NYTimes, Feb. 1, 1981 “ ‘Bolero’ is an exercise in compulsivity, structure and perseveration,” Dr. Miller said. It builds without a key change until the 326th bar. Then it accelerates into a collapsing finale. –NYTimes, April 8, 2008 “Pooh's perseveration on food and his repetitive counting behaviors raise the diagnostic possibility of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Given his coexisting ADHD and OCD, we question whether Pooh may over time present with Tourette's Syndrome.” NYTimes, Feb. 4, 2001 “The preservation or recurrence of images in the visual field after removal of the real stimulus is called ‘palinopsia’ or ‘visual perseveration’ which can be split up into three different types according to the latency between the real external stimulus and its apparent recurrence.” -Ch. Lefebre, H.W. Kölmel, as quoted in The New Yorker Magazine, Aug. 18, 2009 Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Guest Posted August 19, 2009 Posted August 19, 2009 alliteration, broken record, chant, chorus, copy, echo, encore, ingemination, iteracy, iterance, iteration, litany, paraphrase, periodicity, practice, reappearance, recapitulation, recital, recurrence, redundancy, rehearsal, reiteration, relation, renewal, reoccurrence, repeat, repetitiousness, replication, report, reproduction, restatement, return, rhythm, rote, staccato, tautology Quote
Zeta Posted August 19, 2009 Posted August 19, 2009 Okay, Holbrook make a sentence using those words. Make it good. Quote Be Blessed.
Moderators John317 Posted August 19, 2009 Moderators Posted August 19, 2009 It's a tautology to say that Adam was with Eve at the time she gave him the fruit. It would be the same thing if I said I was with my mother at the time of my birth. Quote John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. [17] For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Guest Posted August 19, 2009 Posted August 19, 2009 The alliteration of the broken record was like a chant or a chorus that I could copy and echo throughout the encore. Quote
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