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Violin for God
Luke, I am your father. --Nooooooooo!!!!!
Date Joined Dec 2004
Total Posts : 690
|  Posted 8/9/2006 11:15 PM (GMT -6) |   | We've been talking about serious topics, but how about a little humor for a sec. I was looking in a book, Words you Thought you Knew..., to see if the words "polity" or "political" were in there. They weren't, but here are some other entries I came across (just when we thought we knew the words we're using...  Or... maybe you knew all along, but, heh, I didn't!  ) Enjoy!
The following entries are quoted right from the book:
pithy: I always thought this meant something like flaky, so when a friend of mine asked me for a pithy quote, I was offended. But, no! My friend was asking for a succinct, clever quote: something that gets across its meaning in few words: The govenor's pithy comments made it clear that he - or at least his speechwriter - was opposed to the death penalty.
pontificate: When people say, "I'm just pontificating," what they usually mean to say is "I'm just guessing." Little do they know that what they're really saying is, "I'm just being a pompous, arrogant jerk." To pontificate is to express your opinion like a know-it-all. In the Roman Catholic religion, pontificate also means to do the job of a pontiff - the pope. The assistant interim public defender's law clerk pontificated about the court case as if he were the judge. (Heather's note: I just thought this was a little funny... maybe my sense of humor's just wierd.)
Any words you see often misused nowadays?
[As Bill and Ted approach Socrates]: Bill: "Yo Ted, say something profound, dude."
Ted: "Oh, yeah. Right. All we are...is dust in the wind dude."
Bill: ..."Dust".... "Wind" ... "Duuuude".
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Corey
Five with a Four-wing
Date Joined Feb 2003
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| Posted 8/10/2006 11:23 AM (GMT -6) | | | | |
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Violin for God
Luke, I am your father. --Nooooooooo!!!!!
Date Joined Dec 2004
Total Posts : 690
| Posted 8/10/2006 6:10 PM (GMT -6) | | Tolerance vs. acceptance. Many kids don't really understand the difference nowadays. Also while doing my wannabe-teacher studies I met some people in those programs (and even the teacher of my multicultural studies class) who confused the two words.
[As Bill and Ted approach Socrates]:
Bill: "Yo Ted, say something profound, dude."
Ted: "Oh, yeah. Right. All we are...is dust in the wind dude."
Bill: ..."Dust".... "Wind" ... "Duuuude".
Socrates: (gasping in awe) "Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives." | | Back to Top | | |
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Violin for God
Luke, I am your father. --Nooooooooo!!!!!
Date Joined Dec 2004
Total Posts : 690
| Posted 8/10/2006 6:11 PM (GMT -6) | | And Don, that's pretty funny. Run away! Take cover!
[As Bill and Ted approach Socrates]:
Bill: "Yo Ted, say something profound, dude."
Ted: "Oh, yeah. Right. All we are...is dust in the wind dude."
Bill: ..."Dust".... "Wind" ... "Duuuude".
Socrates: (gasping in awe) "Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives." | | Back to Top | | |
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Violin for God
Luke, I am your father. --Nooooooooo!!!!!
Date Joined Dec 2004
Total Posts : 690
| Posted 8/11/2006 3:27 AM (GMT -6) | | Les autres mots qui sont confondus souvent sont « jaloux » et « envieux » et « convoite ». Par exemple, Tout de nous sommes envieux de Tom de sa supérieure prouesse linguistique.
[As Bill and Ted approach Socrates]:
Bill: "Yo Ted, say something profound, dude."
Ted: "Oh, yeah. Right. All we are...is dust in the wind dude."
Bill: ..."Dust".... "Wind" ... "Duuuude".
Socrates: (gasping in awe) "Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives." | | Back to Top | | |
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Violin for God
Luke, I am your father. --Nooooooooo!!!!!
Date Joined Dec 2004
Total Posts : 690
| Posted 8/11/2006 3:32 AM (GMT -6) | | And Corey, one thing that's a bit scary about the word "like" is that there are, like, so many college, like, memories attached to, like, that word, ya know? I had, like, a roommate from, like, "the valley", like, near L.A., and, like, when my parents and brother, like, came and visited me, like, there, they, like, started to, like, tease me for picking up, like, this way of talking. It was, like, almost this bad. Like, really!
I finally got to the point of asking friends to hit me on the arm when I said that word out of context... but few actually were willing to. A hard habit to break. But then again, I'm blond... so I guess I was allowed to play it up! Like, gag me with a credit card! (My own invention, thank you very much  )
When you read the word "like" that many times, doesn't it start to look like it's sorta misspelled?
[As Bill and Ted approach Socrates]:
Bill: "Yo Ted, say something profound, dude."
Ted: "Oh, yeah. Right. All we are...is dust in the wind dude."
Bill: ..."Dust".... "Wind" ... "Duuuude".
Socrates: (gasping in awe) "Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives." | | Back to Top | | |
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might-be-don
Registered Member
Date Joined Jun 2001
Total Posts : 830
| Posted 8/11/2006 11:42 AM (GMT -6) | | Just a few for fun ...
potonwheel, "I think that in the fun of internet discussions I can too easily loose sight of that."
gregboyd, "a) There are plenty of passages that can be most easily interpreted to teach that one CANNOT loose their salvation."
gregboyd, "b) There are plenty of passages that can most easily be interpreted to teach that one CAN loose their salvation.
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potonwheel, ( two for the price of one ) "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but loose his own sole."
potonwheel, "And then here is the reality of the Kingdom. You don't loose your church membership when you die!"
starkman, "John, then, is simply saying that one who is really born of God isn't able to live "in" the flesh. He may fight with it, loose a battle here and there (or, perhaps, a lot of battles), but it's the heart that's the issue. "
gregboyd, " In the east, the ideal is to loose individuality and become the one."
gregboyd, "It "works" because it shows he may have to loose pieces (problem of evil), even though he's assured of final check mate"
torkuda, "Others say, that it is possible to fall away from grace once it is recieved. Course very few of them can say exactly what one would do to loose salvation so I suppose they must live their lives in fear."
The world's perfect, wouldn't change a thing.
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