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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:45 pm
by Jude
well someone said something and we all had a laugh.....
So hope you all have a wonderful weekend.... I am resting my back - slightly overdone it today - i need to know a good long word for overdoing things, that is not an oximoronic statement...
Us Jews gotta start cooking for Purim starts on Monday - luckily that isn't so much cooking as starving! Fast of Esther... but the food binge starts on Tu
esday hic!!!
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:39 am
by Richard Ruck
Slightly more scientific today:
anagenesis
• noun [mass noun] Biology - species formation without branching of the evolutionary line of descent.
— derivatives
anagenetic adjective.
— origin late 19th cent.: from ana- and genesis.
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:32 pm
by englishangel
Richard Ruck wrote:Slightly more scientific today:
anagenesis
• noun [mass noun] Biology - species formation without branching of the evolutionary line of descent.
— derivatives
anagenetic adjective.
— origin late 19th cent.: from ana- and genesis.
Sounds a bit X-men to me.
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:37 am
by Jude
my word of the day : Peroration
substantive, to close or terminate, finish, terminus,
verb : to end; close, finish, expire, terminate
phrase : "to cut the matter short!
adjective : ending, clsoing etc.
Adverbs : once for all, in the fine, finally
as according to Roget's Thesaurus, cat number 67
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:59 pm
by Richard Ruck
I think most of us will have known this one;
nonet
• noun a group of nine people or things, especially musicians.
• a musical composition for nine voices or instruments.
— origin mid 19th cent.: from Italian nonetto, from nono ‘ninth’, from Latin nonus.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:19 pm
by 99yorkpj
Whammy
'A devastating set-back'
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:24 pm
by cj
99yorkpj wrote:Whammy
'A devastating set-back'
Or an afficionado of the 80's popular music combo? Bad boys stick together, never sad boys. Doo doo doo doo doo, a woo woo.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:27 pm
by 99yorkpj
cj wrote:99yorkpj wrote:Whammy
'A devastating set-back'
Or an afficionado of the 80's popular music combo? Bad boys stick together, never sad boys. Doo doo doo doo doo, a woo woo.
liking it..!
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:34 pm
by cj
99yorkpj wrote:cj wrote:99yorkpj wrote:Whammy
'A devastating set-back'
Or an afficionado of the 80's popular music combo? Bad boys stick together, never sad boys. Doo doo doo doo doo, a woo woo.
liking it..!
I was a Durannie, though ...
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:56 pm
by Richard Ruck
'Cottager' - a follower of George Michael's post-Wham solo career....
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:17 pm
by Hendrik
What's white, sticky and runs down toilet walls?
George Michaels latest release.
Emma told me that one on my third form (98) when it was more relevant.
Along with:
There was a young man from Dundee,
Who went to the cliff for a pee.
But as soon as he started,
the silly ars* farted,
and blew himself into the sea.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:55 pm
by 99yorkpj
Hendrik wrote:What's white, sticky and runs down toilet walls?
George Michaels latest release.
Emma told me that one on my third form (98) when it was more relevant.
Along with:
There was a young man from Dundee,
Who went to the cliff for a pee.
But as soon as he started,
the silly ars* farted,
and blew himself into the sea.
Lovely. Just when was it you left 3rd form??!
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:53 am
by Richard Ruck
Right, back to the words:
benedicite
• noun a blessing, especially a grace said at table in religious communities.
• (the Benedicite) the canticle used in the Anglican service of matins beginning ‘O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord’, the text being taken from the Apocrypha.
— origin Latin, ‘bless ye!’, plural imperative from benedicere ‘wish well’; the first word of the canticle in Latin.
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:34 pm
by cj
Matins is lovely as a sung service (on a par with sung evensong? There's a debate!) with some gorgeous settings of the canticles, the Benedicite and Jubilate.
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:31 pm
by midget
cj wrote:Matins is lovely as a sung service (on a par with sung evensong? There's a debate!) with some gorgeous settings of the canticles, the Benedicite and Jubilate.
Loved the smiley! It reminded me of our first French teacher- a lot of people joined in LIV,so missed out on a year's worth and had to do 2 years in 1. We were taught by someone whose name I forget (she usually taught German) and made us practise vowel sounds using exaggerated mouth movements-we must have looked just like your lovely smileys