Surely this idiot could not have imagined that each couple would produce an average of 2 children per year. Also to follow such a progression these couples woul have to produce childen not only at such a rate but eventually at a rate of one child per adult plus one child per child produced.
is able to meet the demands of the western consuming public! Who would have thunk it!
hj
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BILLINGSGATE (BIL-ingz-gayt) n.:coarsely abusive language
"A steady stream of billingsgate could be heard coming from the basement after my father hit his thumb with his hammer." :finger:
" Dr. Franklin said that it was the worse case of billingsgate he have ever seen."
Did you know?From the time of the Roman occupation until the early 1980s, Billingsgate was a fish market in London, England, notorious for the crude language that resounded through its stalls. In fact, the fish merchants of Billingsgate were so famous for their swearing that their feats of vulgar language were recorded in British chronicler Raphael Holinshed's 1577 account of King Leir (which was probably Shakespeare's source for _King Lear_). In Holinshed's volume, a messenger's language is said to be "as bad a tongue ... as any oyster-wife at Billingsgate hath." By the middle of the 17th century, "billingsgate" had become a byword for foul language.
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Self-esteem
Pat yourself on the back if you already knew February is International Boost Self-Esteem Month. The phrase self-esteem is much older than we moderns might expect; as long ago as the 1600s, folks were using self-esteem to refer to "self-respect" or to "a confidence and satisfaction in oneself." That's the way English poet John Milton used it when he wrote, "Oft-times nothing profits more / Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right / Well-managed."
American feminist Gloria Steinem took a page out of Milton's book when she recalled, "I began to understand that self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it."
French essayist Michel de Montaigne shared Steinem's perspective; he wrote "Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being." In the view of British novelist William Hale White, "Blessed are they who heal us of self-despising. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious."
How does one attain self-esteem? That question still inspires plenty of debate, but we can offer this bracing guidance from Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle. He believed, "nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment." And we'll end with these encouraging words from French philosopher Jean Guitton: "We are all primary numbers, divisible only by ourselves."
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Wishington Why a liberal travels to the East coast (if not already located there). Anderson Dictionary of Conservative words.
WISHINGTONS (wish-ing-tons) n.: The act or an instance of deliberate or extended wishful thinking.
"How come the ‘man/woman of my dreams’ can never be found when I’m awake???"
"I can’t wait for retirement so I can relax and live it up on my Social Security."
"I don’t know when and I don’t know how, but someday soon someone else is going to need to buy the donuts."
"Time eventually heals all mis-understanings."
"If only I had a bigger house, another car, a slite lamp and a phoropher, I'd see my way clear to be happy."
"I’m tired of thinking …how about someone else taking a turn. "
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VENIAL (vE’-nE-uhl) adj.: excusable, insignificant,pardonable,forgivable
Venial comes form a Latin word for forgiveness and is related to Venus, the Roman goddess of love. Venial is used of faults or sins that are not serious enough to require punishment, those that are easily pardonable. In Roman Catholic theology, venial sins are contrasted with mortal sins. A venial sin is a minor offense against divine law, while a mortal sin is a serious offense that merits eternal punishment.
“These venial faults are not worth punishing: just explain to her what she did wrong.”
“He thought his offense was venial but apparently those in charge felt it merited expulsion.”
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PESSIMISM (pes-si-mism) n.: an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome.
Sample sentance: “Pessimism is for insects.”
Arthus Schopenhauer, born in 1788, is nicknamed the philosopher of pessimism. Credit goes to Schopenhauer for Schopenhauerism, which teaches that essential or absolute reality is a blind and restless will manifesting itself as a will to live. . . and that life is an evil curable only by overcoming the will to live.
He didn’t believe that people have individual wills but rather we are simply part of a vast and single will that pervades the universe - “the cosmic will is wicked… and the source of endless suffering.” Schopenhauer saw that life itself is painful, manifested in aimlessness and dissatisfaction.
His pessimism so affected his mother's social guests, who would disperse after his lengthy discourse on the uselessness of everything, that she finally forbade him her home. He was, however, considered by some to be a brillient conversation "his audience, consisting of a small circle of friends, would often listen to him until midnight. He never seemed to tire of talking, even during his last days."
Schopenhauer's view of women: “(they) are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and teachers of our early childhood by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted; in a word, they are big children all their life long. They are an "undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short legged race ... they have no proper knowledge of any; and they have no genius." It goes without saying that Schopenhauer never married.
Although Schopenhauer clearly had his dark side, but for every “dark” there is a “light”
"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."
"We forfeit three-fourths of our selves to be like other people"
“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.”
“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”
"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world."
And my personal favorite – “Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”
Have a great day…..
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RATIOCINATIVE (ra·ti·o·ci·na·tive) adj.: ) Of, relating to, marked by, or skilled in methodical and logical reasoning, a reasoned train of thought.
Synonyms: logical, analytice, and rational - These adjectives mean capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning: a logical mind; an analytic thinker; a rational being.
Antonyms: Illogical contradicting or disregarding the principles of logic, without logic; senseless.
Example sentence:
"Darris, known for his keen sense of humor as well as his ratiocinative debate, reached a point where he could bear it no longer and put an end to the mind numbing illogical discussion."
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CABBAGE (KAB-ij) v.: steal, filch
Example sentence:
"In the late 18th-century play, The Reconciliation, Mrs. Grim confesses that she "now and then cabbaged a penny."
"I readily admit that I've been known to cabbage a quote."
"Keep a good eye on him to make sure he doens't cabbage a frame or two."
"We always tryand cabbage a beer on St. Patrick's day."
Did you know?
Does the "filching" sense of "cabbage" bring to mind an image of thieves sneaking out of farm fields with armloads of pilfered produce? If so, you're in for a surprise. That "cabbage" has nothing to do with the leafy vegetable. It originally referred to the practice among tailors of pocketing part of the cloth given to them to make garments. The verb was cut from the same cloth as an older British noun "cabbage," which meant "pieces of cloth left in cutting out garments and traditionally kept by tailors as perquisites." Both of those ethically questionable "cabbages" probably derived from "cabas," the Middle French word for "cheating or theft." The "cabbage" found in cole slaw, on the other hand, comes from Middle English "caboche," which means "head."
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despot \DESS-putt\ noun
1: a Byzantine emperor or prince b : a bishop or patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church
2: an Italian hereditary prince or military leader during the Renaissance
3: a ruler with absolute power and authority *b : a person exercising power tyrannically
Example sentence:
"Her spoilt younger sister, Phoebe, is a lip-glossed despot, able to command ... attention with a flick of her pretty head." (Lisa Allardice, _The Daily Telegraph_ [London], March 22, 2003)
Did you know?
In his 1755 dictionary, Samuel Johnson said of "despot," "the word is not in use, except as applied to some Dacian prince; as the despot of Servia." Indeed at that time, the word was mainly used to identify some very specific rulers or religious officials, and the title was an honorable one (it comes from a Greek word meaning "lord" or "master" and was originally applied to deities). That situation changed toward the end of the century, perhaps because French Revolutionists, who were said to have been "very liberal in conferring this title," considered all sovereigns to be tyrannical. When democracy became all the rage, "despot" came to be used most often for any ruler who wielded absolute and often contemptuous and oppressive power.
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VICISSITUDE (vuh-SISS-uh-tood) n.:noun
1. the quality or state of being changeable :
2. natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs
3. a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance
4. a fluctuation of state or condition
5. a difficulty or hardship attendant on a way of life, a career
6. a course of action and usually beyond one's control
7. alternating change : succession
Example sentence:
“You have to be able to withstand critisism and mis-understandings to weather the vicissitudes of the changing enviroments.”
Did you know?
"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better," wrote British theologian Richard Hooker in the 16th century. That observation may shed some light on "vicissitude," a word that can refer simply to the fact of change, or to an instance of it, but that often refers specifically to hardship or difficulty brought about by change. To survive "the vicissitudes of life" is thus to survive life's ups and downs, with special emphasis on the downs. "Vicissitude" is a descendant of the Latin noun "vicis," meaning "change" or "alternation," and it has been a part of the English language since the 16th century. In contemporary usage, it most often occurs in the plural.
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Strabismus (stra-bis-mus) - Commonly known as crossed eyes, wall-eyes, deviating eye and eye turns. It involves the deviation of the alignment of one eye in relationship to the other and is caused by a lack of coordination between the eyes. This condition may initially cause double vision because the eyes look in different directions instead of focusing simultaneously on a single point.
There are 2 catagories of strabismus, constant (eye turns occurs all of the time) and intermittent (eye turns occur on occasion, sometimes during stressful situations or during an illness.)
In children, the brain may learn to ignore the input from one eye (called suppression) and if this is allowed to continue could result in vision loss (called amplyopia). It’s estimated that up to 5% of all children have some type or degree of strabismus. Intermittent strabismus is a normal development milestone up to the 1st 6 moths of age. After 6 months, if present, it needs to be evaluated. Aggressive and early treatment may be necessary in order to re-establish proper use of the eyes if the condition is “constant”.
In adults, the binocular vision system has already been established so problems associated with amblyopia do not usually occur. Strabismus can be caused by injuries to the orbit of the eye or brain, including closed head injuries or strokes.
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"rabbit, rabbit"
AMBLYOPIA (am-bli-o-pia):from the Greek word for "dulled vision", is poor vision in an eye. It's sometimes called "lazy eye." When one eye develops good vision while the other does not, the eye with poorer vision is called amblyopic.
The condition is common, affecting approximately three out of every one hundred people, usually children. Amblyopia can occur in an eye that did not have adequate use during early childhood or results from either a misalignment of a child's eyes, such as crossed eyes, or a difference in image quality between the two eyes (one eye focusing better than the other.) In both cases, one eye becomes stronger, suppressing the image of the other eye. If this condition persists, the weaker eye may become useless. With early diagnosis and treatment, the sight in the "lazy eye" can be restored.
Amblyopia is thought to be reversible up to the age of about 8 years. However, current research has conclusively demonstrated that effective treatment can take place at any age, but the length of the treatment period increases dramatically the longer the condition has existed prior to treatment.
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Binocular Vision - The blending of the separate images seen by each of two eyes into a single image. Normal binocular vision yields a stereoscopic image and parallax-induced depth perception.
Each eye looking at the same object sees a slightly different image. The perceived image of one eye and the precevied image of the other are combined in the visual cortex, located in the occipital lobe of the brian. The mind combines the small differences between the 2 images to produce a "blended" image that is more than the 2 parts it was created from.. In other words a richer, final picture. People lacking good binocular vision are unable see the images in the "magic pictures" and will have trouble perceiving depth and judging distances.
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CONJUNCTIVA (KAHN-junk-TY-vuh) – The delicate thin transparent mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and covers the white surface of the eye (sclera).
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TENEBROUS (ten'-uh-bruhs) adj.: gloomy dark,murky
Tenebrous is a somewhat literary term meaning "dark and gloomy." It can be used of actual physical darkness:
"There were living creatures even in the tenebrous depths of the cave."
Or it can be used in a figurative sense:
"THe tenebrous atmospere created by a lack of sleep was both mysterious and frighteneing."
Tenebrous, our word for the day.
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ARCHAEARIUM (ar-kay-e-r-i-um) n.: an archeological excavation covered by a glass building, basically a “non-building”.
Comprised of 2 words, Greek archeo meaning ‘ancient’ and Latin arium meaning ‘place for’.
“Historic Jamestowne took a major step Friday evening when the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and the National Park Service broke ground for an “archaearium. It’s a unique facility to showcase artifacts and the findings of the dig at the original fort of 1607. “
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BABALOG (ba-ba-log) n.: a young, Westernized socail group or individual (me) concerned with wealth, pop culture fads, appearance, material goods or other superficialities; a yuppy, guppy or yuppies. Formerly associated with associates of Rajiv Gandhi.
In Hindu bab means father and log means people, tribe,caste or folk.
“Star News, with its socioeconomic category A and A+ audience firmly in mind, hires the babalog of New Delhi’s movers and shakers, the sort of young people who have trouble reading the Devnagri script.”
"The Brown Sahebs babalog go to public schools where they wear caps and striped ties (the tie is Very important, it is the bond of a lifetime), learn latin, play cricket and eat Irish stew.”
“I’m anyway opposed to this Kakaji (Babalog) culture where these brats are given so many resources and power that they consider themselves much above the lesser mortals.”
“The Babalog are gearing up for the party ahead (everything’s a party, darling, when you get to the bottom of it)."
“These are the ‘babalog,’ the young crowd, or to use the buzzword of the Indian media, the ‘GenNext’: cyber-savvy, computer-literate, young urban professionals.”
“Sometimes the babalog of the political threads gets to be a bit too much.”
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CALIFUNNY (cal-a-fun-ee) n.: a jocular or derisive name for California
“I have known three very contradictory people in my time. Two, from back in redneckland and one from sometimes free and easy Marin county Califunny. “
“It wasn’t his fault really. After all, he was posting from Southern Califunny, all that smog, for all those years.”
“I once voted for a governor, when I was living in Califunny. Alas, Arnold won.
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DECLEAT (de-cleet) v.: in American Football, to knock an apponent off his feet. Also n., decleater
“USC’s, Todd Steele, earned the team’s award as decleater of the week for his blocking. He buried some Illinois defensive backs last week.
“You run at them with the pitch and power plays and, although you might not get the yards at first, they’ll be worn down in the third and fourth quarters to the point that they don’t feel like coming off blocks and you can decleat them.”
“Chambless charged downfield, upending all the would-be blockers—a “decleating,” in NFL parlance—and dropped his opponents “like nobody else was even on the field”."
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ECO-ROOF n.: a roof planted with vegatation
“Hines argues that there are sound technical reasons to use an eco-roof. ‘A grass roof protects the roof membrane on flat roofs from extremes of temperature and also blocks ultra-violet light, which helps the membrane last longer,’ he says.”
“’Sustainability’ is the key. The eco-roof is a roof that is planted in cactus and other water-retaining vegetation.
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FANTOUCHE (fan-toosh) adj.: fancy, extravagant, frivolous
1947 Dictionary of the Scots Language: There are quite a number who consider it more fantoosh to do their shopping in Perth.
1996 Sheila McGregor Usenet: soc.culture.celtic (May 25) “Re: Cernunous”: It seems to me very like the situation in England; Scots is closer to the short-word phase, having lost all its fantoosh expressions when it lost its Court and fashionable people in the 1600s.
2000 [journeytox@aol.com (Kim)] Usenet: alt.tv.x-files (Aug. 10) “Re: R: News from Locarno?”: We’ll watch some Mitch and later, I’ll try out my sister-in-law’s fantouche recipe on you.
2003 Simon Taylor Scottish Place-Name Society (Scotland) (Aug. 5) “About the Scottish Place-Name Society”: Onomastics is the “leirit or fantouche” word for the study of names of all kinds, especially personal and place-names.
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Sisyphean (siss ee fee an)
1) of or like *Sisyphus
2) endless and toilsome
*Sisyphus Greek myth- a greedy king of Corinth doomed forever in Hades to roll a heavy stone uphill, only to have it always roll down again.
"Getting the three O's to agree has become a Sisyphean task."
(came across this word on my Onion-Ad Nauseum calender awhile back-and have been using it regularly ever since!).:p
Chimperial Optical-what a great place to work!
Excellent!
"Always laugh when you can. It is a cheap medicine"
Lord Byron
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