Word of the Day

[Doreen Peri]

Tivy. Pronounced with a long i like tievee.

adv. With great speed; - a huntsman's word or sound.

as in "Tivy kangaroo down, sport."

or

"Dirty bathroom? Not much time? She needs the Tivy Bowl Man!"

heh

[Barry]

I love it. Thank you, Doreen, for that beautiful word.

Here's one for today. I was introduced to it in 1982, on the back of the Frankie Goes To Hollywood EP Two Tribes.

Synergism

Here are a number of definitions. Notice that it's not exactly the same as synergy.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synergism
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl ... n&ct=title
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synergism
http://www.yourdictionary.com/synergism
http://dictionary.babylon.com/SYNERGISM
http://www.businessdictionary.com/defin ... rgism.html
http://dictionary.die.net/synergism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergism
http://everything2.com/node/340865

On the back of Two Tribes EP synergism was used in a chart breaking down the effcts to be expected from a Global Thermonuclear War. One line on the chart was headed "Synergisms," with nothing but question marks as entries on the chart, because you just can't ever know what might come from them.
Here's a pic...

These are the lyrics...http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/frankieg ... ribes.html

This is all a work of art.

Peace,
Barry
PS:
PPS:"Are we living in a land
Where sex and horror are the new Gods?"

[hester_prynne]

The big picture as opposed to individual indulgences? Sort of like that you mean??? Nice word....
H

[Barry]

More like...while it may be easy to tell what a person will do, there's just no telling what people can do.

Or something like that.

Peace,
Barry

[still.trucking]

I used to stand and wonder at what people can do. Now I only stand.

A word I learned from Clay.

Tensegrity
He was referring to geodesic domes but it has a quantum mystical meaning too.

Tensegrity is an art: the art of adapting to one's own energy, and to each other's energy in a way that contributes to the integrity of the community that we are.


http://www.castaneda.com/

[still.trucking]

# repress - put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The ...
# repress - smother: conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
# repress - suppress: put out of one's consciousness
# repress - block the action of


wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

[stilltrucking]

Overweening:

He might have learnt Less overweening, since he failed in Job, Whose constant perseverance overcame Whate'er his cruel malice could invent.

Paradise Regained

[stilltrucking]

Pinocheted:

Will Cheney get Pinocheted if he travels outside the US?

The big turning point came on October 16, 1998, the day Pinochet was arrested in London on a Spanish court order. Since then, other human rights violators have had to worry about being “Pinocheted” if they leave their home countries.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/1 ... cedent.php

Col Wilkerson “I will testify if Cheney is ‘Pinocheted’”
Col Lawrence Wilkerson, former aide to General Colin Powell talks with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now about claims made in the new book by former VP Dick Cheney, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir.

http://mgx.com/blogs/2011/08/30/col-wil ... inocheted/