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[Doreen Peri]

sluice

Definitions of sluice:
noun: conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
verb: pour as if from a sluice
Example: "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
verb: irrigate with water from a sluice
Example: "Sluice the earth"
verb: draw through a sluice
Example: "Sluice water"
verb: transport in or send down a sluice
Example: "Sluice logs"

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i love this word

yer turn

[stilltrucking]

I always liked invidious and insidious
you can be insidiously invidious or invidiously insidious

But the Groucho's Magic Duck came down with a hundred dollar bill for ennui today.

Ennui




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Related phrases: pit of ennui


Definitions of ennui on the Web:

boredom: the feeling of being bored by something tedious
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ennui

Boredom, or ennui (pronounced "on-we," this French word comes from Old French enui, root of the English word 'annoy') is a reactive state to wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious stimuli: suffering from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, etc., or do (physically or intellectually), while not in the mood of "doing nothing". Those afflicted by temporary boredom may regard the affliction as a waste of time, but usually characterise boredom worse than just that. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennui

(F), boredom.
www.willdurant.com/glossary.htm

Boredom, a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction.
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Just a word I read today on a GO that stuck in my mind. Dont mean nuttin, just a GO, no where's else to GO

[eugeneherman]

In a circa 1900 German dictionary printed in Berlin, the German term for a blacksmith's daughter was a "schlussel'.

[stilltrucking]

Abomination
I love the sound of that word
such a rock and roll sound
makes me want to dance all night

[stilltrucking]

I been thinking about Janus words like Oversight

As in congressional oversight.

[mousey1]

Amorphous[uh-mawr-fuhs]:
1. lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless: the amorphous clouds.
2. of no particular kind or character; indeterminate; having no pattern or structure; unorganized: an amorphous style; an amorphous personality.
3. Petrography, Mineralogy. occurring in a mass, as without stratification or crystalline structure.
4. Chemistry. not crystalline.
5. Biology. having structural components that are not clearly differentiated, as the nuclear material in certain bacteria.


Amorphous. Not quite seen. Not quite touchable. Elegant in it's being of non beingness. Almost nothing, but not.

Amorphous

[stilltrucking]

Entanglement

Related phrases: wire entanglement quantum entanglement


Definitions of entanglement on the Web:

web: an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Quantum entanglement is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects may be spatially separated. This leads to correlations between observable physical properties of the systems. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entanglement

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Entanglement

[Lightning Rod]

This is a very interesting word--sycophant

sycophant --Etymology
1537 (in L. form sycophanta), "informer, talebearer, slanderer," from L. sycophanta, from Gk. sykophantes, originally "one who shows the fig," from sykon "fig" + phanein "to show." "Showing the fig" was a vulgar gesture made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, itself symbolic of a cunt (sykon also meant "vulva"). The story goes that prominent politicians in ancient Greece held aloof from such inflammatory gestures, but privately urged their followers to taunt their opponents. The sense of "mean, servile flatterer" is first recorded in Eng. 1575.

noun
a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

It means someone who flatters or praises another person without really meaning it so that the other person will be compliant to their wishes.....like getting into some pants.

Another expression of this term is what the Bush White House is experiencing. Everybody around the president seems to be telling him what he wants to hear rather than what he needs to hear. Sycophancy.

I always want to misspell this word. I want to spell it like I pronounce it (which is wrong, but I'm a Texan, I have an excuse) I want to spell it 'synchophant' like it's somebody who is in 'sych' with the party line.

I don't do well with sycophants
that's why all my friends are difficult people
who won't cut me an inch of slack
I need that. Keeps me honest.

I don't want people around me
that tell me what I want to hear
I want people around me who
aren't afraid to tell me what I don't want to hear.

an artist has to have hide like an alligator
impervious and scaly
If you want to lose my respect
try to flatter me.

[stilltrucking]

LR Wrote:

Another expression of this term is what the Bush White House is experiencing. Everybody around the president seems to be telling him what he wants to hear rather than what he needs to hear. Sycophancy

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Oh man you put your finger on it there compadre. He has been told what he needs to hear but that is a very strange vice president we have.
Rasputin, Swengali, I don’t understand his power over “shrub” been a sad year here in the R.O.T. Molly and Anne passing, You know it’s hard for Texans to be humble. Sorry for the nostalgia but every time I hear Bush called Shrub I think of her.

Have you checked out the last episode of Zlotcomix, I think it episode 18, bloody brilliant if you ask me.

[Doreen Peri]

well considering the email exchange that included the word "sycophant," I'm more inclined to think you've spelled it wrong.

I'm just going to have to start calling some people "psycho-pants."

Seems a person can't even describe her limitations without being told she's "outa touch with reality," "whining,", "disingenuous," "long-winded," "complete crap", "irresponsible" and "self-serving."

Anybody who comes to such conclusions about a person who presents her skills and talents and lack thereof with complete honesty, must be a "psycho-pants."

LOL!

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Today's word is ZAX.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/53/Z0005300.html

NOUN: A tool similar to a hatchet, used for cutting and dressing roofing slates.

Lizzie Borden took a zax
and gave her father forty wacks.
When she thought the job well done,
she gave her mother forty-one.

Now THAT lady was outa touch with reality!

[jimboloco]

lemmings for Bush

i got a former workmate who likes to brag about how her car broke down on the way to woodstock

she almost ran me off the road going to work last week
cause when i saw her BUSH_CHENEY bumpersticker and realised it was her,
I blasted my horn as she waved and swerved badly and went another way so i wouldn't have to see her at the next stop light

this topic is too intellectual for me
underdog is a good word that i like
also hungup
yeah

[stilltrucking]

Ravish:

2. ravish - hold spellbound
enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, transport, delight
delight, please - give pleasure to or be pleasing to; "These colors please the senses"; "a pleasing sensation"

[mtmynd]

domatidleon [doh'ma'tid-lee'on] (n) - a whispered sigh used upon experiencing the blissful state of freedom from the incessant bondage of gravity.

origin: from the empty mind of mtmynd whislt casually observing the morning feeding of the white wing doves.

domatidleon... domatidleon...
i felt your message -
it's that rape of gravity
that everyday bondage
that keeps us locked within
the parameters of the mundane.

domatidleon... domatidleon...
free from gravity's pull
giving it's freedom
to behold that which
defies it's power
and promises bliss

domatidleon... domatidleon...
at last purified and released
i have felt flightless flight
leaving footprints in the ethers
to retrace the message
when desire again whispers:

domatidleon... domatidleon...

[stilltrucking]

adj?

domatidleon butterfly

domatidleon mundane miracles

adv?

domatidleonly breathing.

[mtmynd]

sure, truck (fellow prime8 ), why not..? sounds about right to me.