Words, words, words III

[LDuyer]

You're all probably pretty sick of me and my words fetish. Tough. I need a diversion. Talk of masks and sleep studies are getting to me. But I thought some of you men out there might enjoy this word. Have you used it? Hahaha!


misogamy

misogamy (mi-SOG-uh-mee) noun

Hatred of marriage.


"Unfortunately, Coward couldn't resist a bit of `socially acceptable' misogamy. The domestic violence at the end of the second act was a bit
unsettling, the more so because so many in the audience found it amusing.
Goff, Nadine, `Private Lives' Needs Something of Jump Start,
Wisconsin State Journal, 7 Jan 1995.

source: A Word A Day




Linda

[LDuyer]

Here's another. Anyone know what "expiation" means? .....

piacular


piacular (pie-AK-yuh-luhr) adjective

1. Making expiation or atonement for a sacrilege.

2. Requiring expiation; wicked or blameworthy.

[Latin piacularis, from piaculum, propitiatory sacrifice, from piare, to
appease, from pius, dutiful.]

"Dogs were also favourite piacular victims, as in the Lupercalia
(February 15)."
Foot Moore, George, History Of Religions: Chapter I, History of the World,
1 Jan 1992.

[LDuyer]

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

-Henri Bergson

[LDuyer]

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

-Anne Morrow Lindberg

[LDuyer]

If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose the ecstasy. It is better poetry. But you and all my neighbors agree that I always choose badly.

-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

[LDuyer]

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

[LDuyer]

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

-Chinese proverb

[LDuyer]

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

-Raymond Mortimer

[rpalmer]

Ok, Linda, I'll play. I think I need a diversion, too:

“The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.”
— William Claude Dunkenfield
(W. C. Fields) 1880 – 1946

"We need to think things instead of words."
—Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

Rol

[neversleeps]

I rather like the one I read somewhere here on the forum.... but I can't remember it exactly... something like....

"I'd rather die calmly in my sleep like my grandfather did than yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car."
Emo Phillips

[rpalmer]

Thanks for a great quote neversleeps. I'm an inveterate quote collector & that's the best one I've seen in a long time!

Rol

[rpalmer]

"I'd rather die calmly in my sleep like my grandfather did than yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car."
Emo Phillips

Another great Emo Phillips quote:

“Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.”
— Emo Phillips

Sort of takes on a whole new meaning if you imagine your mask's headgear made from leather doesn't it?

[BuffaloAl]

On a poster in my office:

Everybody makes me happy. Some when you come in, the rest of you, when you leave.
Don't know who said it.

My favorite website in the world is despair.com. the best posters are in a pile in my office waiting for someone to frame them. ( see "procrastination")

I got my son the " Another dissatisfied customer" T-shirt. My daughter probably won't be dissatisfied enough to wear one until she's a teen.

[rock and roll]

Linda, Linda Linda,

You are just trying to get to the magic 1000 posts!


Almost there, congrats.........I guess

[ahujudybear]

NEAT

(obsc.) Bovine, as in neat cattle (meaning cows or steers, as opposed to camels or goats which were also considered cattle) - from Miriam Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1906

- JB