Close the Polls!

This is today's poll on my Dallas Cowboys website; I had read an article, then tried to return to the home page, but the page wouldn't come up. A refresh showed me that the page was being updated and this brand new poll was now on the page and I was the first one to cast a ballot!

Sometimes the poll results are ludicrous, especially as one would think that people who frequent a pro football fansite would probably know more than the average fan.

Anyone who knows anything about football knows that the success of a football team, esp. their success offensively, is directly due to having a dominant O-Line.

So, close the polls. I've supplied the answer.

valetudinarian

When I was a kid, and ran out of things to read, I would pick up the dictionary, try to increase my vocabulary. Granted, I didn't pick up that many to use in most every-day conversations, but I could generally kick butt in Scrabble.

This blog has a feed down a bit in the left-hand navbar, a Word of the Day from Dictionary.com, and I've never heard of today's entry, valetudinarian

From the website:

valetudinarian \val-uh-too-din-AIR-ee-un
noun:1. A weak or sickly person, especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health.
adjective:1. Sickly; weak; infirm.2. Morbidly concerned with one's health.

I loved this example they gave:

Other than the Holy Scripture, he cared for no book as well as the book of decay, its truths written in the furrows scored on the brows of old men and women; in the sagging timbers of decrepit barns; in the lichenous masonry of derelict buildings; in the mangy fur of a valetudinarian lion.
-- Simon Schama, Rembrandt's Eyes

I can use that in a sentence:

"I was the valetudinarian of my senior class."

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Heard the first Christmas advert just a minute ago on the tube.

Have they no shame?

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