rancor

From the Word of the Day

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rancor \RANG-ker\
noun: bitter resentment or ill will; extreme hatred or spite

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This word has often been used to describe the state of the current and past few years of this country's political debate.

One word for this word: Apt

Check the Homework!

From the email archives

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A first grade girl handed in the drawing below for a homework assignment.

After it was graded and the child brought it home, she returned to school the next day with the following note:

Dear Ms. Davis,

I want to be very clear on my child’s illustration. It is NOT of me on a dance pole on a stage in a strip joint.

I work at Home Depot and had commented to my daughter how much money we made in the recent snowstorm.

This drawing is of me selling a shovel.



Mrs. Harrington

George Bernard Shaw Quote

But Mr. Shaw, I read it on the 'net so it's GOTTA be true!

pandiculation

The Word of the Day

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pandiculation \pan-dik-yuh-LEY-shuhn\

noun: an instinctive stretching, as on awakening or while yawning

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I've done this and got a charley horse so horrible it made me collapse from the pain, such a sudden shock I guess. It's taken me a long, long time to learn to do it gingerly, a little at a time. It also helps to stay hydrated, I think, because nearly every other time I've got a cramp it was when I was also thirsty.

Pandiculation isn't in my Firefox spell checker, and I didn't know the word.

10 Enjoyable Things To Do On Inauguration Day

From the email (recent) archives:

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1. Search for a second or third job to help pay your higher taxes;

2. Stage a Ronald Reagan Film Festival in your community;

3. Attend a women's professional basketball game;

4. Search your kitchen for recalled food products;

5. Play Halo 3 and/or Wii with your teenager(s);

6. Ignore all news media sources for 24 hours;

7. Shovel snow off your driveway;

8. Schedule a colonoscopy;

9. File your tax return; and

10. Stay in bed.

'Barack Obama Has Refused to Be a President'

Heads-up from JammieWearingFool about cloned Obama websites with the above title and having been outfitted with a computer virus.

The malicious websites originate from China. Whodathunkit? I thought the Ruskies and other ex-Soviet bloc nations had cornered the market on that sort of thing.

"Jammie" is one of my new favorite blogs I follow and a multiple winner of the famous Weblog Awards

They're not up there in searches for "sister's feet" like this one, though.