Word of the Day

Coachnorm

While I thought I had done a great job, she was insistent, so I redundant.

Runnik's Hambones

Epic Win, Coach!

Runnik's Hambones

The Word of the Day for June 11, 2009 is:
effrontery • \ih-FRUN-tuh-ree\ • noun
: shameless boldness : insolence

Example Sentence:
The other guests at the party were astonished by the effrontery of Patrick’s insulting behavior toward the host.

Did you know?
To the Romans, the shameless were "without forehead," at least figuratively. "Effrontery" derives from Latin "effrons," a word that combines the prefix "ex-" (meaning "out" or "without") and "frons" (meaning "forehead" or "brow"). The Romans never used "effrons" literally to mean "without forehead," and theorists aren't in full agreement about the connection between the modern meaning of "effrontery" and the literal senses of its roots. Some explain that "frons" can also refer to the capacity for blushing, so a person without "frons" would be "unblushing" or "shameless." Others theorize that since the Romans believed that the brow was the seat of a person's modesty, being without a brow meant being "immodest," or again, "shameless."

Runnik's Hambones

The Word of the Day for June 13, 2009 is:
potboiler • \PAHT-boy-ler\ • noun
: a usually inferior work (as of art or literature) produced chiefly for profit

Example Sentence:
After gazing at the lake's serene beauty, Susie sat down in a nearby Adirondack chair and opened up a potboiler for some mindless entertainment.

Did you know?"Potboiler" draws its meaning from what was once the heartbeat of the home, the hearth and its boiling pot. In the days before modern conveniences, it was essential to maintain a fire within a home's hearth for warmth and domestic activities. In order "to make the pot boil" or "to keep the pot boiling" for cooking, one needed fuel, and to acquire fuel one typically needed an income. When artistic and literary works, especially inferior ones, became the means of keeping the pot boiling in some homes during the 19th century, it didn't take long for the literati to criticize such works as insignificant potboilers.

Cooley Cadets

This thread is much more than just some light potboiler reading. I can imagine someone will be able to come up with a more creative use/meanding for the word though.

Remote Controller

I never tried boiling my pot. I did bake with it though???? I boiled peyote buttons once.

Cooley Cadets

Now this is some potboiling reading.

Instead of the brownies would boiling work if you put it in with your pasta?

Remote Controller

For me pasta is almsot a mancard issue. I have no problem with Spaghetti, or lasagna, but if you go to a restuarant and order PASTA????, I worry.

Cooley Cadets

Oh no!!!

that mancard/hate-mongering mindset is spreading into other threads

god save us all...




or at least the non-mongerers.

Remote Controller

lol!