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#213806 - 01/02/14 02:59 PM
YARE (No, not Tasha)
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wofahulicodoc
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YARE
PRONUNCIATION: (yahr or yayr)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Easily maneuverable; nimble. 2. Ready; prepared.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English gearo/gearu (ready). Earliest documented use: 888.
USAGE: "I do desire to learn, sir; and, I hope, if you have occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find me yare."
William Shakespeare; Measure For Measure; 1604.
"She was a 'bonnie lass' in the words of her chief engineer; she was faithful, she was yare -- an unlikely compliment for a vessel without sails."
D.C. Riechel; German Departures; iUniverse; 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Never confuse motion with action. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
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NARE : lumbering; unprepared; obstinate; unresponsive; in short, the opposite of YARE
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#213809 - 01/02/14 04:31 PM
Re: Good Ol' Ben
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jenny jenny
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"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin
I like that.
I like it too, Fahulicodo, very much. Strange. I wonder why Franklin is just now saying it? =========================================================== Y'ARE - "Y'think therefore Y'are". A phrase often used by Descarte when addressing a group.
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#213815 - 01/03/14 02:54 PM
Minds out of the gutter, y'all all...
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Y'ARE.
Good thinnking, JJ!
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RUCK
PRONUNCIATION: (ruk)
MEANING: noun: 1. A large mass, especially of ordinary people or things. 2. A crease or wrinkle.
verb tr., intr.: To make a crease or to become creased.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse hrukka (wrinkle, fold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (to turn or bend), which is also the source of ranch, rank, shrink, circle, circa, crisp, corolla, search, ring, curb, ridge, curve, corolla, and coronary. Earliest documented use: 1225.
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UNCK
what Piglet called his mother's brother
Reason for edit: two changes; disqualified
O'RUCK
1. what your Japanese friend wishes you rots of when she's feeling sardonic
2. an Irish brand of vacuem cleaner
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#213816 - 01/03/14 03:03 PM
Re: Good Ol' Ben
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"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin Let's take it one step further: Never confuse motion with action, or action with progress. ** ("The trouble with Internet quotations is that you can't always depend on their accuracy." -- Abraham Lincoln)**Edit: A brief Googlesearch says I could/should have attributed this to "Benjamin Hemingway"...
Last edited by wofahulicodoc; 01/03/14 10:50 PM. Reason: Amazing what this Internet can find...
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