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unkempt.
at the middle school in which I teach, we have a few "slovenly" students. slow, and sloppy; unmotivated; generally glumpy... sad, actually. hard to get kids like that going, and hard to know what sets them on that course.
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Dear etaoin: A lot of slobby boys suddenly become fashion plates when their voices have
changed and they suddenly notice girls prefer well dressed escorts. Thank Heaven for little
girls.
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true, Bill, I have seen that happen. however, slobby is cool right now... ah youth.... 
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"All I want is a room somewhere,
"Far away from the cold night air,
"With one enormous chair.
"Oh, wouldn't it be slovenly!"
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I polled 23 fifth graders today. I had written the word Slovenly on the white board. I told them that I post on a vocabulary board on the internet, and that one of my fellow poster's husbands had said that slovenly was a rare word most people wouldn't understand. I then asked them what they thought "slovenly" meant. 13 fifth graders aid, "Sloppy." Several said, "Inappropriate." And there were some other incorrect responses. Still, 13 were correct. That should do the trick, huh, belMarduk?
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but then most of them also think guacamole is nasty
Well, they are right about that, anyway.
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right about that
Ha! When I was but a wee sprout my mother told me I would like avocadoes. I, of course, knowing that nothing that looked so ugly could ever be palatable, poohpoohed her. Then, many years later, I got a job washing dishes at the Franciscan Café in Flagstaff, Arizona. Every meal served at the Franciscan Café came with a little paper shot glass filled with guacamole with a little corn curl stuck in it. Ninety-nine people out of ten wouldn't eat their guacamole so the little shot glasses came back to the dishroom, contents intact. I soon learned to scoop the guac' before dumping the residue in the trash and discovered that I loved the stuff. Later I discovered that the avocado didn't even need the addition of spices, etc., to be delicious (although the additions certainly didn't hurt anything).
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i too was an adult before tasting an avacado. but i remembered reading about them.. Sylvia Plath, (unless my memory is playing tricks)in A Bell Jar wrote about attending a (part of college scholarship) luncheon, and one course was avacados stuff with crab meat (cold as a salad) the she maveled at the colors, the green, fading to yellow, contrasting with the pink and white, the creaminess of the avacado, the way both the crab and avacado has butter tastes..(it was her first encounter with an avacado, too!)
well, i didn't run out and buy one, but i was primed. so the first time i was offered avacado, and some asked if i liked it, i said, "never have had it, but i am sure i will like it" and i did!
it is interesting how one persons description, can color our view of something isn't it?
grape skins don't 'agree' with me, and early on, i came to dislike raisens since they always made me feel sick. by extention, i was wary of all dried fruit, (and still don't ever seek it out) but when i read Mrs. Mike (Freeman, husband & wife) and the character talked about making wonderful pies with dried apples, and went on about dried apples in general.. i tried dried apples. apples and dates are the only dried fruit i like.
i have learned to taste and enjoy foods i might never have tried, because of things i have read about them.
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apples and dates are the only dried fruit i like.
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Have you tried Medjool dates? Gift from the gods!
Looks like it's dried but it isn't and can be eaten "as is." However may also be soaked in lukewarn (tepid) water for 10 minutes or so and it melts in your mouth. Sweeter than candy ... almost better than s** !!!
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As to "slovenly" well, if you are still sitting around in your nightgown and bathrobe at noontime that's slovenly, or so my Mother used to tell me. ;)
I think most young people would get the meaning from context even if they had not heard it commonly used. All the people I asked know what it means. However it may not be a word you'd see in a "conversational English"
book, so do let poor hubby off the hook ... after you've collected your $20!!
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Ninety-nine people out of ten
was it a miracle?
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