Redefining misanthropy for a fresh generation. Standard posts begin with a definition from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary followed by a modern adjustment. Miscellany on Wednesday and storytelling on Saturday.
What would I know? I'm faithful. Look here: I'm almost out the door on the way to the shore, and yet I stop at each of my children's sites to see what's up.
I love Indie's comment. Very good.
Newsworthy? Mmmmm...sometimes. But so is a long-lasting faithful relationship these days.
Is it always about sex? It makes me think of "intellectuals" who kiss-up to every published goof around them. Spend too much time in too many camps and people will definitely start to talk.
A bold and brave assertion to make in the presence of one Miz B!
promiscuous: a sin to some; a delight to others. a required characteristic of those seeking public office (see also prostitution, whorish behavior not restricted to that of a sexual nature).
Wow some great comments today. I don't know Doug, you sure know how to lore out the promiscuous in "them" :) I certainly can't come up with a decent definition with those preceding...
Um, quill ... penial code? Careful - your Freudian slip is showing. Of course, when it comes to professional promiscuity, it doesn't matter much how it's spelled ...
Over the last fifteen years, researchers investigating the sex life of this small, retiring brown bird have uncovered a pattern of promiscuous behaviour, with male birds "continuously ready to mate and testing every female for her willingness to copulate". Almost two-thirds of all broods of young Aquatic Warblers have more than one father.
Quilldancer, don't you live in Clarke County where the County Charter defines it as the first pillar of customer satisfaction and membership in the teacher's union?
G, what are you saying about my beloved Pansi?
Sorry, Actonbell. I promise not to have you a guest when you're out of town. Great definition, too. A toast!
O Ceallaigh, what are you saying about dear Quilldancer?
Good one, a4g and I don't mean that priggishly.
It means omnipresence, Poobah.
Minka, what's black and white and red all over?
Aral, you're mama's so prmoiscuous she wears self-addressed stamped underwear. (Good thing she's at the beach, huh?)
Kyahgirl, some words just really get people where they want to live.
a) a movie from 1997 b) a blushing penguin c) an embarrased zebra d)A panda trying to apply lipstick ... z) a newspaper when you are trying to be smart with homonyms
Clark County no longer allows professional woman to operate within its boundries (according to the law).
I will have to stop posting while in class. I don't take the time to consider my spelling (or much of anything else, getting caught would not be a good thing).
Doug, I introduced them to my poetry blog. The rest of blogland they can find on their own -- and not in my classroom. Although they truly could use the word exposure.
Folks, I really do know how to spell. What I don't do well is type!
Quilly, look at my typing and you´ll feel better! :) It is just the typing people!
Doug, oh please try to be funny again :) Just because my average sized brains don´t get it, doensæt mean you should keep the rest of the bloggosphere from that delight. I am sur eyou ahve in you somewhere... *hurries off to look at other blogs*
Did someone say San Francisco????
ReplyDeleteHOOAH! Numero uno! Take that sistah Penguin! Funkified FO SHO!
Promiscuous... hmmm... so not San Francisco anymore... gotta think on this one... *sigh* at least I was first! FIRST!!! BWAHAHAHAHAAA!
ReplyDeletepromiscuous,adj. in wnat of a more sophisticated screening process
ReplyDeleteYour update sucked Doug. This better not become a habit because nobody likes a promiscuous update.
ReplyDelete;)
Promiscuous is as promiscuous does :) (I should not be allowed to watch movies right before I comment.)
ReplyDeletePromiscuous people are fun... that is until you get caught with one of them (or should I say being one of them?)
promiscuous - N = Dewy Knickers! 'nuf said. D :)
ReplyDeleteNot antimiscuous.
ReplyDeleteIt's early and I'm heading out the door, so don't give me any grief over this dumb comment.
I will have you know FF, that some girls can have fun w/o being promiscuous.
ReplyDeleteOhh I am a Noun!! Very cool.
DK xo
P.S. Morning Doug! *waves shyly* How are you doing? *giggles* Bye Bye...
promiscuous: untouchable
ReplyDeletePromiscuous: Someone who will link to any blog and comment to any post.
ReplyDeletenewsworthy. Sigh. Ain't it the truth ...
ReplyDeleteWhat would I know? I'm faithful. Look here: I'm almost out the door on the way to the shore, and yet I stop at each of my children's sites to see what's up.
ReplyDeleteI love Indie's comment. Very good.
Newsworthy? Mmmmm...sometimes. But so is a long-lasting faithful relationship these days.
I promise i will miss youse.
Is it always about sex? It makes me think of "intellectuals" who kiss-up to every published goof around them. Spend too much time in too many camps and people will definitely start to talk.
ReplyDeletepromiscuous adj.
ReplyDeleteI know absolutely nothing about this word and I will categorically deny any allegations otherwise.
Hermana, nicely usurped!
ReplyDeleteBrian, we permit promiscuous trolls retractions, too.
Brian, you don't get to be King of the Cave with ungratified women around, go ahead.
Minka, you mean like alphabetical order?
Thanks, Sar. I'll try to be more proper. Didn't take you long to go Jersey.
Solace, promiscuity has to be its own reward. The press isn't very good at your age.
Feline, she is kind of over-channeled, hey?
Jamie Dawn, thank you for remembering the antimiscuous among us. How was that?
Morning, Dewy. I think your reputation is safe here.
Nice, Puppybrose. Or tiowed.
Indie, you're a tramp.
'Fraid so, O Ceallaigh
TLP, have a great time selling sea shells by the seashore.
Mutha, that's why Harry Truman wanted to hire a one-armed economist.
Quilldancer, for more information read the City Charter.
rabbits are promiscuous. and everyone thinks they're cute, too
ReplyDeleteveivk: Vikings are very kool (don't know much about their faithfulness, though)
Unable or unwilling to make up one's mind ... or one's bed. See nymphomaniac; also trollop xoxo
ReplyDeletePROMISCUOUS, adj. San Francisco society.
ReplyDeleteA bold and brave assertion to make in the presence of one Miz B!
promiscuous: a sin to some; a delight to others. a required characteristic of those seeking public office (see also prostitution, whorish behavior not restricted to that of a sexual nature).
A network card that passes everything to the CPU.
ReplyDeleteSo naughty!
Promiscuous: perfectionist?
ReplyDeleteWow some great comments today. I don't know Doug, you sure know how to lore out the promiscuous in "them" :) I certainly can't come up with a decent definition with those preceding...
ReplyDeletepromiscuous: one of the moral hazards of ubiquity
ReplyDeletewoo hoo, dougster!
The divine K, good to have you tramping up my verifiers again. Gladdens my flinty heart.
ReplyDeleteMireille, I haven't seen her yet today. LBP?
Joel, there are a lot of successful strategies predicated on promiscuity.
Logo, I'm stunned!
Puppybrose, that may be the best one yet.
Go ahead, G. We're easy, obviously.
Oh my Puppybrose! Does that make me promiscuous then? DIOS MIO!!!
ReplyDeletePromiscuous... loaded word for a certain Bierce to use in the presence of bohemians FO SHO! Joel was right! RIGHT I TELL YOU!
Promiscuous... a sexual 'n sensual OCD...
promiscous, adj.
ReplyDeleteWith a truly promiscuous person, you can have a Full House, even though having played all your cards wrong
I like puppybrose's...because if first you don't suceed, try, try again and again and (hey you!) again.
ReplyDeleteSomeone rang? Does who really matter?
ReplyDeleteYee ha, ubiquitous lady!
ReplyDeleteMiz B, I think sexual and sensous ADHD might be a closer diagnosis for promiscuity.
Minka, I just wish that's what I'd written.
Hahaha, Mutha. Nice addition.
You guys are really making me laugh today. Good one, Jenna.
PROMISCUOUS pro-mis-cu-ous
ReplyDeletepro - professional
mis - young woman
cu[e] - promting
ous - us
.... in accordance with the Nye County penial code.
Doug, maybe we should just AX PANSI or maybe, ahem, we don't need to.
ReplyDeleteUm, quill ... penial code? Careful - your Freudian slip is showing. Of course, when it comes to professional promiscuity, it doesn't matter much how it's spelled ...
ReplyDeleteNah. I got nothing.
ReplyDelete*blushes*
ReplyDeletePromiscuous: your mother.
ReplyDelete(Sorry Doug's mother, the comeback "your mother" is stuck in my mind today!)
AP3is really cracking me up today :-)
ReplyDeleteIn fact, everyone is in fine form.
And now your naughty bird lesson of the day:
ReplyDeleteA note about the
Aquatic Warbler:
Over the last fifteen years, researchers investigating the sex life of this small, retiring brown bird have uncovered a pattern of promiscuous behaviour, with male birds "continuously ready to mate and testing every female for her willingness to copulate". Almost two-thirds of all broods of young Aquatic Warblers have more than one father.
Brian, you're off a couple deadly sins.
ReplyDeleteQuilldancer, don't you live in Clarke County where the County Charter defines it as the first pillar of customer satisfaction and membership in the teacher's union?
G, what are you saying about my beloved Pansi?
Sorry, Actonbell. I promise not to have you a guest when you're out of town. Great definition, too. A toast!
O Ceallaigh, what are you saying about dear Quilldancer?
Good one, a4g and I don't mean that priggishly.
It means omnipresence, Poobah.
Minka, what's black and white and red all over?
Aral, you're mama's so prmoiscuous she wears self-addressed stamped underwear. (Good thing she's at the beach, huh?)
Kyahgirl, some words just really get people where they want to live.
Terry, I never could get the feathers to stay on.
ReplyDeleteDoug, lots of things:
ReplyDeletea) a movie from 1997
b) a blushing penguin
c) an embarrased zebra
d)A panda trying to apply lipstick
...
z) a newspaper when you are trying to be smart with homonyms
What are you trying to say?
Actually Doug, I thought that you might tell us.
ReplyDeleteClark County no longer allows professional woman to operate within its boundries (according to the law).
ReplyDeleteI will have to stop posting while in class. I don't take the time to consider my spelling (or much of anything else, getting caught would not be a good thing).
Promiscous n a desease bearing sneeze
I was trying to be funny, Minka. It won't happen again.
ReplyDeleteG, I gentleman never kisses and tells and besides that, I'm not dead yet. My date with Pansi is for heaven.
Quilldancer, by all means protect your job, but I think the little so-and-sos should be exposed to this stuff.
Doug, I introduced them to my poetry blog. The rest of blogland they can find on their own -- and not in my classroom. Although they truly could use the word exposure.
ReplyDeleteFolks, I really do know how to spell. What I don't do well is type!
Indiscriminate
ReplyDeleteAren't vices simply excesses of virtues??
LOL, Doug
ReplyDeleteI really can't top that, not at 5:43 a.m. TLPSDT.
Quilly, look at my typing and you´ll feel better! :)
ReplyDeleteIt is just the typing people!
Doug, oh please try to be funny again :)
Just because my average sized brains don´t get it, doensæt mean you should keep the rest of the bloggosphere from that delight.
I am sur eyou ahve in you somewhere...
*hurries off to look at other blogs*
Not to fear, Quill. We are accustomed to great minds expressing themselves through incautious fingers.
ReplyDeleteSquaregirl, I think vices are virtues next door.
OK, Aral. I know your busy, but one of these days you and I are meeting for a yomamathon.
OK, Minka, I'll give it one more chance.
Brian, almost never.
Promiscuous: Educated.
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