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Word of the Day – Punctilious

  • Adjective: Punctilious
    1. very careful about behaving properly and doing things in a correct and accurate way
  • Synonyms:
    1. Meticulous
    2. Conscientious
    3. Diligent
    4. Scrupulous
    5. Careful
    6. Painstaking
    7. Rigorous
    8. Perfectionist
    9. Methodical
    10. Particular
    11. Strict
  • Usage:

“This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness. He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand.”

  • Encountered:

While reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Vanity Plate of the Day – BGENUF

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This one was on the back of a Mini Cooper.  Certainly big “enuf” for most folks daily commute.

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Quote for the Day – William Faulkner

15270958187_a2de1b0f9e_b“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.” ~ William Faulkner
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Quote for the Day -Ralph Ellison

“Mother, who was my mother? Mother, the one who screams when you suffer – but who?” from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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Vanity Plate of the Day – ZIPPPY

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This one was on the back of a rust colored Mini Cooper.  Instead zoom zoom, zip zip…

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Word of the Day – Pasquinade

  • Noun: Pasquinade
    1. a satire or lampoon, originally one displayed or delivered publicly in a public place.
  • Synonyms:
    1. Burlesque
    2. Lampoon
    3. Satire
    4. Farce
    5. Parody
  • Usage:

“Most of those reports were a nightmare—grotesque, circumstantial, eager and untrue. When Michaelis’s testimony at the inquest brought to light Wilson’s suspicions of his wife I thought the whole tale would shortly be served up in racy pasquinade — but Catherine, who might have said anything, didn’t say a word.”

  • Encountered:

While reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Quote for the Day – Joseph Heller

“Yossarian knew he was lying, but did not interrupt as Chief White Halfoat went on to claim that he had never heard from his parents again. That didn’t bother him too much, though, for he had only their word for it that they were his parents, and since they had lied to him about so many other things, they could just as well have been lying to him about that too.” ~~ From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Quote for the Day – John Steinbeck

AVT_John-Steinbeck_6088“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”  ~~ John Steinbeck

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Word of the Day – Supercilious

  • Adjective: Supercilious
    1. having or showing the proud and unpleasant attitude of people who think that they are better or more important than other people
  • Synonyms:
    1. Arrogant
    2. Haughty
    3. Conceited
    4. Disdainful
    5. Overbearing
    6. Pompous
    7. Condescending
    8. Superior
    9. Patronizing
    10. Imperious
    11. Proud
    12. Snobbish
    13. Snobby
    14. Smug
    15. Scornful
    16. sneering
  • Usage:

“He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.”

  • Encountered:

While reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Quote for the Day – John Steinbeck

AVT_John-Steinbeck_6088“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.”  ~~ John Steinbeck

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