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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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Vanity Plate of the Day – NAIMAN

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This one was on the back of an Infinity SUV.  I could not see the driver.  I bring this up as I can think of two possible reasons for this plate.  One it could be someone’s name.  Secondly, it could be an Arabic word that is used after someone has a shave, haircut, shower, etc.  From what read it might loosely translate as “all cleaned up, looking good again.”

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Quote for the Day – Mark Twain

Mark_Twain_by_AF_Bradley“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” ~~ Mark Twain

 

 

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Quote for the Day – John Steinbeck

AVT_John-Steinbeck_6088“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”  ~~ John Steinbeck

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Word of the Day – Prolix

  •  Adjective: Prolix
    1. unduly prolonged or drawn out :  too long
    2. marked by or using an excess of words
  • Synonyms:
    1. long-winded
    2. verbose
    3. wordy
    4. pleonastic
    5. discursive
    6. rambling
    7. long-drawn-out
    8. overlong
    9. lengthy
    10. protracted
    11. interminable
  • Usage:

“Wintergreen determined the outcome by throwing all communications from General Peckem into the wastebasket. He found them too prolix.”

Encountered:

While reading Catch-22  by Joseph Heller

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Vanity Plate for the Day – QD RX

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This one was on the back of a Honda Accord.  QD is the medical abbreviation for every day.  And of course, RX is the abbreviation for a prescription. It was a young woman driving the vehicle so I am assuming a newly minted pharmacist.

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Quote for the Day – Samuel Beckett

“Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.” ~~ from Molloy by Samuel Beckett

 

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Quote for the Day – Tom Waits

Tom_Waits_3“All that you’ve loved is all you own”   ~ Tom Waits

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Vanity Plate for the Day – G8R-FAN

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This one was on a Toyota Camry… Did not have a Florida tag, so I am guessing a transplant or they went to school at the University of Florida.   Of course that could be greater fan.  They are better than a lukewarm fan, and working on being the greatest fan???

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