a privy counsel.

Well no matter what we talk about there's always someone to tell us how to do it.

M. Tongue-firmly-in-cheek Bailey

I think that usage is widely prevalent.

And yet i still have no clue. Id love to be able to use it in a sentance: that makes sense. But I suspect I'll mever have any reason to use it.

MB

I don't care how it's spelled, as long I have some available.

"Just hand me the Chocolate and no one will get hurt", right ?

Mb

The very best Chocolate I've ever had and we got it every Christmas from Norway from people my parents knew, was Kong Haakon. A huge box ( no longer, its much much smaller now), wonderful rum soaked chocos, coconut and rum, dark Chocolate that puts American garbage (all HFCS, all the tme) not just t...

Well Edom makes sense, especially since there is so much in the major prophets that speaks of how very much it is 'disapproved of' by God. I had never really believed it was Russia except so many argued so loudly that it was; I began to be persuaded. Even espousing it. I much appreciate Roy setting ...

Well, it's all Greek to me. I DID TAKE Latin in High School, lo, these many years ago. And French. (I was in an experimental class with No written words, learned to speak it not to read it, which made for some awkward moments in College). I'm so cornfusded. M. Whose-brain-isn't-wired-that-way Bailey

I want to comment also on the fact that "our fight is not with flesh and blood but powers and principalities......" Powers= spiritual beings ( Magog) who rule certain Principalities (places)=Gog. But maybe I'm overreaching. But i don't see any coorelation with Judeo-Christian and Gog/magog...

Don't think so. The gog/magog thing, while Biblical, is interpreted as allegorical by most, except for those with a particular eschatalogical interpretation. PL, I know I'm not by any stretch of the imagination "most", but i am pretty sure Gog and Magog are not allegorical, I've always th...

Of course, an oubliette is a place you put things you wish to forget about, whereas an abditory is a hiding place. An important difference, no? Slava, both are places a person can be. Both are secretive. One is for hiding the other is for imprisoning. My brain went to oubliette when I saw abditory ...

I saw this and hoped Dr.Beard would help me understand this by writing it up as a WOTD. Voir dire (/ˈvwɑr ˌdiər/) is a legal phrase that refers to a variety of procedures connected with jury trials. It originally referred to an oath taken by jurors to tell the truth (Latin: verum dicere), i.e., to s...

I just saw it somewhere, i will use it now,



Mark learns-new-words Bailey

ki·bosh ˈkīˌbäSH/Submit nouninformal noun: kibosh; noun: kybosh put an end to; dispose of decisively. "he put the kibosh on the deal" synonyms: put a stop to, stop, halt, put an end to, quash, block, cancel, scotch, thwart, prevent, suppress; informal stymie; scuttle Mark keeps-trying-to-s...

ABDITORY Pronunciation (US) IPA(key): /ˈæb.dɪt.ɹi/, /ˈæb.dɪt.ə.ɹi/ Noun abditory (plural abditories) (rare) A concealed location used for storage or to hide items. [mid 17th century][1] Translations place for hiding or preserving Better than an oubliette, so much more er voluntary Mark off-to-my-abd...

Well, the poker illustration is more logical and nicer than the toilet derivation. My father would have disagreed his humor of choice was all the potty sort. But i agree, the mental video, not my favorite, of flushing four times brings back memories of being a janitor in a downtown office building....

On a fun note, a Canadian friend does not say "asphalt." She puts an "h" between the s and p. I don't think it's a Canadian thing, but I could be wrong. I spent last winter in Alberta, and there are a few funny, to my ears pronounciations, skel LEE tal, for skeletal, this makes ...