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Uncommon words and their meanings.

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Posted by Marionville

QUIBBLE - Noun…a slight objection or criticism about a trivial matter. “the only quibble about this book is the price”. Synonyms; cavil, carp, complaint, query. QUIBBLE - Verb…argue or raise objections about a trivial matter “they ...

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Quotes

1 week ago1w

Posted by Marionville

“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get”…………. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

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Trump Pinata

1 week ago1w

Posted by EricJones

I understand that book sellers are moving all of trumps books to fiction/fantasy.

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Progressives, Socialists, and Black/Palestinian Lives Matter

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by William_Mary

Ukraine Timeline Tells the Tale Without historical context, which is buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story, but journalists are cut short for trying to tell it now. The way to prevent...

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Movie Lovers

1 month ago1m

Posted by AlanCliffe

Bikeriders on DVD. A fictional film vaguely based on a book of the same title that features photographs of nineteen-sixties outlaw bikers. Not crazy about the film. For one thing, the founder/president of the dominant club speaks and acts too much ...

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General Forum

Jan 13Jan 13

Posted by AlanCliffe

A Hammer and Some Nails An unmarried man in later middle age, handy enough around his own house, undertook to refurbish a cedar chest he'd bought used some years ago for a property he had since sold. Two of its feet had got broken in transit. It's ...

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Progressives, Socialists, and Black/Palestinian Lives Matter

Jan 5Jan 5

Posted by William_Mary

Biden & Make-Believe Democracy If a large chunk of the public can be persuaded that a man who is incapable of finding the door is “sharp as a tack,” they can be made to believe a lot of other things too Only in the world of political ...

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Progressives, Socialists, and Black/Palestinian Lives Matter

Jan 1Jan 1

Posted by William_Mary

The right-wing legacy of Jimmy Carter The death of former President Jimmy Carter, at the age of 100, has become the occasion for his public canonization, as the corporate media, former and current US presidents Biden, Trump, Clinton and Bush, ...

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Humour, Fun, Chuckles, Laughs, or Cutes, From Everywhere.

Dec 4, 2024Dec 2024

Posted by Zealandia

I'm writing a book about reverse psychology, Please don't buy it... Plus, for the people who usually comment or respond, please don’t do that for this post. Thank you.

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Conservative Bashers And Progressive Pushers

Nov 26, 2024Nov 2024

Posted by backtobasics

We need to take a page out of the conservatives play book and get our history taught in schools

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Quotes

Nov 23, 2024Nov 2024

Posted by Marionville

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force”……………….Dorothy Parker (in a book review).

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Just for Laughs

Oct 31, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by zeuser

May all your dishes look like they did in the recipe book. Happy Halloween!

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Progressives, Socialists, and Black/Palestinian Lives Matter

Oct 26, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by William_Mary

October Unsurprised Journalist Craig Unger has used Robert Parry’s vast archive to help nail down the 1980 October Surprise story, but he diverged greatly from Parry when it came to also criticizing the Democrats. Author Craig Unger made use...

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News & Links

Oct 26, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by vocaloldfart

@denoPenno nope your post displays as such Welcome to the Community Agnostic is a non-profit community for people who require evidence before forming a belief. We recognize that believing something on faith alone, that is, having a conviction ...

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Community Senate

Oct 25, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by Killtheskyfairy

Anyone else having trouble commenting on posts? I keep getting this screen: Welcome to the Community Agnostic is a non-profit community for people who require evidence before forming a belief. We recognize that believing something on faith alone, ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Oct 22, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by HippieChick58

IDIOLECT id·i·o·lect /ˈidēəˌlek(t)/ noun the speech habits peculiar to a particular person. "in his strange idiolect, he preferred to call angels “angelicals“" The language quirks and conventions that distinguish one group of languages...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Oct 21, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by HippieChick58

I just found the BEST book for word/language lovers. It is not a new book, written in 1990, but I am enjoying every word of it. The Mother Tongue -- English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson. Now so as to not violate the...

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Quotes

Oct 20, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by Marionville

“Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait two years to find out whether or not it was funny”………………Alain de Botton.

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General & Hellos

Oct 17, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by Ryo1

This is scary. Nuclear Weapons The President's Sole Authority In the United States, the President alone has the authority to launch nuclear weapons. He has no requirement to consult with anyone about the decision. How did the U.S. ...

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Politics

Oct 17, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by snytiger6

LINKMcConnell privately slammed Trump as ‘stupid’ and ‘despicable’ after 2020 election -- The Hill

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News & Links

Oct 17, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by Flyingsaucesir

In his latest book, "War," Bob Woodward reports that after he was fired from the presidency, Dementia J Trump had 7 (seven!) private phone calls with the Russian dictator Vlad "the Invader" Putin. It is highly probable that Trump's conversations ...

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Quotes

Oct 16, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by pedigojr

Interesting idea from a Book, “Fuzz when nature breaks the law” Concerning so called ‘pests,’ “Rodents are a good bellwether. If people can be less cruel to rats if it even crossed their minds to be less cruel to a rat, then things are ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 15, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by MacStriker

Survey -- Hell

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Oct 15, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by pedigojr

This item has a plural basis: palpebral: eyelid. From the Mary Roach book, “Fuzz when nature breaks the law.” ”Some part of me hopes the animal has been set free. Here Grant is trying to look round the side of the head and touch the side of ...

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Quotes

Oct 15, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by Killtheskyfairy

On this date in 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche was born in a town near Leipzig, Germany. “Fritz” was the son of a Lutheran minister who died when Friedrich was 4 and the grandson of two Lutheran pastors. At age 20, he wrote his sister that one could ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Oct 11, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by pedigojr

And a laugh crepuscular: From a new book by the fun writer, Mary Roach titled “Fuzz – when nature breaks the law.” ”Deer are crepuscular, a word born for dermatology but in fact meaning ‘active at dawn or dusk.” ”In 2002, a North ...

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Posts

Oct 11, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by vocaloldfart

We are now in Terminator territory At one time I was thinking AI got dangerous, we could just unplug the computer. Now I’m not so sure…. What if it started actually killing people on a large scale? It’s worth asking… ...

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General & Hellos

Oct 8, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by FrayedBear

Germany's Black Holocaust: 1890-1945: Details Never Before Revealed! Book by Firpo Carr In the 1890s Blacks were tortured in German concentration camps in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) when Adolph Hitler was only a child. Colonial German ...

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Just for Laughs

Oct 6, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by glennlab

Pick your book of instructions carefully

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Posts

Oct 6, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by SpikeTalon

Last week started playing a PC game called Metro 2033 Redux, and getting towards the end of the game now. Enjoying it so far, moderately challenging. Heard the game was based off of a book with the same title. Will need to look into the sequel, Metro...

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General & Hellos

Oct 3, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by Ryo1

An interesting guy, and he is super intelligent. Worth a watch. Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-British satirist and co-host of the podcast TRIGGERnometry. He is also the best-selling author of the book, ‘An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West’....

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Oct 3, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by pedigojr

Two with the same meaning, stot and pronking: stott stotted; stotting intransitive verb : to bound with a stiff-legged gait From one of my favorite authors, Mary Roach in her latest book: “Fuzz – when nature breaks the law.” ”To spend a ...

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General & Hellos

Sep 28, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by FrayedBear

Well worth the 73 minute watch whether you're Republican, Democrat, Green or undecided, rich, poor, world citizen or slave of the American hegemony.

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Sep 25, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by pedigojr

Valetudinarian: noun • 1. a person who is unduly anxious about their health. Sounds like me but not sure the word ‘unduly’ applies. From, of course Alexander McCall Smith’s book “Emma, a modern retelling.” ”My son, said his mother ...

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Politics

Sep 25, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by snytiger6

LINK‘The rest of the world is watching.’ London mayor cautions Americans against reelecting Trump. -- Politico

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Trump Pinata

Sep 24, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by nogod4me

There has been wishful thinking and movies about going back in time to kill Hitler and movies about killing the Antichrist (Narcissistic Dictators). One of the best is the Omen with Gregory Peck. Another good book and movie is Stephen King's "The ...

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Posts

Sep 21, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by SpikeTalon

Rose Wilder Lane—novelist, journalist, founding mother of the modern libertarian movement, and very likely uncredited co-author of her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books—was also, less famously, a columnist in the ...

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News & Links

Sep 21, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by snytiger6

LINKThe New Era of Deadly Back-Alley Abortions Is Here – Mother Jones

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Conservative Bashers And Progressive Pushers

Sep 21, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by johnnyrobish

Trump Slams Ungrateful Jews - Vows No Immigration From ‘Infested’ Countries Donald Trump, speaking before the Israeli-American Council, a group largely funded by billionaire ultra-conservative donor Miriam Adelson, said that if reelected, he...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Sep 20, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by pedigojr

Zeugma: A zeugma is a figure of speech in which one "governing" word or phrase modifies two distinct parts of a sentence. Often, the governing word will mean something different when applied to each part, as in the sentence, "He took his coat and his...

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