Brain Space: Word Of The Day

vivify – to endue with life, to make alive, to animate

Rhyming Words:  beautify, crucify, falsify, electrify, justify, dignify, certify, mystify

Cool Sayings and 2 Word Phrases

1. I’m a bitch and your point is……?
2. I did it because I can. I can because I want to. I wanted to because you said I couldn’t.
3. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest person alive!
4. Go find a cow because I’m sick of your bull!
5. Please don’t interrupt me while I am ignoring you!
6. If you are going to ride my ass at least pull my hair.
7. Don’t hate me because you ain’t me.
8. If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
9. You laugh because I am different – I laugh because your all the same.
10. I am multi-talented – I can talk and piss you off at the same time.
11. Let me write that down in my “Things I Don’t Give A Fuck About” notebook.

BrainSpace: Word Of The Day

Todays word of the day from dictionary.com is:

trice \TRYS\, noun:
A very short time; an instant; a moment; — used chiefly in the phrase “in a trice.”

thesaurus.com: flash, instant, moment

rhyming words: lice, price, give me some ice, high price, suffice, vice, splice, beau bice, concise, to the toss of the dice, three blind mice, i’m not naughty i am nice, red beans and rice, entice, asking price, device, chicken fried rice, word of advice, explosive device

BrainSpace: Quote Of The Day

Today’s quote comes from quotatio.com:
“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.” – Rod Serling

BrainSpace: Quote Of The Day

Today’s quote was found at PigPog – Creativity Anywhere. This quote is awesome!

From Casey at the excellent A Personal Tao:

“I think it’s more fun to dance every moment as living, even if the partner is a flying cat.”

Mew.

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The Monthly Top 10: Cool Phrases

Top 10 Cool Phrases For The Month of March:

1. I maybe crazy or maybe insane, least I know you won’t forget my name.
2. Just because you can reproduce, doesn’t mean you should.
3. Don’t talk about it…BE about it.
4. I may be too old to cut the mustard, but you could still lick the jar.
5. Love is a four letter word. So is dick!
6. Regret this!!
7. I am my own crown of thorns.
8. I win! You suck! I rule!
9. Wait for the one who will make you smile like no one else.
10. And there you were holding her hand while I was lost trying to understand.

Southern Expressions

Once, when I was a little girl, my entire family had gathered at my great grandmothers house as we did and still do every Friday night and every Sunday after church. My great aunt worked at a local plant in the office. She was late coming in that night for dinner. Upon her arrival, she walked through the door declaring, “I tell ya’ll what – I’m just t-i-r-d tarred!” I remember pondering on that for a moment then looked at her and said, “your not tarred your a turd!” Thanks to everyones laughter, I did not get in trouble with my mom who was giving me “the look.” My aunt said, “see, I’m so tarred; I can’t even spell the word!” Now that is tired!

Speaking of “tarred,” there are other forms of this word such as “tar.” Which, of course, is a tire. When I first moved back to Scottsboro, my boyfriend was driving my car. He says to me, “Nicole, you need to put a tar on the front of this car.” Confused, I asked, “A what?” He says, “you need to put a tar on your car.” Sitting there thinking about this for a moment, I thought to myself, “now why would I want to put tar on the front of my car.” Thinking this was some sort of country remedy that I did not know about, I asked him, “Mike, why would I want to put tar on the front of my car?” He looked at me like I was stupid and simply replied, “well a tire – is that better?” OOOOHHHHHH! By the way, a “tar arn” is the tire tool you change a tire with…………

The best country remedy ever taught to me, by my great grandfather, was when I was stung by a red wasp. I was probably six or seven years old and it was a beautiful summer day. He and my great grandmother were “shucking” corn outside when I begin screaming and crying. Picking me up, he looked at my sting and said, “I can make it feel better.” Thinking he was going to kiss where the wasp had stung me, I was horrified when he started working up his chew of tobacco or snuff – whatever it was – I wiggled to get away. Before I could make my escape, he spit it out into his hand and slapped it onto my sting and it was heaven. Pure heaven!

A “ferner” is a foreigner or someone “not from around these parts.” Could be “from up yonder ways”, one never really knows.

If you are out 4-wheel driving or riding the 4-wheeler and you get stuck in the mud. You are “marred up” not marred down. “Marred up in it and plum up agin it.”

…………..and there you have it!

BrainSpace: Quote Of The Day

Today’s quote from The Quotations Page:

“The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.”

Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

BrainSpace: Word Of The Day

Today’s word of the day from dictionary.com:

brio: \BREE-oh\, noun:
Enthusiastic vigor; vivacity; liveliness; spirit.

thesaurus.com: action, buoyancy, impressiveness, intensity, spirit, panache

rhyming words: leo, cleo, cheerio, is that so; curley, larry, and moe; serpentino, dario, cool daddio, low blow, gotta go, go with the flow, thats my beau, baby doe, friend or foe, ho ho ho, anybody seen joe? that was low, the answer is no, edgar allen poe, hard row to hoe, ouch you stepped on my toe, woe, hey! yo!

BrainSpace: A Phrase A Week

This weeks phrase from The Phrase Finder:

“A sledgehammer to crack a nut“

Meaning: ‘Using a sledge-hammer to crack a nut’ is using disproportionate force or expense to overcome a minor problem.