adjective:
1. Bearing or bringing disease.
2. Infected with or contaminated by a pestilential disease.
3. Morally evil or dangerous to society; pernicious.
4. Bothersome; troublesome; annoying.
Pestiferous is from Latin pestifer, “pestilential,” from pestis, “pestilence,” + -fer, “bearing.”
No, I did not make this word up, but it does sound like something Willy Wonka would say.
And what is pestiferous to [...]
We went to the dog show this past weekend to see the pooches, because being home, letting the same Dog in and out, in and out, all day, just isn’t enough.
We saw all kinds of fuzzy, nervous, uptight types. But the dogs at the end of their leashes were sweet.
I [...]
Kid happily jumped into fashion design this week after I watched the finale episode of Project Runway while she was around. Next thing I knew, she hauled out toys wearing her dresses. She even has a jiggly runway walk herself.
“Two will be IN, and one will be OUT!” said she in her best [...]
Last night, I had a golden opportunity slip right through my fingers, my fingers that have handed over countless movie tickets to ticket rippers, eaten billions of buckets of popcorn while watching larger-than-life images roll in front of me, and grabbed innumerable armrests during shocker moments of thrillers.
An A.C. Nielsen Movie Survey guy [...]
noun:
1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage.
2. A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, or overbearing.
The intrepid heroines range from Unn the Deep Minded, the Viking virago who colonized Iceland, to Sue Hendrikson, a school dropout who became one of the great experts on amber, fossils and shipwrecks.
– Ann Prichard, “Coffee-table: Africa, [...]
You may not have seen Lars and the Real Girl when it played for 2 days at your local theater, but I am here to tell you to find it, see it, and when it comes out next month on DVD, RENT IT! Heck, just buy the dang thing.
Sure, the idea of a guy [...]
I’m working on all these limericks for the bookstore contest here, and now I can’t stop! And they’re just getting worse!
“Blogging’s the thing!” they all say.
Thousands in cash every day!
Just upload and push,
To show baby’s fresh tush,
And your Paypal brims over; yes, way!
Oy, I’m irritating myself. Where’s a haiku when you need one?
Anyone [...]
