Saturday, December 18, 2010
Recipe of the day
Warm Christmas Punch Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 bottle (32 ounces) cranberry juice
- 1 can (32 ounces) pineapple juice
- 1/3 cup red-hot candies
- 1 cinnamon stick (3-1/2 inches)
- Additional cinnamon sticks, optional
Directions
- In a 3-qt. slow cooker, combine juices, red-hots and cinnamon stick. Cook on low for 2-5 hours. Discard cinnamon stick before serving. Use additional cinnamon sticks as stirrers if desired. Yield: 2 quarts.
Daily Devotinal
No one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him. I Corinthians 2:9
Anything you imagine is inadequate. Anything anyone imagines is inadequate. No one has come close. No one. Think of all the songs about heaven. All the artists’ portrayals. All the lessons preached, poems written, and chapters drafted.
When it comes to describing heaven, we are all happy failures.
Anything you imagine is inadequate. Anything anyone imagines is inadequate. No one has come close. No one. Think of all the songs about heaven. All the artists’ portrayals. All the lessons preached, poems written, and chapters drafted.
When it comes to describing heaven, we are all happy failures.
Word of the day
Trollop:
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A slovenly, messy, unkempt woman. 2. A woman of loose moral character.
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A slovenly, messy, unkempt woman. 2. A woman of loose moral character.
Notes: It might be hard to call today's Word a 'good' word but it is interesting in that it represents a large pool of terms for women of loose morals, including harlot, strumpet, tart, tramp, slut, floozy, to mention just the mentionables. The list of words referring to males of loose morals is much smaller, e.g. philanderer, womanizer, gigolo, lady's man, and less negative—in fact, lady's man is all but positive. While we cannot change attitudes by changing vocabulary, our vocabulary does, in fact, provide compelling evidence of our attitudes over the course of time.
In Play: This word today is used mostly as an insult for someone we dislike (or secretly envy): "That trollop, Gladys Boise, has been seeing the boss a lot lately; I'll bet she gets a promotion soon." Even though most of us avoid trollops, others admit to the enjoyment of curling up in bed with a good Trollope now and then (Barchester Towers is my favorite).
Word History: Today's rather shady word is based on the verb troll, which originally meant "to ramble, to wander about with no particular destination". This word was borrowed from French, which borrowed it from an ancestor of German trollen "to toddle". The group [op] was then added to trol- by analogy with words like gallop and wallop, since [op] is not a suffix in English.
Poem of the day
Deceptions,twist,and outright lies
Define the words of fools;
But those who follow God's Word show
A life where wisdom rules.--Sper
Define the words of fools;
But those who follow God's Word show
A life where wisdom rules.--Sper
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