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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums1. He misspells Nobel 4 times in 3 rage tweets. 2. It's Pulitzer. 🤦🏼♀️
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SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)He's crazy.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)he is really just the worst
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)klook
(12,157 posts)lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)swallow some of this.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)n/t
NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,166 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,944 posts)Road Apple.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Now, the delinquent knows something about alley apples, and he's almost as smart as one.
RVN VET71
(2,692 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,393 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Never heard of maroon as anything but a brownish red color and how Bugs Bunny said moron. Is this comm9nly know, or am I just ignorant/naive?
Backseat Driver
(4,393 posts)when Bugs' language was voiced and the intended audience. I remember having Viewmaster slide cartridges for Little Black Sambo and never thought of the alternate viewpoints that succeeded that story...nor anything weird about being abandoned on some isolated uninhabited place, marine or a "safe" (for/from whom) location in swamp land; in fact, I never had a thought about persecuted people of color defined as red, brown, or mixed.
https://www.saada.org/tides/article/little-black-sambo
Nevertheless, I love finding and decoding our language in its origins.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)were probably 'marooned' on those islands and in those places?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)I think his tiny brain is fixated on Nobel Prizes because he wants (and will not get) the Peace Prize so very desperately, even though he can't spell it. Anyhow, if he can't spell Nobel do we really expect him to be able to spell Pulitzer?
Captain Zero
(6,811 posts)St. Louis to pick it up.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,393 posts)https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pew
OTOH: An insecure page on the web: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/02/p-u-means-stink-origins-smelly-words/
Often used to accuse someone of exceeding his allotted level of funk, P.U. is, surprisingly, not an acronym, but, rather, likely was derived simply from the pronunciation of its parent word.
Dating back to the early 17th century, a common exclamation of contempt for a foul odor was pyoo. As English spelling had yet to become standardized, this word was also written as pue, peugh, pew and pue. Although each variant was correctly pronounced pyü, often in practice, and particularly to express outrage, both syllables were stretched out with the pronunciation: pē-ū (pee-YOU), which, over the years, has been changed into P.U.
As for where the 17th century versions came from, this is anybodys guess, with some linguists postulating that perhaps it came from the Latin puteo, meaning stink, rotten, putrid.
If youre wondering about the origins of some of the other of the many words we have to describe things that smell bad, stink dates back to the mid-13th century, as does smell (although smelly is a relatively recent invention, first being seen in the mid-19th century).
Stench dates to the dawn of the 13th century and derives from Proto-Germanic, *stankwiz, and is related to the Old High German stanch, as well as the Old Saxon, stanc.
Fetid was a child of the Latin word fetidus, and dates back to the early 15th century, as does its cousin (now in disuse), fetor.
Reek, which originally was a verb meaning to smoke, took on the connotation of to smell bad in the 17th century.
Meaning just a smell or scent, odor entered the English language about 1300 and came from the Old French odor and the Anglo-French, odour, themselves children of the Latin word, odor, of the same meaning.
Redolent, also doesnt necessarily mean a bad odor, and it dates back to the early 15th century and Old French, as well as the Latin word, redolentem.
Malodorous, was created in the 19th century by simply combining the common prefix, mal-, with odorous.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)Talitha
(6,593 posts)tanyev
(42,568 posts)JPbelgium
(89 posts)...against the blatant plagiarism and abuse of an national symbol.
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tanyev
(42,568 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)They didn't get any Nobels or nobles.
Takket
(21,577 posts)thing......
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)When introducing MLK's daughter.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)I thought the happy couple might be enjoying the day together.
tanyev
(42,568 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)a present of Divorce Papers.........Makes you wonder why she has not done so all these years????????
Maybe she knows that he is worth nothing, she and Barron would be destitute.......
but then, Hey, she grew it, she can chew it.........
She wanted her uber wealthy lifestyle, she was foolish to think she wouldn't pay for it the rest of her life.......
She sold herself out, and is truly nothing more than a extremely high priced escort.......
tanyev
(42,568 posts)A new $$ agreement was negotiated to procure her services as FLOTUS for 4 years.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I'm glad all that surgery healed those 'kidneys' and got rid of those wrinkles around her eyes.
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)They probably weren't in the same zip code today.
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)niyad
(113,348 posts)ironflange
(7,781 posts)We learn something new from Dumb Donald every day, it seems.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Link to tweet
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Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Stupidest son of a bitch I ever taught
kairos12
(12,862 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,355 posts)johnnyfins
(823 posts)He knows how to spell Nobel and.he knows its really a Pulitzer he is talking about. He is horseshitting. ANYTHING to get the press off of "Disinfectant". He is doing it on purpose. Especially since all of the reporting on the Mueller investigation was proven true.
oldsoftie
(12,555 posts)I know people who actually think all his stupid shit IS an act, just to "mess with the media". No. He really IS that stupid.
ALBliberal
(2,342 posts)playing dumb.... maybe he is setting himself up for the 25th. Anything to get out of the job. He may also be setting himself up for a not-guilty by reason of insanity plea for all those state prosecutors who will be coming after him when he is CRUSHED in November.
vapor2
(1,248 posts)Yavin4
(35,442 posts)I will just leave this here.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)Is he giving us another clue as to what Putin and Trump and McConnell have coming down the pipeline?
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)Beartracks
(12,816 posts)dalton99a
(81,516 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,490 posts)1) Based on today's Twitter meltdown, I think we may have underestimated the narcissistic injury the widespread mocking of Trump's disinfectant comments. This was not criticism -- it was mocking. That's intolerable.
Link to tweet
nolabear
(41,987 posts)SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)really?
ecstatic
(32,712 posts)I found it on this very helpful article: https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trump/trump-tries-again-to-use-sarcasm-defense-after-noble-prize-tweet-flub/
Link to tweet
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niyad
(113,348 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)"See? Look. I'm joking again. Just like last time. But I'm smarter than you. That's why you don't get it."