Daily Topics - Wednesday September 19th, 2012
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day...
Hour One: Romneyhood...steal from the poor & give to the rich - Mark Williams / Plus, pirates, global warming and the Flying Spaghetti Monster...oh my!
Hour Two: Impeach Scalia!
Hour Three: Citizens United, trade & jobs - Thom has a conversation with Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Comments
#2
Piracy: Hostile Takeover without the paperwork.
#3
I think the pirate word "arr" is the naval term "aye" with a presumed final silent letter r unsilenced. There's another word in American English that gained an r in the same way, but I can't think of it right now.
Usually it goes the other way, of course. We get "cuss" from "curse" and "ass" from "arse".
#4
Ignivomously ugly? There's a band named Ignivomous, and it's supposed to mean "vomiting fire". I'm not sure the etymology is correct, but it does get the idea across.
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