Notices by David Hunt (davehunt@social.mayfirst.org), page 16

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launch

/lɔːn(t)ʃ/
verb
[with object]
1 Set (a boat) in motion by pushing it or allowing it to roll into the water.
1.2 Send (a missile, satellite, or spacecraft) on its course.

Origin
Middle English variant of Old French lancier (see lance).

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NASA launched a "test article" this morning. It rose magestically into the morning sky carrying an Orion command module mockup aloft to test the flight abort systems. Anyone with a speedy web connection could watch live.

@ParadeGrotesque

this is why, if one sees Apple being lauded for 'privacy' one should recognize it as an implicit statement thar privacy is for those who can afford it

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dander meaning 1

/ˈdandə/
noun
informal in phrase get/have one's dander up
Lose one's temper.

Origin
Mid 19th century (originally US): of unknown origin.

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Jeanne's demeanor had never been keener until Lou cut her off on the highway. That got her dander up and she fumed the rest of the way home.

@zudn

My wife recently bought me a great T-Shirt:

I am silently correcting
your grammar.

I wear it proudly.

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creed

/kriːd/
noun
1 A system of religious belief; a faith.
1.1 often "the Creed" - A formal statement of Christian beliefs, especially the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
1.2 A set of beliefs or aims which guide someone's actions.

Origin
Old English, from Latin credo.

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He thought she was pretty.
She thought he was witty.
But families with no shared creed.
An edict: "No marriage" was decreed.

♲ @RedRegenerated@twitter.com: ME: *wearing medieval armour* I'd like to book a room.

HOTEL RECEPTIONIST: How many nights?

ME: *lifts visor* Just me.

Let's go to the poool todaaaay.

-- Robin Snorkels

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zugzwang

/ˈzʌɡzwaŋ/ /ˈzuːɡzwaŋ/
noun
mass noun
Chess
A situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.

Origin
Early 20th century from German Zug ‘move’ + Zwang ‘compulsion’.

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To a pawn, life's inevitable zugzwang comes with no particular public notice.

Weed/Wildflower Wednesday

Dame's Rocket - Hesperis matronalis
An invasive, tall plant with four petals and a flower cluster with alternate, sessile toothed lance shaped leaves. It is often confused with phlox, but phlox has opposite leaves and five petals for each flower.

From late May
Prohibited in Massachusetts, and yet, here it is. That's the trick of invasive plants.

#weeds
#wildflowers
#plants
#botany

Foul Ball

It does not always matter how hard the ball is hit.
Without a fair direction, It doesn't help a bit.
And, you know, if it's early in the count,
The pesky strike count certainly will mount.

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#Sports