Word of the Day for Thursday December 5, 2002

booboisie \boob-wah-ZEE\, noun:
A class of people regarded as stupid or foolish.

Until then, he'd dismissed Hollywood as a purveyor of machine-made fodder for the booboisie, but he found, much to his surprise, that the movies weren't nearly as bad as he'd claimed. -- Terry Teachout, quoted in "Writing Mencken," by Kathryn Jean Lopez, [1]National Review Online, November 15, 2002.
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Snow, snow, snow everywhere! Bet is snowed in, Mike-the-nonblogger has snow... and what do you want to bet that all of you who are praying for a white Christmas are going to get a big thaw on December 23rd? The weather is ironic like that. Like rain on your wedding day, right Alanis?