Chuckle 1126

Chuckle 1126
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Carrie M of Sacramento CA!)

~Every Story has a Moral~
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

Barbara Walters of Television's 20/20 did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their husbands. She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands. From Ms Walter's vantage point, despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even further back behind their husbands and are happy to maintain the old custom. Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do you now seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?" The woman looked Ms. Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation, said, "Land Mines." ***


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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Monday August 7, 2006
peremptory \puh-REMP-tuh-ree\, adjective:1. Precluding or putting an end to all debate or action.2. Not allowing contradiction or refusal; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.3. Expressive of urgency or command.4. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; dictatorial; dogmatic.

He would dismiss the whole business . . . with a peremptory snort.-- R.M. Berry, Leonardo's Horse

When she meets with his angry and peremptory refusal, Lucy travels to his country estate; but, entering the woods that surround it, she finds that Charles has defended himself from just such unwanted visits by girding the estate with a number of steel traps.-- Henry Alford, "Slaves of the Hamptons", New York Times, August 8, 1999

Peremptory letters from faceless financiers.-- George F. Will, Bunts

And we're provided with mini-narratives familiar even to those with only a passing knowledge of Russian history: the woman who stands day after day outside the political prison in the frigid cold, hoping to catch a glimpse of her husband; the collisions with the imperious and peremptory bureaucrats.-- Jim Shepard, "Dead Souls", New York Times, September 26, 1999

The voice that came over the wire was full of grovel and Hollywood subjunctives. It was a voice trained to cut through the din of nightclubs and theater rehearsals, a flexible instrument that could shift from adulation to abuse in a single syllable, ingratiating yet peremptory, a rich syrup of unction and specious authority.-- Sidney Joseph Perelman, quoted in the New York Times, March 15, 1981
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