Tponetom Member Username: Tponetom
Post Number: 226 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 4:11 pm: | |
Do Detroiters have to be adroit, and in either case, do they have just plain droits or not? Who can answer? What ever the answer, the check is in the mail. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4534 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 8:56 pm: | |
We need to be doubly adroit. We face great challenges. We need to cast off the past and move adroitly and fearlessly into the future counting on our many talents and advantages to carry us through. We need to progress toward international metropolitan union of all our communities and achieve racial and cultural healing and harmony. |
Tponetom Member Username: Tponetom
Post Number: 227 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 10:09 pm: | |
Lowell: I am flabbergasted. What a great answer! My question was not'tongue in cheek.' We, meaning America, have languished in our 'droits for the last 45 years or so. (Our rights, our privileges.) JFK put it simply: "Ask not what you can do for your country,,,,,,,," Your quote, "metropolitan union of all communities" speaks volumes. Single entities, like Detroit are no longer relevant. Metropolitan Detroit is the future. Adroit or Droit, that is the question. the answer has to be homogenous. |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2773 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 7:43 am: | |
Wow...I'm in awe! This is no longer a "silly question" thread. Thanks! |
Chuckles Member Username: Chuckles
Post Number: 178 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 8:37 am: | |
Metropolitan Detroit is too confining and image inciting..... SouthEastern Lower Michigan really defines the area... |
The_rock Member Username: The_rock
Post Number: 2137 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 9:11 am: | |
adroit--a great word. Combination of Latin and French. There is even a USS Adroit, a minesweeper. A synonym for adroit is dexterous. I wonder if that is really Dexter bus? Don't tell, jjaba. Sorry, Kathleen, for being "silly". Back to being adroit, Detroit. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 2051 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 10:28 am: | |
Detroit used to have many gruntled workers in the auto industry. Today......not so much. |
Tponetom Member Username: Tponetom
Post Number: 228 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 1:02 pm: | |
Re: My post 227 I really screwed up that 'Kennedy' quote. It should have read: "Ask not what your country can do for you,,,,,,,,,,, Chuckles: You are correct. SE Michigan will become the ultimate solution. Rock: Is nothing sacred anymore? I picked up the word, adroit, when I began my handball career, fifty years ago Dexterity it is. Many "righties" start out 'fisting' the ball. A smooth, naturel left hand swing takes years to cultivate on the courts and very few succeeded, including myself. My favorite synonym phrase (compliments of Webster’s 3rd) for the word "droit" is as follows: Droit du sei-gneur [F. right of the lord] the supposed legal or customary right at the time of a marriage whereby a feudal lord had sexual relations with a vassal’s bride on her wedding night. Hmmmmmm. Those Frenchmen! |
The_rock Member Username: The_rock
Post Number: 2138 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 3:42 pm: | |
"Ask not what the vassal's bride can do for the vassal, but what the feudal lord can do for the vassal's bride." Another way of looking at it. Keep swinging, Tponetom. 50 years. WOW! By now you must have dexterity mastered. |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2725 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 4:35 pm: | |
You want dexterity, watch me with the TV remote. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4537 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 7:39 pm: | |
Ha ha you all crack me up. [Climbing down from my pulpit.] |
Tponetom Member Username: Tponetom
Post Number: 229 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 8:27 pm: | |
Lowell, et al, In the beginning there was light, like in lightness. Then it got a little heavy, like in heaviness. So I will continue it in that mode. In reference to <the_rock> , I submit the following: I am obviously making reference to 'Rocks' unfinished statement, to wit: “WOW! By now you must have dexterity master,.,,WHAT?” iF YOU HAVE TO ASK, DON'T BOTHER. “We will always have Omar.” (I stole that line from 'Casablanca") “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough. A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness. Oh, Wilderness were Paradise.” 1) 32539. Khayyam, Omar. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 NUMBER: 32539 QUOTATION. With that kind of magic, no one needs that dexterity master,,,,,thing. No more comments solicited. Never did I imagine that I would find kindred ship in this Forum. |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2727 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 9:15 pm: | |
"Any bird can build a nest, but it's not everyone can lay an egg." -- Stan Laurel |
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