The Paralympics tonoght!

1 Hour difference between London and South Africa, IE 20:00 our time is 19:00 over there.

truncate \TRUHNG-keyt\, verb:

1. To shorten by cutting off a part; cut short: Truncate detailed explanations.
2. Mathematics, Computers. To shorten (a number) by dropping a digit or digits: The numbers 1.4142 and 1.4987 can both be truncated to 1.4.

Oh I say, I feel truncated sometime...

Well I say...

...it is a lovely day here in Sunland on Lupus Den.

bathetic \buh-THET-ik\, adjective:

Displaying or characterized by insincere emotions: the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas.

I am no fan of soaps...

Oh, I say!

amnesty

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am·nes·ty

   [am-nuh-stee] Show IPA noun, plural am·nes·ties, verb, am·nes·tied, am·nes·ty·ing.

noun

1.

a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.

2.

Law . an act of forgiveness for past offenses, especially to a class of persons as a whole.

3.

a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense.

Today is the day

fabulist \FAB-yuh-list\, noun:

1. A liar.
2. A person who invents or relates fables.

Well yesterdays word:

No idea why...

Way to go!

compère \KOM-pair\, noun:

1. A host, master of ceremonies, or the like, especially of a stage revue or television program.

verb:
1. To act as compère for: to compère the new game show.

An absolutely incomparable position...

The acronym INRI represents the Latin inscription IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM (Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum), in English reads as "Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews".^[13] John 19:20 states that this was written in three languages: Hebrew, Latin and Greek.^[4] The Greek version reads ΙΝΒΙ.^[4]

Devotional enthusiasm greeted the discovery by Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza in 1492 of what was acclaimed as the actual tablet, said to have been brought to Rome by Saint Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine.^[14]

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pelagic \puh-LAJ-ik\, adjective:

1. Of or pertaining to the open seas or oceans.
2. Living or growing at or near the surface of the ocean, far from land, as certain organisms.

WTF????

that's what they say...

incondite \in-KON-dit\, adjective:

1. Ill-constructed; unpolished: incondite prose.
2. Crude; rough; unmannerly.

Education is one of those things where every ignoramus and his brother is an expert.

scup·per
verb (used with object) British|1.Military . to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.
2.Informal . to prevent from happening or succeeding; ruin; wreck.
1.Nautical . a drain at the edge of a deck exposed to the weather, for allowing accumulated water to drain away into the sea or into the bilges. Compare freeing port.
2.a drain, closed by one or two flaps, for allowing water from the sprinkler system of a factory or the like to run off a floor of the building to the exterior.
3. any opening in the side of a building, as in a parapet, for draining off rain water