Lorenzo has asked for a "strange" word post - one that all may not know the exact meaning of and must therefore guess, WITHOUT I might add, looking the word up first.
So, not quite what you may have expected my dear potter, but here are your first two words:
they are 1) potter (one who makes pots simply will not do!!!) and 2) grace (no "unmerited favor" either)
now, I would like to see some creativity out there - if Lorenzo has to really think about her meanings, so do the rest of you - no canned answers! I want to know what you really think!
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Right. Here goes.
Potter. This is a corruption of the medieval French word Pottere, which is a verb meaning to take or procure that which is not rightfully yours. Hence 'potteur' is one who takes.
Grace. This is an American bird of the egret family. It is sometimes known as a Greaser due to it's annoying habit of leaving a sticky substance emanating from it's beak, smeared around the roots of trees. It is only the male that does this. It is incredibly alluring to the female and is only done in the Spring.
Have just managed to mow my wet soggy squidgy lawn!
potter: uh, umm, ah, ugh... well, yeah, uh...okay here goes: I really don't know but just a wild guess: something to do with plants. I know that's hardly acceptable. I am just very uncreative sometimes.
Grace: elegance, beauty, fitting, (honorable).
Not bad Ted - I'm kinda liking yours as Lorenzo's sound a bit depressing. Although she has been dealing with a "squidgy"? lawn!
Now, Iwonder if anyone else will play?
Potter: The same as our word for patter as in the patter of rain but this is how the Wangoolie tribe say it in Woolagaloo due to the fact that they cannot pronounce the letter A because of the 12" bolt they have through their noses
Grace: I grace my kneese when I fall over dwunk!
Potter a.k.a. pater. Latin for father, as in Potter Noster (The Lord's Prayer).
Grace. The redemptive act of inclusion as it is applied to ethnicity. See Gracism.
(I already knew of that book. In fact, I have given away two copies to key people at my church as we seek to be intentional about being a multi-ethnic community.)
Potter...
the Latin father who puts the toddler on the potty?
Grace...
the father who smiles, even as he discovers he potted the toddler just a moment beyond optimal potting conditions.
That was sooo funny, LL! I nearly exceeded optimal potting conditions as I read it!
Potter--the role a three year old adopts when it is time to put up his porch toys, all of which are stowed in an old clay pot that used to house a ficus tree before the stupid deer ate it.
Grace--the feeling in my heart for the three out of four fawns born in my backyard behind a fence too short for the fawns to jump over when I let the dogs out to got potty.
Disgrace--the feeling I had when I and my neighbors found my dogs astride their new playmate who unfortunately wasn't quite up to the roughness of their play.
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