nig•gard•ly |ˈnigərdlē|
adjectivenot generous; stingy : serving out the rations with a niggardly hand.
• meager; scanty : their share is a niggardly 2.7 percent.adverb archaic
in a stingy or meager manner.
The word is of Norwegian origins and has no etymological relationship with the word you are thinking of.
Stop emailing me that Buzz is a racist and get yourself a freakin’ dictionary. I have not one ounce of care that you feel aggrieved or insulted by someone’s use of a legitimate word you don’t know.
[Erick now returns to the streets of New Orleans for his vacation]
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Andisheh Nouraee,
If I substitute the potato chips for a pickle is it still Middle Eastern? What if I wear my napkin on my head while eating it?
I need clarification here.
By the way, back to the original topic of the post.
The word “F*CK” has no etymological relationship with the sexual act many of you are thinking of. However, if I were to say that “A Georgia Tech student was “F*cking some chick”, you would know what I meant and you would know that I was lying.
Just because a certain word has no “etymological relationship” with another word, it doesn’t mean that certain connotations exist with said word.
The reason you don’t hear the word “Niggardly” that often is because of the connotation of the “N-Word”. Whether you like it or not, that connotation exists, and no amount of pulling out the dictionary to prove a word’s vague Norwegian origins changes the connotation.
GASP!…Jace is accusing ALL Georgia Tech students of lying about everything! If ONE Tech student lies, they ALL must lie!
Jace is obviously a…..a….Techist!
Bill,
I was only accusing them of lying about their “escapades”. We all know that Techies don’t have such things.
And yes, I am a Techist.
Probably because we Techies are too focused on readying our weight scales to accommodate Joe Carter’s new BMI legislation.
Jace asks:”If I substitute the potato chips for a pickle is it still Middle Eastern? What if I wear my napkin on my head while eating it?”
I think you need to ask Bill. He’s Peach Pundit’s Official Middle Eastern Authenticity Coordinator.
Just give me some fava beans with a nice Chianti…sans someone’s liver.
Whoa Bill,
Don’t tell them to “hold the liver”. If you’re not going to eat it, I will.
Bill if you have lamb with the fava beans I would recommend a Bordeaux or Cabernet Sauvignon. You need a big earthy wine!
Jace,
Let’s do lunch sometime. I’ll buy you the liver.
John,
Lamb? Isn’t that a……certain-geographical-part-of-the-world-animal-eaten-regularly?
Yes, lamb is eaten every day in New Zealand and Australia by those of that certain Irish decent.
Bill
A little help again.
Religion and Vegetarianism
Why Hindus Don’t Eat Meat
Reasons
In the past fifty years, millions of meat-eaters — Hindus and non-Hindus — have made the personal decision to stop eating the flesh of other creatures. There are five major motivations for such a decision:
1. The Dharmic Law Reason
Ahinsa, the law of noninjury, is the Hindu’s first duty in fulfilling religious obligations to God and God’s creation as defined by Vedic scripture.
2. The Karmic Consequences Reason
All of our actions, including our choice of food, have Karmic consequences. By involving oneself in the cycle of inflicting injury, pain and death, even indirectly by eating other creatures, one must in the future experience in equal measure the suffering caused.
3. The Spiritual Reason
Food is the source of the body’s chemistry, and what we ingest affects our consciousnes, emotions and experiential patterns. If one wants to live in higher consciousness, in peace and happiness and love for all creatures, then he cannot eat meat, fish, shellfish, fowl or eggs. By ingesting the grosser chemistries of animal foods, one introduces into the body and mind anger, jealousy, anxiety, suspicion and a terrible fear of death, all of which are locked into the the flesh of the butchered creatures. For these reasons, vegetarians live in higher consciousness and meat-eaters abide in lower consciousness.
4. The Health Reason
Medical studies prove that a vegetarian diet is easier to digest, provides a wider ranger of nutrients and imposes fewer burdens and impurities on the body. Vegetarians are less susceptible to all the major diseases that afflict contemporary humanity, and thus live longer, healthier, more productive lives. They have fewer physical complaints, less frequent visits to the doctor, fewer dental problems and smaller medical bills. Their immune system is stronger, their bodies are purer, more refined and skin more beautiful.
5. The Ecological Reason
Planet Earth is suffereing. In large measure, the escalating loss of species, destruction of ancient rainforests to create pasture lands for live stock, loss of topsoils and the consequent increase of water impurities and air pollution have all been traced to the single fact of meat in the human diet. No decision that we can make as individuals or as a race can have such a dramatic effect on the improvement of our planetary ecology as the decision not to eat meat.
John,
Though it was clearly the answer to a question I did not ask, thank you for your answer.
“lamb is eaten every day in New Zealand and Australia by those of that certain Irish decent.”
Well not every day. Any day of the week you can’t beat lamb cops for 20 cents each at the supermarket.
Whew, must be a v. slow newsday…
After all this discussion, I know this sounds weird, but I love my lamb with Foster’s special bitter and mint jelly. But I have to have the chops well done and the jelly sweet. The bitter is such a contrast to the pallet and the jelly must be Polaner’s.
But it’s still a dispute as to whether I accompany the lamb a sweet potato or an Irish potatoe.
I wonder what potatoe/potato a certain VP candidate would prefer.
If you think my response is somewhat silly, please re-read some of the tinged comments above.
Are we going to carry these tinged comments all the way to November? I hope not.
bowersville
LOL
Bowersville,
I thought highly refined Southerners thought it an insult to refer to the cooking of fruit into a semi-solid, semi-liquid concoction as jelly.
I would have thought you would be edjumacated enough to use the proper terminology of preserves.
Yeah, you’re right but I ain’t highly refined. I double checked before I used the term jelly instead of jam or preserves. Mint jelly was on the jar of the Polaner name brand, so I went with jelly.
In all seriousness, the left is looking for anything they can claim as RACIST/SEXIST. Their claims don’t make it so, but just wait. It’s coming. It’s already in the Democratic race(can I use the word race?) for the Democratic nominee for President and it’s coming here.
B’ville,
We have idiots on the Right who have already been programmed to be Stepford Politically-Correct Ninny-Bobs to see racism where there isn’t. Some of them are RIGHT here on this blog.
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