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In 2008, about 58% of college graduates and individuals with some college education or an associate degree reported being very satisfied with their jobs, while 50% of high school gradu - ates and 40% of individuals without a high school diploma reported being very satisfied.
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As someone who once belonged to the ranks of those geeky law grads who descend on Washington each spring after gradu ... digg
Christina Erickson: Substance is the New Sexy in Our Nation's Capital: Echoes from Inaugural Parties 2009
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Looks like a whole class of bakers gradu..gratu...gradula...came from the same school.
Expressions of "Graditude" Jen 2009
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After completing undergraduate and gradu - ate studies in computer science and business administration, he returned to India to fulfill his vision of being a tentmaker.
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As someone who once belonged to the ranks of those geeky law grads who descend on Washington each spring after gradu ...
Christina Erickson: Substance is the New Sexy in Our Nation's Capital: Echoes from Inaugural Parties 2009
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Better yet is the subsidized Stafford, which the Feds pay interest on while your child is in school and for six months after gradu-ation.
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March 25, 2008 at 9:42 am wee played teh Rocky theme at mai grad… gradu-ay… when ai wuz dun wif hi skool. when it wuz dun an we wuz awl runnin owt an eks-eye-ted an frowin our hats in teh ayr.
constructive feedback - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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They differ intenso et remisso gradu, saith [897] Gordonius, as the humour is intended or remitted.
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Quidam prae verecundia simul et dolore in insaniam incidunt, eo quod a literatorum gradu in examine excluduntur.
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Iphigenia, now ready to be sacrificed, when he had painted Chalcas mourning, Ulysses sad, but most sorrowful Menelaus; and showed all his art in expressing a variety of affections, he covered the maid's father Agamemnon's head with a veil, and left it to every spectator to conceive what he would himself; for that true passion and sorrow in summo gradu, such as his was, could not by any art be deciphered.
oroboros commented on the word gradu
Gradu (pronounced gra-DOO) = Any unwanted substance. There are two types:
1. Specific gradu: You know what it is (e.g., the brown residue that is left at the bottom of your coffee cup after you have been gone for a few days ... It's dried coffee!)
2. Non-specific gradu: You don't know what it is (e.g., the round, wrinkled, grayish fuzz-covered object you find in your vegetable drawer after being gone all summer).
"Man, that was some gnarly gradu somebody left under the couch; it trapped all the dust bunnies! Yuck!"
December 18, 2007
bilby commented on the word gradu
Hmmm, sounds like lees.
December 18, 2007
mollusque commented on the word gradu
Thanks, Bilby! Here's another example from whatsupmag: "So I took my darling girl to see the burly man with a bushy beard and calming persona who had treated three generations of my family already. His examination of my daughter made it four. He scrawled a prescription for her, saying 'This will help clear the gradu out of your nose and chest, cher.'"
December 18, 2007
sionnach commented on the word gradu
i'm still looking for a satisfactory word for the sleep gunk that proliferates around the corners of Boris's eyes. Not to mention an explanation for the prodigious quantities of same - it's like he's a one-cat feline sleep gunk nocturnal production facility.
December 18, 2007
bilby commented on the word gradu
I have no clear idea why but I love the Lees list ... there's that sweet remembrance of coming in the door, taking off your shoes and thinking 'What is that stuff stuck to the soles?'; or of doing a clean-up around the house and finding something that was probably something else in another lifetime; or of being a kid and not being allowed to 'waste' new stuff but playing with leftovers of various kinds. I was chanting Lees - Test & Taste - Recycle long before it became a mantra.
December 18, 2007
mollusque commented on the word gradu
Trivet's Off the Gound compiles names for sleep gunk. Gound is defined in OED2 as "Foul matter, esp. that secreted in the eye" (obsolete). I'd add schmutz and eye goop to the list.
December 18, 2007
sionnach commented on the word gradu
Dottle. Which has the virtue of rhyming with wattle.
Navel lint. As distinct from, say, naval lint.
Just felt the need to get those terms out there. :)
December 18, 2007
reesetee commented on the word gradu
Note to self: Do not read gradu page after dining.
December 18, 2007
seanahan commented on the word gradu
So gradu is a superset of specific excrement?
December 19, 2007
seanahan commented on the word gradu
So gradu is a hypernym of Specific Excrement ?
December 19, 2007