Inhere \in-HIR\, intransitive verb:
To be inherent; to belong, as attributes or qualities.

The authority that belongs to someone as former secretary of state does not inhere in the person, but in the relation between the person and his former office.
— “The grim face of partisanship”, Washington Times, July 10, 2001

To other critics, the problems of democracy inhere in the incapacity of democratic institutions.
— John Mark Hansen, “Individuals, institutions, and public preferences over public finance”, American Political Science Review, September 1998

For New Labour has decided that upon these anonymous, nondescript, utterly unqualified public functionaries is to be thrust the full weight of moral and social authority that once inhered in the anointed clergy.
— Janet Daley, “Will you kindly admit me into your bedroom”, Daily Telegraph, October 20, 1998

Inhere is from Latin inhaerere, from in-, “in” + haerere, “to stick, to hang.”

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This was simple, but interesting.

iLink

Geeks with too much time on their hands create wonderful things like this:

Use the Force, Link!

This is an interesting and uncomfortable office movie. I think the boss character is supposed to be Martin Short having a nervous breakdown.

Sellers sell and Linkers link

Riparian \rih-PAIR-ee-uhn; ry-PAIR-ee-uhn\, adjective:
Of or pertaining to the bank of a river or stream.

Riparian areas are the green, vegetated areas on each side of streams and rivers. They serve many important functions, including purifying water by removing sediments and other contaminants; reducing the risk of flooding and associated damage; reducing stream channel and streambank erosion; increasing available water and stream flow duration by holding water in stream banks and aquifers; supporting a diversity of plant and wildlife species; maintaining a habitat for healthy fish populations; providing water, forage, and shade for wildlife and livestock; and creating opportunities for recreationists to fish, camp, picnic, and enjoy other activities.
— Jeremy M. Brodie, “Ribbons of Green”, Bureau of Land Management Environmental Education Home Page

Along its serpentine course, the Charles River widens and narrows, and its riparian sounds swell to crescendos in places or relax to the low purr of a river at peace.
— Craig Lambert, Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing

[The vireo’s] comeback may prove that habitat along streams in Southern California is recovering from the effects of pollution caused by decades of urban development. That is a critical indicator of environmental health in a state that has lost 97% of its riparian woodlands, more than any other state.
— Gary Polakovic, “Songbird’s Numbers Crescendo”, Los Angeles Times, August 22, 1999

[What about your social circle?] “A steady stream of brilliant American intellectuals visiting me in the riparian solitude of a beautifully reflected sunset.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, “Nabokov on Nabokov and Things”, New York Times, May 12, 1968

Riparian is from the Latin, ripari-us + -an, from Latin ripa, the bank of a river.

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There is actually a match for this word, but only one. A gentleman takes us on a mountain bike ride down and around a trail through the Monte Bello Preserve in Santa Clara Valley in California. It’s not much, but it’s there.

Look out for that … link!

Fanfaronade \fan-fair-uh-NAYD; -NOD\, noun:
1. Swaggering; empty boasting; blustering manner or behavior; ostentatious display.
2. Fanfare.

George Manahan made his debut this week as music director of New York City Opera, and it is difficult to imagine someone laying claim to a major podium with less of a fanfaronade.
— Justin Davidson, “A Director’s Toil Pays Some Dividends”, Newsday, September 21, 1996

But like a demure singer in a long gown who is surrounded by chorus girls in sequined miniskirts, the statue may seem slightly lost amid the fanfaronade.
— Richard Stengel, “Rockets will glare and bands blare to celebrate the statue”, Time, July 7, 1986

Fanfaronade derives from Spanish fanfarronada, from fanfarrón, “braggart,” from Arabic farfar, “garrulous.”

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This word was designed to piss a youtube searcher off. Any guesses as to how many matches Fanfaronade gets you? Right. Zero.
First Word, First Sense: Swaggering. Just so you know, it’s a little scary inside this search. Be warned.

Ah, this one’s perfect … or I should say pAARRRRRfect

What kind of link does a pirate click? A PEG Link.

First Word, Second Sense: Fanfare

I remember this from my childhood, but I don’t recall which shows or movies:

Duh-duh-DUUUUH!!!!!

EDIT: I found this after I hit publish and I’m too big of a dork not to include it:

I win the role(link)playing game!!!

Erudite \AIR-yuh-dyt; -uh-dyt\, adjective:
Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; learned.

In front of imposing edifices like the Topkapi Palace or Hagia Sophia are guides displaying Government-issued licenses. Many of these guides are erudite historians who have quit low-paying jobs as university professors and now offer private tours.
— “What’s Doing in Istanbul”, New York Times, February 23, 1997

The works of Baudrillard, Deleuze, Guattari and Virilio are filled with seemingly erudite references to relativity, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, etc.
— Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense

Erudite comes from Latin eruditus, from e-, “out of, from” + rudis, “rough, untaught,” which is also the source of English rude. Hence one who is erudite has been brought out of a rough, untaught, rude state.

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Is this child abuse or simply funny?

Link it like it’s hot!

Tetchy \TECH-ee\, adjective:
Peevish; testy; irritable.

Waugh’s tetchy and combative personality made him a difficult companion at arms.
— Penelope Lively, “A Maverick Historian”, The Atlantic, February 2001

Wright was in Tokyo, busy with the Imperial Hotel, firing off telegrams blaming his son, Lloyd, and Schindler for nagging cost overruns that Barnsdall, always tetchy about parting with money, was balking at.
— Greg Goldin, “Light Houses”, Los Angeles Magazine, February 2001

His every word was pure gold then, and even the chairman, who is not known to hide his light under a bushel, got a little tetchy being asked to opine on every economic subject known to man.
— Jamie Dettmer, “Greenspan Doesn’t Always Get It Right”, Insight on the News, February 26, 2001

As prams trundle and toddlers bawl, bargain-hunters try to shove, grab and kick their way to consumerist nirvana, while their spouses, weighed down by bulging bags, get seriously tetchy.
— Kim Gilmour, “Hello, good buy”, Internet Magazine, November 2001

Tetchy probably comes from Middle English tecche, “a bad habit,” from Old French tache, teche, “a spot, stain, blemish, habit, vice.”

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for tetchy

I wish I spoke Tagalog; the only hits for tetchy are for the finale of a Filipino “teleserye” (TV Series) called “Basta’t Kasama Kita.” It transcends language though. Also, YouTube has upgraded their player. I picked one with a decent visual story that wasn’t too long, but I can only link to it because embedding was “disabled by request.” Enjoy.

dutong!

First, I know I have had to make a lot of double posts lately because I’ve skipped a day. So far, I’ve only missed single days. Unfortunately, on very short notice, my family must move by the end of the month, my father (MisterBixby Sr.) is in the hospital for tests, I’ve been trying to keep up with my obligations at the Super Fan Blog and I have been slammed at work (plus I’m a little under the weather). All told, not a good last coupla weeks.

Pejorative \pih-JOR-uh-tiv\, adjective:
1. Tending to make or become worse.
2. Tending to disparage or belittle.

noun:
1. A belittling or disparaging word or expression.

Citing the construction industry, car dealers, and politicians as the purveyors of “sprawl” (a pejorative term that does not even allow for the possibility of benefits associated with low-density development), Kunstler fails to consider the role of market forces.
— Julia Hansen, “letter to the editor”, The Atlantic, December 1996

While he said that he is not a “fanboy,” mildly pejorative slang for an aggressively obsessive “Star Wars” fan, he did mention that the John Williams “Star Wars” theme was played at his wedding reception two years ago.
— Michel Marriott, “On a Galaxy of Sites, ‘Star Wars’ Fever Rises”, New York Times, May 6, 1999

Welfare state is now, even for the Labour party whose grand historic achievement it was, obscurely shameful. A pejorative for our times.
— John Sutherland, “How the potent language of civic life was undermined”, The Guardian, March 20, 2001

Pejorative is derived from the past participle of Late Latin pejorare, “to make worse, to become worse,” from Latin pejor, “worse.”

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On top of all that, only two hits on today’s word. One is a depressing, arty and weird student-film-looking rant on Third World Debt. I couldn’t watch more than 15 seconds of it. That just isn’t how we roll here at Tube of the Day.

People doing dumb things, on the other hand – that is more our style.

Here, catch!

That’s it for today.

Suasion \SWAY-zhun\, noun:The act of persuading; persuasion.
As in the 1960s, violence converged with dynamism in American life, but unlike that subsequent period of protest, the militancy of the 1930s was restrained by the long arm of an American political tradition that favored reform by moral suasion.– Nona Balakian, The World of William Saroyan
He visualized a world wherein power is exercised peacefully by moral suasion and political acumen, a world of idealism in many ways.– George Perkovich, India’s Nuclear Bomb
Some of the earliest protests of the incipient civil rights movement demanded the removal of baseball’s color line. Beyond this cultural suasion, legal efforts to mandate integration were under way almost two years before Jackie Robinson donned a Brooklyn Dodger uniform.– Dean Chadwin, Those Damn Yankees
Even more reassuring–more wishful and escapist, from our secularist-modern perspective–is the idea that the universe is moral and hence responsive to moral suasion.– Yi-Fu Tuan, Escapism
Suasion comes from Latin suasio, from suadere, “to present in a pleasing manner,” hence, “to advise.” It is related to suave, “gracious or agreeable in manner.”
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Only three hits today, from someone whose username is Suasion.

He is apparently bored a great deal this day. He uses some fun mirror/camera effects for his guitar video.

Clink link in case of boredom as F**K.

Vade Mecum \vay-dee-MEE-kuhm; vah-dee-MAY-\, noun:
1. A book for ready reference; a manual; a handbook.
2. A useful thing that one regularly carries about.

The reader who wants honestly to understand it, and not merely read into it his own ideas, needs some kind of vade mecum to provide the necessary background and explain unfamiliar words and allusions and strange turns of thought.
— Robert C. Dentan, “Including Uz and Buz”, New York Times, November 17, 1968

Roget’s Thesaurus, which had come into being as a linguistic example of the Platonic ideal, became instead a vade mecum for the crossword cheat.
— Simon Winchester, “Word Imperfect”, The Atlantic, May 2001

Vade mecum is from Latin, literally meaning “go with me.”

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So, no hits on Youtube. How about Google Video? Nada.

Crap.

OK. Nothing on youtube for “A book for ready reference.” I searched for Reference Book instead – it seemed a fair substitute. I have to admit this project is causing more judgement calls than I expected. Got some hits there.

Oh. Thank non-existent God for this!

Dewey Decimal says the link can be found in section 107.987654400

Oh my. Oh my, yes! Thank you! Enjoy!

One link to rule them all,
One link to find them.
One link to bring them all,
and in the darkness bind them.

My work here is done.

Wait a minute! What did that say? Small Beer? That’s really the WORD of the Day? OK. Must be Friday or something. I fear you tube at this point. This may not be safe for work.

Small Beer \small beer\, noun:
1. Weak beer.
2. Insignificant matters; something of little importance.

adjective:
1. Unimportant; trivial.

We dined early upon stale bread and old mutton with small beer.
— Ferdinand Mount, Jem (and Sam)

I was not born for this kind of small beer, says Joan the wife of the colonial governor, who imagines leading armies or “droves of inflamed poets.”
— Nancy Willard, “The Nameless Women of the World”, New York Times, December 18, 1988

Call me a geek, but for biologists, marvels like the parasitic flatworm are on tap every day, making the reveries of Hollywood seem like small beer.
— Jerry A. Coyne, “The Truth Is Way Out There”, New York Times, October 10, 1999

Small beer is beer of only slight alcoholic strength; the other senses are derivative.

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Alright. I’m clicking “search” … and … ok, mostly a few beer ads and drunk people being stupid so far.

Here’s a nice parody pair. The Aussies make some great beer ads.

Original:
It’s a BIG LINK

Parody:

It’a small link

What else… hmm? Ooooh I want one of these!!!

Link it right down the middle.

These guys claim to have been half in the bag when they filmed it, but it’s still really good. I’ve done some stage fighting training and this is very good, excellent if you add in the fact that they are amateurs.

No one can be told what the link is

I posted a lot for today’s because I didn’t finish this yesterday and I saw how bad “tomorrow’s” word is.

I alluded to this late last week, but now I can announce it. I have been chosen as a Bear’s SuperFan Blogger at the Bears SuperFan Blog!

I am on the hook for at least one post a week – not a problem, I think – and I am one of 11 bloggers to be chosen.

Please disregard the dorkiness of my first post (I’m the one in the tie), since they wanted us to post our application submission as our first post and I wasn’t writing a blog post at the time. I should have the second post up by the time anyone reads this.