Word of the Day for Thursday, December 8, 2011
copse \kops\, noun:
A thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
After the B.O.'s thorough thumping that he received on the other side, the dark side, he decided to take a few days off and go out to Camp David. While he was taking a stroll through a maple copse, contemplating his strategy for getting SEIU to foil his next Presidential candidate target, the alternate B.O., having found out about how to cross over to the other side, suddenly appeared before the stinky B.O. and told him that he was headed down the wrong path. Upon realizing that the alternate B.O. was bent on changing him, the stinky B.O. cried out, "Alternate B.O., why do you persecute me like this? I've done nothing wrong! All I want is to lead our country down the road to mediocrity. All our subjects, I mean citizens, should aspire to rise to the middle class. You know that it is best for them to be happy with mediocrity; they shouldn't try to go beyond that as they may become disappointed and unhappy. We, their leaders, can provide them with all they need, like free homes, free health care, free gasoline, free cars, free education, and free food. If we do that, we will be in power forever! Besides, they're too stupid to make their own decisions in life, we need to do that for them. So leave this universe and go back to yours. You don't deserve to be in the same universe as me." So the alternate B.O. responded, "Oh, stinky B.O., it saddens me to know that you are my evil counterpart. Unlike you, I have faith in the American public, I know that they can and will rise to the occasion. We have seen that in my universe. I will leave you now, but mark my words, your path is a path to perdition, not prosperity!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
The sun was setting behind a thick forest, and in the glow of sunset the birch trees, dotted about in the aspen copse, stood out clearly with their hanging twigs, and their buds swollen almost to bursting.-- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Despite the December afternoon sunlight, the interior of the copse looked dark and impenetrable. The fact that none of the trees were covered in snow appeared to him to be improbable but welcome.-- John Berger, Once in Europa
Copse is derived from the Old French word copeiz meaning “a cut-over forest” which originates in the Latin word colpaticum meaning “having been cut.”
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