Prod

No matter how much I prod her, she refuses to start working on the assignment.

Tom's so lazy that you have to prod him repeatedly to get him to do his share of the work.

It is the 4th of December of 2012. Today, Bratislav uses a long wooden stick to prod his dogs Chino and Rafa. He says that it is too cold to use the water spray bottle. He talks about the emerging Plasma Universe Paradigm. He says that space is not empty. I tell him what I read in Astronomy magazine about Jupiter-sized worlds, twice as many as stars, lonely worlds wandering unanchored to a sun, or primary star. Recently, I have been fantasizing of an elegant teahouse in orbit around such a giant world surrounded by sunless darkness. I call this quiet, eerie fantasy "La Teejo" in Esperanto, or undecidedly "la .tcat. .barj." in Lojban. Some men prefer a Bath and Sauna Dream.

Don't prod your food with your fork like that.

Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.

"It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.

The 125-pound prod (bow) drives bolt at 250 feet per second.

We've hit ten million users in prod today.

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"I don't want my daughter marrying a dirty Prod," he said.