Word For The Day, Monday, July 14, 2003

The Verbivores | 7/14/03 | The Teacher

[RikaStrom]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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sagacity \Sa*gac"i*ty\, noun
sagacious; adjective
sagaciously; adverb
sagaciousness; noun

1. The quality of being discerning, sound in judgment, and farsighted; wisdom.
2. The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
3. Ability to make good judgments.
4. The mental ability to form an opinion by distinguishing and evaluating.

Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. --Cowper.
Natural sagacity improved by generous education. --V. Knox.

Etymology: [French sagacité, from Old French sagacite, from Latin sag cit s, quickness of perception, from sag x, sag c-, of keen perception.]

[xsmommy]

OMG.ROFLMAO.....

[xsmommy]

you got my BP all up now,grimmy!

[xsmommy]

OMG have you ever seen a bigger group of people who need to get a dang life??

[NYC GOP Chick]

Sounds like it might be sagacious to use some Jimmie Hatz

(CNN) -- When someone says "hip-hop," music is not the only thing that comes to mind. There are fashion lines and magazines representing a large and growing market.

Add to those a line of hip-hop condoms dubbed "Jimmie Hatz" -- due to hit select drug stores in early 2004.

Held in graffiti-style packages, the condoms come in three selections: XL Great Dane (extra large condom), Mixed Breed (contoured condom with dotted and ribbed texture) and the Rottweiler (standard size condom).

But this is no marketing ploy designed to line the pockets of executives, says Harry Terrell, CEO of Common Ground USA, the condom's manufacturer. "It's a full blown effort on our part to save our community."

Terrell says he was inspired to start the grass-roots campaign when he was coaching high school baseball and one of his students got infected with HIV.

"I wanted to be supportive of him as possible. I wanted to learn as much as I could about HIV and AIDS."

Out of that came the birth of his company. "I took all my money out of my 401k plan. Family members and friends have invested in the company," Terrell says.

His organization has worked on a grassroots AIDS outreach and awareness campaign since 1999, according to a recent press release. The company's aim has been to spread the word in high schools and colleges about abstinence and protection.

Terrell explains that until he saw the statistics, he was under the impression that HIV and AIDS was "a white man's disease." He says "I went to the Center for Disease Control Web site and I looked at the numbers. The numbers were staggering."

"The numbers represent to me [that] still in the inner city there's a lack of resources and education. It's as if nobody cares," Terrell adds.

His Jimmy Hatz Web site posts the latest information: "The CDC says the number of AIDS and HIV cases is increasing at alarming rate and shows no sign of decline. African-Americans represent the highest number followed by Hispanics. In 2000, the last year for which national facts are available, more African Americans were reported with AIDS than any other racial/ethinc group."

The product line was named in a bid to reach out to the hip-hop generation. "Jimmy hat" is a commonly used slang word for condom.

Terrell says he wanted to make wearing condoms "cool or the 'in' thing to do."

The CDC statistics, along with information about pregnancy rates among teens, STDs and a other resources, can be found on the his Web site. Terrell says a clothing line is in the works as well.

"The problem is really miseducation or lack of education," Terrell says. "I wanted to save the subculture called hip-hop."

[xsmommy]

and what self respecting man would reach for anything less than the Great Dane? ; )

[NYC GOP Chick]

Does it never end with those cheese eating surrender monkeys?

Nope. It only gets worse -- look what they've foisted upon us:

C'mon, you KNOW that guy is French!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Homework:

New York is widely regarded as the media center of the liberal's known universe; but as the inaccuracy and acute bias of the liberal press corpse shows, it is actually a saggingcity of deceit and dispair and disrepair.

[xsmommy]

how was your vaca robt? not that you'll tell me, but i thought i'd ask... ; )

[NYC GOP Chick]

Back from vacation yesterday - we didn't spend any time at the nude beach, so I have no photos of other tourists in their sag-ass-ity.

Well, you didn't miss out on much...

[hobbes1]

OPH is not French......!

[NYC GOP Chick]

Is that any way to talk on &$^%#!!x( Bastille Day??

According to the newspaper, there's going to be a Bastille Day Festival on my street this evening, right near Broadway...

[NYC GOP Chick]

Foutrez les Francaises!

[xsmommy]

i know! that is kind of a low blow, Chick. OPH is from KY, and we really tried not to make too much of the fact that he was married to his first cousin....

[Laura Earl]

mais oui!

[Gabz]

Good flippin' GRIEF....................

[Gabz]

I don't give a hoot WHAT he is - that outfit is gross (and probably very uncomfortable)

[xsmommy]

please someone shoot me, if i am acting cute at an advanced age. promise??

[Gabz]

oh PULEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE

[Argh]

Here, I'll give Miss Whyisa a thrill and stage my own death.

GAAAACKK!!

[NYC GOP Chick]

Nope. Orlando Bloom (aka Legolas the poof) now turned gay pirate.

Kind of like these fellas?