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.]

[secret garden]

Did I miss Part I? I thought you might go Cheech and Chong on us with your essay - remember that? First day of my summer vacation, I woke up...

[Robert A Cook PE]

Weeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllll, ya see, it goes like this.

Xsex accused me of shirking (shirting?) on my "What I Did During My Summer Vacation" paragraph that Teach assigned and gabz complained that I'm not a travel writer (must be a travel wronger, I guess), but since I read books from the middle to the end, then start again at the front read through to the end; I figgured I'd have to right the paragraph the same way I'd read the paragraph so I wouldn't get the two confused when I read it so I'd have to start the paragraph in the proper place in the middle and write the wrong the end after the next end was done.

After I finish the middle of course.

But since I'm not at the end yet because I've got a trip to Texas (Medina Lake, Schertz, San Antonio, and New Braunfels (?)) scheduled next weekend after a trip to Huntsville on business on Wednesday and Thursday, so I can't start the middle of the paragraph yet since the middle of the vacation trip hasn't started nor ended itself yet; so I'm in the middle of the end of the second part of the first half but not the second half of the end part yet but I haven't started the third part of the second half yet so I can't write about the first part of the first half my vacation yet which is done already because that woudl be wrong.

And confusing.

See?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Weeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllll, ya see, it goes like this.

Xsex accused me of shirking (shirting?) on my "What I Did During My Summer Vacation" paragraph that Teach assigned and gabz complained that I'm not a travel writer (must be a travel wronger, I guess), but since I read books from the middle to the end, then start again at the front read through to the end; I figgured I'd have to right the paragraph the same way I'd read the paragraph so I wouldn't get the two confused when I read it so I'd have to start the paragraph in the proper place in the middle and write the wrong the end after the next end was done.

After I finish the middle of course.

But since I'm not at the end yet because I've got a trip to Texas (Medina Lake, Schertz, San Antonio, and New Braunfels (?)) scheduled next weekend after a trip to Huntsville on business on Wednesday and Thursday, so I can't start the middle of the paragraph yet since the middle of the vacation trip hasn't started nor ended itself yet; so I'm in the middle of the end of the second part of the first half but not the second half of the end part yet but I haven't started the third part of the second half yet so I can't write about the first part of the first half my vacation yet which is done already because that woudl be wrong.

And confusing.

See?

[honeygrl]

"So why would someone named honeygrl care about Tanya vs Tonya. "

I'm just odd I guess :)

[Conspiracy Guy]

The way Laura Earl drives she needs all the safety gear available. I have never seen a stock Ford Taurus do 200 milenour (NASCAR Speak fo Miles Per Hour) til I saw her drive hers.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Yer jest plain weird.

[Slip18]

Thank you for sharing your lovely vacation, Cook. I thought I was the only person to read the ENDING of the book first. You read the ending of a series of books first. And I thought I was bad.

What I did for the last three weeks:

It's been over 110 degrees here for the past three weeks. Yesterday was 116. You must get everything done in the mornings, otherwise you get heat stroke or dehydration. They are both deadly. Because everything has to be done in the mornings, I managed to injure my arms and hands, yet again. Cyber kept the right arm iced. Felt like a darned baseball pitcher. Hand just swelled up.

I swear next year I'm planning for this heat.

Good news is the monsoon season will be here in a couple of days. That reduces the heat below 110, but then you have the extreme humidity. The monsoon season is over in a few weeks, then the temperatures reduce drastically.

I wonder how Miss Rika is doing with the hurricane.

[xsmommy]

Update on the sweet lil JRT that was dragged behind the car a few weeks back. poor lil sweet thing!

[xsmommy]

look at how adorable he is, and he has the same facial expression that xspup had.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I refuse to register wid da Post. But I'm sure it's a good story.

[xsmommy]

SLIPPY S. SLIP will you PLEASE take care of yourself and stop having injuries!!!!

[xsmommy]

well i brought his pic over, the story just said that the guy that found him after the poor thing was dragged and had the pads of his paws bloody and worn off, ended up being able to adopt him, and that he has recovered nicely and is fine.

[hobbes1]

And he has the same facial expression that xspup had.

Yeah...."How long are you on Leave sailor...?"

[xsmommy]

xspup has a broken coat like the lil guy pictured and was mostly white except for black ears, so he looked very similar.

[Slip18]

You changed your name, Laura?

[xsmommy]

will you EVER stop being mean to my poor xpup?

[hobbes1]

I'm not the one that cut off his B@!!$.....

[xsmommy]

you continue to malign him when you know that my heart was wounded by having to give him up.

[secret garden]

Are you sure he's not baring his teeth and getting ready to lunge at the camera? ;)

[hobbes1]

Only because you refused to listen to me.... : (