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]

Just for you. The title alone was enough to pique my interest.

[xsmommy]

you are so mean.

[secret garden]

So it's not Orlando Salinas from Fox News channel.

[VRWCmember]

Outside a small Macedonian village close to the border between Greece and strife-torn Yugoslavia, a lone Catholic nun keeps a quiet watch over a silent convent. She is the last caretaker of the site of significant historical developments spanning more than 2,000 years. When Sister Maria Cyrilla of the Order of the Perpetual Watch dies, the convent of St. Elias will be closed by the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Macedonia. However, that isn't likely to happen soon as Sister Maria, 53, enjoys excellent health. By her own estimate, she walks 10 miles daily about the grounds of the convent, which once served as a base for the army of Attila the Hun. In more ancient times, a Greek temple to Eros, the god of love, occupied the hilltop site. Historians say that Attila took over the old temple in 439 A.D. and used it as a base for his marauding army. The Huns are believed to have first collected and then destroyed a large gathering of Greek legal writs at the site. It is believed that Attila wanted to study the sagacious Greek legal system, and had the writs and other documents brought to the temple. Scholars differ on why he had the valuable documents destroyed - either because he was barely literate and couldn't read them, or because they provided evidence of democratic government that did not square with his own notion of rule by an all-powerful tyrant. When the Greek church took over the site in the 15th Century and the convent was built, church leaders ordered the pagan statue of Eros destroyed, so another ancient Greek treasure was lost. Today, there is only the lone sister, watching over the old Hun base. And that's how it ends: No Huns, no writs, no Eros, and nun left on base.

[hobbes1]

It seems that Bernards girlfriend made a sagacious observation about Maureen Dowd, after getting a response from an Email...

My girlfriend stared at the script and said, “She’s a psycho. Anybody I’ve ever met who uses lowercase ‘i’s has always been completely insane.” I nodded my head.

That begs two more questions....

and i have never been able to work up the same enthusiasm for Orlando after CJ posted the fruity dressup pix....

IS xsmommy really Maureen Dowd? Or just completely insane?

[xsmommy]

i think i read that Laffin in the Dark had closed. i am so glad you had a good time there! we want to try to get up there sometime before summer is over. feels that the summer is going very quickly though. it is just flying by.

[xsmommy]

no, i like him, though. even with his little fancy schmancy beard!

[xsmommy]

you are the master of the bad pun, vast!

[TheGrimReaper]

Or BOTH?

[Gabz]

feels that the summer is going very quickly though.

Really???????????

I don't feel that way at all.

[VRWCmember]

I try to master something at least once a day.

[xsmommy]

i ain't mo dowd, so i guess i am just plain insane. : )

[secret garden]

I like him but don't care for the Eddie-Munster-all-grown-up look.

[xsmommy]

yes i do, i am not sure why, but i feel the summer is fleeting.

[CholeraJoe]

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

[xsmommy]

i prefer baiting....

[secret garden]

It's because we've passed the halfway point of Fourth of July.

[hobbes1]

Yes... Pirates smuggling Sausages....

[TheGrimReaper]

"If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane."
- Mr. James Buffet.

[NeoCaveman]

"It is wrong to be French" --- Al Bundy.