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To: johnny7
Audacity is the best foil of ignorance.

Definition --- foil (noun) ---- a repulse; a setback.

You are not clear (to me), johnny7.

Audacity GOES RIGHT ALONG with ignorance! It is NOT a foil.

253 posted on 07/02/2006 7:51:22 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
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To: beyond the sea
Washington Post mocks the Reader in Chief .

There could be a reason for the first title.

266 posted on 07/02/2006 8:01:42 AM PDT by anita
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To: beyond the sea
I meant it as in fencing... the weapon. Oftentimes audacity... bravado... is wielded in order to cover ones ignorance.

I do it all the time. ;)

277 posted on 07/02/2006 8:20:13 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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