If I remember correctly the geese sacred to the Goddess Juno, on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, gave notice of a Gaulish attack on the city in around 390 B.C. and thus saved the city.
Re V.word relevance. Yes, if our imagination is active enough to twist the coincidental word into some form of relevance. In this case Dabit seems relevant, but would be more so if you had a bad cold, and having spilled the coffee used 'dabit !' as an expletive.
You can understand the geese blowing the whistle on the Gauls, with their penchant for pate de foie gras! Must have been a very anxious moment for the geese until the Romans woke up. While I'm not in the habit of employing offensive expletives perhaps the occasional 'dabit-to-blazes!' is not to be SNIFFED at. I don't think that would be in excess - or inessess as the v-word has it.
Oh, and the 'pooter sends greetings to our lovely sister too - the next v-word is hymmag. Clearly it wished to use the honorific capitalization of her name but being restricted to the use of lower case letters imaginatively doubled the 'm' in lieu. A clear case of true machine intelligence - or as you will, mere coincidence twisted by the devil's advocate.
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Didn't the Romans keep geese as burglar alarms? Not surprising since they kept a she wolf as their alma mater!
v-word is almost Italian anyway:-
belazie
beautiful thanks = bella grazie!
I just spilled coffee on my shirt and the next v-word is dabit.
It would be easy to become paranoid about 'pooter spying on one!
The frequency of v-w relevance to some current situation is extraordinarily high.
If I remember correctly the geese sacred to the Goddess Juno, on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, gave notice of a Gaulish attack on the city in around 390 B.C. and thus saved the city.
Re V.word relevance. Yes, if our imagination is active enough to twist the coincidental word into some form of relevance. In this case Dabit seems relevant, but would be more so if you had a bad cold, and having spilled the coffee used 'dabit !' as an expletive.
You can understand the geese blowing the whistle on the Gauls, with their penchant for pate de foie gras!
Must have been a very anxious moment for the geese until the Romans woke up.
While I'm not in the habit of employing offensive expletives perhaps the occasional 'dabit-to-blazes!' is not to be SNIFFED at. I don't think that would be in excess - or inessess as the v-word has it.
Oh, and the 'pooter sends greetings to our lovely sister too - the next v-word is hymmag. Clearly it wished to use the honorific capitalization of her name but being restricted to the use of lower case letters imaginatively doubled the 'm' in lieu. A clear case of true machine intelligence - or as you will, mere coincidence twisted by the devil's advocate.
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