Raymone's Word du Jour and Commentary by the Crumby Ovate

Ovate n.

1723, from assumed L. pl. Ovates, from Gk. Ovateis “soothsayers, prophets,” mentioned by Strabo as third order in the Gaulish hierarchy, from P.Celt. *vateis, cognate with L. vatis, O.Ir. faith, Welsh ofydd. The modern word and the artificial senses attached to it, are from the 18c. Celtic revival and word appears first in Henry Rowlands.


Ovate adj.

Egg shaped

Or in the botanical sense,

an ellipse that is broader on one end than on the other end
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Crumby Ovate

Commentary
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Have you noticed that fore-telling is easy on a grand scale, but becomes more difficult as the scale shrivels? I, the Crumby Ovate have noticed this phenomena in my part-time capacity as RGVECB junior soothsayer (Red being the senior soothsayer). For example, I can easily predict where the sun will come up over the CB tomorrow (grand scale), but utterly fail to predict the cow attack on the Digup nursery (shriveled scale). Actually, truth to tell, I wasn’t even aware of the cow attack until the cow attack was in progress.

The example above is not quite a fair one since, as you all know, “predicting” where the sun will rise over the Cow Barn is subject to mathematical exactitude and is well known following from established solar patterns. So let’s consider a fair, large scale sooth-saying. A good while back I sooth-said that these Yorenited States would invade Iraq, no matter what. I did this in public with 5 people in the hearing of it in December 2001 and on sundry occasions, following that date. I also predicted, on the same occasions, that Iraq had no nuclear, biological or chemical weapons capability. But I totally missed the cow attack. To reiterate, it’s a question of scale, large vs. stumpy.