proud of his success in vanquishing all

Only love vanquishes all, Of Troy.

I'm trying to love you.* In any case, I love your talent.

BTW I love "Skookum Chuck" [too].

See "Wooden Boat Festival Schedule 2005

The following is the current schedule for events for the Sunshine Coast Wooden Boat Festival June 30th through July 3rd 2005.

Arrival - June 30th
June 30th is the arrivals day, wooden boats will be arriving throughout the day with the main group proceeding through the Skookum Chuck Rapids in procession at 1100h."

http://www.ccga12.org/scows/schedule.php

And more:

"Skookum Chuck was used as a pseudonym for the author of Skookum Chuck Fables (Robert Dalziel Cumming, 1915), a collection of historical offerings that first appeared in the Ashcroft Journal."

http://www.abcbookworld.com/?state=view_author&author_id=6322

And there is a novel "Skookum Chuck" by Stewart Edward White, a prolific, but apparently not widely known[?] author of western adventures [52 titles]:

http://xmlwriter.net/books/search/3-Stewart%20Edward%20White.html

seny

BTW there is a word in the Catalan language which is very close to Father's Steve definition of "skookum". The word is "seny" and I came across it in an old issue of National Geographic ["Catalonia, Spain's Country within a Country", January 1984].

Senora Lourdes, the owner of a tiny paper shop in Plaza Molina, "the heart of Barcelona", the writer enthuses, explains "seny";

"Seny is a Catalan word. It describes a trait usual in Catalans. When persons have seny, they are proper; they know what they want, have good sense; some people think they are driven."

See how this compares with the definition of "skookum" which Father Steve gave us:

skookum: "wise or smart or clever or understanding"

* This reminds me of a little poem:
"If you have a thousand friends, you've not a friend to spare
And if you have one enemy, you'll meet him everywhere."

We seem to be bumping into one another everywhere we go, Of Troy. :) This can't be pleasant for other Board members and visitors. Let's be friends, OK. If we can't be friends, let's just "live and let live". That's what I'm going to do, Of Troy.

Monday, January 10th begins a new "Weekly Theme" with the word "grip".

Skookum some more with this Weekly Theme, or enjoy a change of scenery with the new Weekly Theme "people essential to the movie-making business". :)