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digdigil) has said, "Enough talking about child molesters! It is time to move onto happier topics! Give us the drabble-word, dammit!"
Okay, so maybe those weren't her exact words, but here it is, nonetheless:
quorum \KWOR-uhm\, noun:
1. Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is legally competent to transact business.
2. A select group.
"The extraordinary powers of the Senate were vested in twenty-six men, fourteen of whom would constitute a quorum, of which eight would make up a majority."
-Akhil Reed Amar, The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
"What other quorum in American history, save those who wrote our constitution, could claim as much impact on our day-to-day lives?"
-Gavin de Becker, [2]The Gift of Fear
Quorum comes from the Latin quorum, "of whom," from qui, "who." The term arose from the wording of the commission once issued to justices of the peace in England, by which commission it was directed that no business of certain kinds should be done without the presence of one or more specially designated justices.
Feeling a bit snarky, given my earlier post today, and having spent far too much time thinking about parole and probation (despite the fact that it is my job), I will ask to be pardoned from this really bad drabble. (Paroled, perhaps, as bad drabbles are hardly new to me?) The Halls of Mandos just always call to mind the Parole Commission....
Jeez, I need a new job....
A Death Sentence
Maedhros’ spirit was uneasy. Had be been able to pace, he would have. Had he been able to worry his nails, he would have. But he could not because he was dead and imprisoned in the Mandos’ Halls, without corporeal form.
But perhaps, he hoped, not forever.
Melkor, after all, only served a term of three ages, and Maedhros didn’t believe his deeds—however fell—were as wicked as those of Morgoth.
Fëanor, better at siphoning information, having dwelled here longer than Maedhros, appeared before him. “I have your verdict,” he said and smiled bitterly. “Once again: death by quorum.”
digdigil) has said, "Enough talking about child molesters! It is time to move onto happier topics! Give us the drabble-word, dammit!"Okay, so maybe those weren't her exact words, but here it is, nonetheless:
quorum \KWOR-uhm\, noun:
1. Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is legally competent to transact business.
2. A select group.
"The extraordinary powers of the Senate were vested in twenty-six men, fourteen of whom would constitute a quorum, of which eight would make up a majority."
-Akhil Reed Amar, The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
"What other quorum in American history, save those who wrote our constitution, could claim as much impact on our day-to-day lives?"
-Gavin de Becker, [2]The Gift of Fear
Quorum comes from the Latin quorum, "of whom," from qui, "who." The term arose from the wording of the commission once issued to justices of the peace in England, by which commission it was directed that no business of certain kinds should be done without the presence of one or more specially designated justices.
Feeling a bit snarky, given my earlier post today, and having spent far too much time thinking about parole and probation (despite the fact that it is my job), I will ask to be pardoned from this really bad drabble. (Paroled, perhaps, as bad drabbles are hardly new to me?) The Halls of Mandos just always call to mind the Parole Commission....
Jeez, I need a new job....
A Death Sentence
Maedhros’ spirit was uneasy. Had be been able to pace, he would have. Had he been able to worry his nails, he would have. But he could not because he was dead and imprisoned in the Mandos’ Halls, without corporeal form.
But perhaps, he hoped, not forever.
Melkor, after all, only served a term of three ages, and Maedhros didn’t believe his deeds—however fell—were as wicked as those of Morgoth.
Fëanor, better at siphoning information, having dwelled here longer than Maedhros, appeared before him. “I have your verdict,” he said and smiled bitterly. “Once again: death by quorum.”
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