Last Weekend was Jan Hus day.
Allegedly with the execution in process, the executors had some problems scaling up the fire. An old woman came closer to the bonfire and threw a relatively small amount of brushwood on it. Hus, seeing it, then said, "Sancta Simplicitas!" (Holy Simplicity!) This sentence or its Czech equivalent ("svatá prostota!" or in vocative form "svatá prostoto!") is – more or less ironically – is still used to comment upon a stupid action based on a person's unbelievable naivity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus
possibly, I am just so perverse, I am unredeemable, but I prefer to believe that it is because I live-and-work in an Uber-Dilbert world compounded with Kafkian complexities mitigated only slightly by Kunderan comprehension . . .
“What! You thought THAT would work?!?!?!?! Svata Prostoto!”
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