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Olivier Crête <tester@g.o> posted |
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1173456409.18273.4.camel@localhost, excerpted below, on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 |
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11:06:49 -0500: |
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> On Fri, 2007-09-03 at 15:57 +0000, Jeff Rollin wrote: |
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>> Hahah, yes! - But /which/ House of Commons?! |
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> I believe none of them is a great example of civility... (at least ours |
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> isn't). |
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This calls to mind one of the explanations for the origin of "toe the |
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line". (There are several, none of which seems to be accepted as |
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authoritative, maybe it had multiple roots.) |
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See the introductory paragraph under the wikipedia entry. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line |
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As it was when I posted (permanent link to entry snapshot): |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toe_the_line&oldid=112889933 |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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