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Re: OT: Mildy OT: "Freedom kiss"?

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Thursday, March 13, 2003, 9:52
Staving Sally Caves:

>Maybe we could replace every foreign concept we don't like with the word >"freedom." French dressing. Freedom dressing! Arabic numerals. Freedom >numerals! Russian Roulette. Freedom Roulette! Oops, but that's a Freedom >borrowing, there.
Thus "Freedom" comes to mean "anything the regime hates". "In the name of Democracy, we must stamp out Freedom!" "We must stand firm against the Axis of Freedom!" I can hear Bush the Builder saying it already. Pete Bleackley