This would make an awesome ISP name. Beyond the Pale Broadband
> On Jun 27, 2020, at 10:19 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > > > A newspaper article had a politician stating that something was “beyond the > pale”. I understood the phrase from just growing up here and hearing it now > and then – but then I got to thinking about it. Did I really understand the > phrase? What is a pale? Does something make you pale if it is beyond the > pale? Pail? Hum... > > From the interwebs: > From pale (“jurisdiction of an authority, territory under an authority's > jurisdiction”), suggesting that anything outside the authority's jurisdiction > was uncivilized. The phrase was in use by the mid-17th century, and may be a > reference to the general sense of boundary, but is often understood to refer > specifically to the English Pale in Ireland. In the nominally English > territory of Ireland, only the Pale fell genuinely under the authority of > English law, hence the terms within the pale and beyond the pale. The > boundary of the Ashdown Forest (a royal hunting forest) was also known as the > Pale, consisting of a paled fence and a ditch inside, to allow deer to jump > in, but not back out. > > Now, what about impale? And if you impale an impala in the pale did you > break a law? > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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