Olivier Crête <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:06:49 -0500:
> On Fri, 2007-09-03 at 15:57 +0000, Jeff Rollin wrote: >> >> Hahah, yes! - But /which/ House of Commons?! > > I believe none of them is a great example of civility... (at least ours > isn't). This calls to mind one of the explanations for the origin of "toe the line". (There are several, none of which seems to be accepted as authoritative, maybe it had multiple roots.) See the introductory paragraph under the wikipedia entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line As it was when I posted (permanent link to entry snapshot): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toe_the_line&oldid=112889933 -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
