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To: Dead Corpse

I do to, but I won’t voice them here! LOL!


916 posted on 12/05/2007 2:13:58 PM PST by Monkey Face (If we are what we eat, I'm cheap, fast and easy.)
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To: Monkey Face
I was thinking Ostracism.

The Athenians also had a method of removing politicians they disliked. At an assembly each year men wrote the name of an unpopular politician on pieces of broken pottery. If 600 men voted against him he was banished for 10 years. This practice gave us the word ostracize. -Source

Here's the Wiki on it.

Not sure how many that "600" would represent, but we should be able to extrapolate a percentage.

917 posted on 12/05/2007 2:23:33 PM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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