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To: grey_whiskers
Not even France? The home of Voltaire and Gibbon?

Gibbon was a cheese eating surrender monkey! Did the South Hampshire Militia (in which he served during the Seven Year War with France) know that?

411 posted on 01/28/2009 11:18:33 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)
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To: Oztrich Boy
Mayhap that has something to do with where the term came from.

Gibbon, Monkey, get it?

(Yawns.)

Way past my bedtime, need to go to sleep.

413 posted on 01/28/2009 11:31:33 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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