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To: Blue Highway

Not prison - adorning a tree on Penn Ave in DC as warning to others

19 posted on 11/03/2016 8:02:28 AM PDT by Nailbiter

That would work even better!

34 posted on 11/03/2016 8:22:23 AM PDT by Blue Highway

Not prison - adorning a tree on Penn Ave in DC as warning to others

I have a soft spot for the original...

Not prison - adorning a tree on Penn Ave in DC...
pour encourager les autres!

One of the many British idiosyncrasies that I admire as an adult, having come down to us via the French.*

* "Punishment inflicted to encourage the others, as a deterrent, usually used ironically, and derived from Voltaire's reference in Candide, to the execution of Admiral Byng in 1757: 'The English shoot an admiral now and then to encourage the others.'

47 posted on 11/03/2016 9:06:38 AM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)

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