On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:59:59 PM UTC-5, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Mark Haniford 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
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>> Simon is german so his people are used to insulting and doing much worse 
>> things to people.
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>
> And yet you managed to outdo him in just one sentence (and I'm not talking 
> about quoting an entire digest for a one line answer, which in itself is 
> reason enough for an old fashioned e-pillory).
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> -- 
> Cédric
>
> It's an old tradition.  Consider the famous newspaper lead on the 1966 
World Cup:

"If, on the morrow, the Germans beat us at our national game, we’d do well 
to remember that, twice this century, we have beaten them at theirs."

Eric
 

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