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    Re: A Small Rant About Word Usage —Allan Bedford
   (...) Perhaps it's the word order that's causing you grief. What if you said, "I call for the ouster of the CEO." No, that's the same, isn't it? Eclectic English and its scrambled semantics! :) Regardless, the definition does seem to be accurate, (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: A Small Rant About Word Usage —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) I expect Orion was hearing it a LOT... up till about 2 November. Then I expect the calls stopped. But they'll start up again come 2007... (Orion is in the US Navy, his CEO is a fellow who formerly unsuccessfully ran a major league baseball (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: A Small Rant About Word Usage —Orion Pobursky
   (...) Yeah well, I would have voted Libertarian if I'd though it would have made a difference but alas the Libertarian Party has no real chance of winning elections and they have right shifted too much I my opinion. I'm realy caught in a quadery as (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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