From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia References: <3213041760976232@naggum.net> <9rjts1$jf9$1@news3.cadvision.com> <9rk8v9$nkp$1@news3.cadvision.com> <86wv1d6cg5.fsf@coulee.tdb.com> <3213570717605377@naggum.net> <86pu72eu7c.fsf@gondolin.local.net> <3213910032404080@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3213942620464305@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 09:50:21 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1004953821 193.71.66.49 (Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:50:21 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:50:21 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:19206 * Kent M Pitman | It seems to me like whatever the group is, they got a bad rap. Things | were mostly only taken from them and NOT given back. I don't know why | they, of ALL people, would be associated with inappropriate desire to | have things returned. The history of this expression seems to be that Indians (or whatever) did not deal with one-way gifts, only two-way gifts, and so wanted something in return for giving you something. It seems more applicable when I know the story of this expression, however politically incorrect. /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate. -- Carrying a Swiss Army pocket knife in Oslo, Norway, is a criminal offense.