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Re: basic question: going back to dired
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Chris McMahan |
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Re: basic question: going back to dired |
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Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:07:30 -0400 |
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I seem to remember from my early school days it was a campaign slogan
for someone nick-named Kinderhook that went something like
Old Kinderhook is OK
- Chris
"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 22:38, Juanma <juanma_bellon@yahoo.es> wrote:
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>> For all I know, it comes from "0 Knock-outs" (from USA civil war times,
>> IIRC), i.e., all went really well.
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> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay#Etymology
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> "0 knock-outs" is among the "Improbable or refuted etymologies".
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> Juanma
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