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Thread #52146 Message #800284
Posted By: The Pooka
10-Oct-02 - 09:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: NI Police raid Sinn Fein offices, homes
Subject: RE: BS: NI Police raid Sinn Fein offices, homes
McGrath - "Well, you leave out three of Ulster's counties, Tim, but it's a good song anyway." Well, Tim leaves 'em out because so did the Treaty. Had Lloyd George carved the Partition so as to take the whole Province, there'd be a united Ireland by now. (I.M. always-H.O. :) But that was the point, wasn't it? "It's all just a question of slicing the salami." - a New York redistricting expert.
Sincerely, U.S. Senator Elbridge Gerry, Rhode Island (patron saint of the Gerrymander)
PS - It's a great song, Big Tim. Both of 'em. -Pook