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06 Dec 00 - 10:53 AM (#352359) Subject: St Chad - Patron St of voters? From: Steve Parkes Apparently a lot of folks in the US are being directed here in the (mistaken) belief that they'll learn something about the election! Check it out anyway, it's a nice place -- I've been there often -- and very pleasantly situated in one of the prettiest parts of Lichfield Steve |
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06 Dec 00 - 01:25 PM (#352459) Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters? From: Penny S. Saw an item in the Guardian, making the point that Chad is particularly appropriate as he once stepped down from an appointment as bishop where there was a dispute! Penny |
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06 Dec 00 - 02:09 PM (#352483) Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters? From: McGrath of Harlow St Jude is the patron saint of hopeless cases, so I'd have thought he'd have been the right one for ths election.
At least I now know what to call the little round bits of paper that accumulate in my hole-puncher. If I ever need to refer to them. (And they keep getting stuck and giving me pieces of paper to put in loose leaf files which would appear to be pregnant.) |
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06 Dec 00 - 03:34 PM (#352531) Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters? From: Penny S. My Christmas display has a starry sky of silver chads! I just didn't put two and two together there! Penny |
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07 Dec 00 - 06:16 AM (#352948) Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters? From: Banjer Penny S, even if you had put two and two together you would not necessarily come out with four, three maybe and possibly five. In any event I'm sure someone somewhere would have demanded a recount!!! |
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07 Dec 00 - 10:19 AM (#353038) Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters? From: Kim C Why do they call it a "chad"? Why not a widget, or a doodlefink, or Bob or Tim? |
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07 Dec 00 - 10:26 AM (#353042) Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters? From: Alice I heard that in Chad, Africa, they are counting Americans. (groan, bad joke) |
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07 Dec 00 - 10:38 AM (#353050) Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters? From: MMario the urban myth that I have heard is that someone invented a holepunch that was someposed to eliminate the little bits left over. it was sold as the Chadless holepunch, suppossedly from the name of the inventor sombebody or other Chadless. Therefore, by irrefuteable logic, the pieces left over from other hole punchs must be "chad" |
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07 Dec 00 - 10:45 AM (#353053) Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters? From: Steve Parkes Kim, see here, here and ! |
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07 Dec 00 - 04:44 PM (#353237) Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters? From: McGrath of Harlow Wwell those were enlightening links, especially the last one, which debunks the Mr Chadless theory.
Still, it's another potentially useful four-letter off. "Chad off!" Or "You're just a useless piece of chad!"
And maybe we'll see the new President of the USA referred to as President Chad. "President de facto Chad." |
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07 Dec 00 - 04:45 PM (#353238) Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters? From: McGrath of Harlow Well those were enlightening links, especially the last one, which debunks the Mr Chadless theory.
Still, it's another potentially useful four-letter off. "Chad off!" Or "You're just a useless piece of chad!"
And maybe we'll see the new President of the USA referred to as President Chad. "President de facto Chad." |