>>You having a go at Anglo here? Cos surely "standing for office" is a US term too?
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>Nope. Here, you "run for office."
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>However, I suspect the origin goes back to everyone meeting to vote, and the candidates literally standing.
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>Tamar
I'd imagine you'd get morte votes by standing and orating than running round the room breathlessly wheezing the lies! :-)
Mind you, who "runs" now in te USA? What with the obscene billions spend on the pres. elections, I'd imagine stretch limos to the "running".
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
