>>>>You having a go at Anglo here? Cos surely "standing for office" is a US term too?
>>>
>>>Nope. Here, you "run for office."
>>>
>>>However, I suspect the origin goes back to everyone meeting to vote, and the candidates literally standing.
>>>
>>>Tamar
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>>I'd imagine you'd get morte votes by standing and orating than running round the room breathlessly wheezing the lies! :-)
>>
>
>>>morte votes<<
>
>We call that voter fraud. :-)
>
>Tamar
That's the SECOND pop at my FFFUs today! :-)
- 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.
