Debian Developers - Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?

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Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?

David Palmer

2004-09-07, 3:37 am

Theodore Ts'o wrote:

>On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 08:41:42PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
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>The story that I've heard is that the term was coined during the
>U.S. / Mexican war (where the U.S. essentially stole a large part of
>Texas from Mexico at gun-point --- personally, as far as I'm
>concerned, you can have Texas back as long as you take George Bush
>with it :-), the American soldiers were often heard to sing the song,
>"Green Grow the Rushes Oh" as they marched through Mexican territory,
>and that's where the term "Gringo" came from.
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http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/gringo.htm
Regards,

David.

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