From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 23 16:59: 6 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 16:59:04 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFADF37B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:59:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA25475; Sun, 24 Dec 2000 11:03:57 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <02ef01c06d45$f373d6c0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Giorgos Keramidas" Cc: "Jason" , "Jeremiah Gowdy" , , References: <002301c06a1d$a52783c0$19bad818@debbie> <002701c06a25$27e7c9d0$aa240018@cx443070b> <006a01c06a40$11ffc580$ad181f40@bignet.net> <06fc01c06a28$7d9c3840$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <00b401c06a45$4d279020$ad181f40@bignet.net> <072301c06a2e$11c77ca0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20001223224429.H48060@hades.hell.gr> Subject: Re: Why do you support Yahoo! Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 11:07:37 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sounds better the way I heard it even if its not "politically correct" :) :) :) > > Were you aware where the word "politics" originated ?? > > > > Well firstly there's "poli" which comes from some old greek / roman / latin > > / whatever and means "many" ..... then there's "ticks", which as we all > > know are "bloodsucking parasites" .........ergo ..... politics means "many > > bloodsucking parasites" !!!!!! > > Nice. Really nice! > > However, `politikos / politiki' is a word that comes from ancient Greek, and > lives in modern Greek until this day. It means `of polis', i.e. one that > `belongs to the "polis"', where `polis' is the Greek word for `city'. > > Of course a city's parasites, *do* belong to the city; among other things :-))) > > - giorgos > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message