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Re: OT: gas plant (was Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs))



On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:52:24 -0400 (EDT)
davidson@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote:

> for those unfamiliar with the french figurative use of the term gas
> refinery ("usine à gaz"):
> 
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine#Similar_expressions_worldwide

Oops, thanks Wes; I sometimes short-circuit and translate literally  
(not to mention that these days, we've a tremendous number of
these stuffs with poliotics; time may be come to leave country:(


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