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Re: basic question: going back to dired


From: Tim X
Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:12:00 +1000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

Juanma <juanma_bellon@yahoo.es> writes:

> On Thursday 31 July 2008, Xah wrote:
>> what's the logic of “OK”?
>
> For all I know, it comes from "0 Knock-outs" (from USA civil war times,
> IIRC), i.e., all went really well.
>
> But this is really off-topic.

I seem to remember it was originally from a presidential campaign -
possibly something like "It will be OK with LBJ". 

tim

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