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sagehen sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Wed Mar 8 21:01:17 UTC 2006


from a post to another list:
"And the Bible is one of the most violent books on record, with rapes,
murders and massacres to book, and I haven't seen a movement to ban it
because of that content."
 I suppose this could be a confusion between "brought to book" and "to boot."
AM


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