stance?

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:40 AM -0400 8/9/08, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 8/8/2008 06:52 PM, sagehen wrote:
>>Heard just now on NPR's Olympics report:  Some one's or some team's "stance"
>>as No. 1.  This sounds a bit off to me. I'm not sure why.  I would expect
>>"standing" as being more other-related.  Stance sounds very self-contained.
>>[Probably I'm just getting a bit crotchety in my geriatric state!]
>
>Perhaps it's an "in your face, we're Number 1" posture ...
>
>Joel
>
Maybe it was inspired by Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID), he of the
celebrated "wide stance".

LH

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