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Article #104754Re: Why do Universal Combat fans hate good games ?
From: Alfie [UK]
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:51
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:51
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On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:00:07 GMT, "Bill Huffman" <bhuffma1@san.rr.com> wrote: >"Daniel "Naughty Tentacles" Blakemore" ><Daniel.Blakemore@nospam.btopenworld.com> wrote in message >news:dud0pg$shv$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com... >> ...or sectioned... ;D (Do they call it the same thing in the States?) > >In the USA sectioned would probably be drawn and quartered or just cut up >into pieces. > I think he's referring to 'compulsory admittance to a mental health hospital', in the US you'd probably say 'he should be committed'. Which is odd, because the US had 'section 8' which was a discharge from military service on mental health grounds, referred to by troops as being 'sectioned'. Seems it never made it out into mainstream US slang. -- Alfie <http://www.delphia.co.uk/> Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the great programmers.
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