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On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:12:21 -0700, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> At some point we have to stop being gentle / polite / politically correct and call a shovel a shovel... er, spade.

	Call it an Instrument For the Transplantation of Dirt

	(Is an antique Steam Shovel ever a Steam Spade?)
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