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On 28/03/2013 23:53, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 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?)
>

Surely you can spade a lot more things than dirt?

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