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Feb 23, 2005, 05:47 PM
 
You get www.georgewbush.com .

I thought it was somewhere between very funny and very scary that this happens. I just did it by accident in a browser window (Firefox).

Look after my manor, or I will bum you, literally, to death.
     
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Feb 23, 2005, 05:56 PM
 
I get failed to load... using Safari here.
     
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Feb 23, 2005, 06:10 PM
 
I get wanker.
     
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Feb 23, 2005, 06:27 PM
 
Originally posted by ajprice:
You get www.georgewbush.com .

I thought it was somewhere between very funny and very scary that this happens. I just did it by accident in a browser window (Firefox).
Firefox does the "I'm lucky" Google-search if it can't find the address. There is nothing scary happening here.
     
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Feb 23, 2005, 09:18 PM
 
So what the heck is GOP anyways? What's it stand for?
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Feb 23, 2005, 09:21 PM
 
Originally posted by Sherwin:
So what the heck is GOP anyways? What's it stand for?
GOP stands for "Grand Old Party"
     
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Feb 23, 2005, 09:25 PM
 
Originally posted by zerostar:
GOP stands for "Grand Old Party"
Really? I take it that's the Republican's nickname then?
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Feb 24, 2005, 11:15 AM
 
Actually,

It is/was "Gallant Old Party".

"For a long time Republicans have been known as the "G.O.P." And party faithfuls thought it meant the "Grand Old Party." But apparently the original meaning (in 1875) was "gallant old party."


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http://www.gop.com/About/GOPHistory/Default.aspx
     
   
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