Re: New home for list needed-a Case Against Yahoo

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

No, goodness, I didn't just infer that;  they say it explicitly  on  
their page, that the name is meant to be a takeoff on the hapless  
group from Life of Brian.


On Nov 13, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Tomas Sobota wrote:

> Not necessarily so, Katharine. Several political movements in Latin  
> America were/are called so. FLN (Frente de Liberación Nacional) in  
> Colombia, FMLN (Frente Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional) in  
> El Salvador, Frente de Liberación Nacional (Tupamaros) in Uruguay,  
> and so on. Also, the official name of the Viet Cong in Vietnam was  
> (in French) Front National de Liberté. And there was a Front de  
> Libčration Nationale in Argelia.
> A rather common name, actually.
> Tom
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Katharine Thayer  
> <kthayer@pacifier.com> wrote:
>
> And encouraging that the name of the group "Data Liberation Front"  
> is a takeoff on the "Judean People's Front" from The Life of Brian,  
> my all time favorite Monty Python movie.