Re: New home for list needed-a Case Against Yahoo
It's on their FAQ page, I think.
On Nov 13, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Tomas Sobota wrote:
Ah, is that so. I didn't see that part, sorry. But if they have the
real thing as inspiration, why use a film title? Oh well, in any
case I also liked the Life of Brian :-)
Back to topic, which in my case means silence, since I know nothing
of PVA ...
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Katharine Thayer
<kthayer@pacifier.com> wrote:
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.
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