30th August 2004, 12:40 PM
"it's a free country" HAS to be said to others living in the SAME country! That's the only way it makes SENSE! Expressions DO have parts that must be taken literally you know!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)