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#1 2009-12-14 12:48:13

ewmayer
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Registered: 2009-10-23
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"unmitigated gaul"

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/on … /#comments

“Rikky Says:
December 14th, 2009 at 10:33 am

the unmitigated gaul of these people to tell us the Fed’s independence is sacrosanct when in fact they are not independent at all”

Is this another “Asterix joke”?

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#2 2009-12-15 09:16:16

DavidTuggy
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Registered: 2007-10-11
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Re: "unmitigated gaul"

Are Gauls understood to be brutal? A connection of that sort could be eggcornish.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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