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#1 2005-10-26 23:51:43

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'source for the goose' for 'sauce for the goose'

Often a deliberate pun, especially in discussions of open-source software, but lots of apparently sincere instances too. Examples:

If you have weapons of mass destruction, what stops me from having them? After all, what is source for the goose is source for the gander.
www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=15580

Certainly the returning of property must be a two way thing in my book—source
for the goose and all that.
www.network54.com/Forum/thread-134812-1 … yprus+Mail

they are only saying: Let the source for the goose of the majority ethnic groups, be the source for the gander of the minorities.
news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/vanguard/2005/07/01/southsouth_a_revolt_against_injustice.php

Dialogue Webpage for Conflicts Worldwide
...This is a dangerous situation. What is a source for the goose is a source for the gander.
www.dwcw.org/cgi/wwwbbs.cgi?Iraq&247

Was not that a mirror image of You labelling us? so, what is source
for the goose, is not good for the gander? ...
www.asiawind.com/forums/read.php?f=3&i= … 101517&v=f

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