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Great question, PH. We have a whole other language over here that even the Brits have difficulty with.
A nasty bastard with a drink problem.
Worse than your best second hand sales person.:) Your American version fancies himself as a cowboy, the Hollywood stereotype cowboy. And as for
Gombeen.
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Bram Stoker wrote a short story with the title "The Gombeen Man" in 1890, and the phrase also crops up in the Wandering Rocks episode of James Joyce's Ulysses:
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...and one of the major reasons that I gave up posting to Volconvo. I want to debate with posters with different views. I would hope that I might vary their opinion. But if a poster is dishonest with sources or images, then there is no point bothering to post. I also had difficulty with 'Breaking News' becoming TAINTED NEWS with no attempt made to correct this even when highlighted. The INTEGRITY of the forum should be rule one at all times, or else...
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Sheehan Among 4 Convicted of Trespassing
Monday December 11, 2006 5:16 PM
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NEW YORK (AP) - Peace activist Cindy Sheehan and three other women were convicted of trespassing Monday for trying to delivery an anti-Iraq war petition to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and refusing to leave.
A Manhattan Criminal Court judge sentenced them immediately to conditional discharge, which means they could face some form of penalty if they are arrested in the next six months, and ordered them to pay $95 in court surcharges.
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The four were acquitted of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing government administration. They had faced up to a year in jail if convicted of all counts.
Apparently Peggy Kerry testified during the trial that the presentation seemed like a publicity stunt. I thought the courts were supposed to be independent in the US. No wonder that 'democracy' has such a bad name world wide now, or at least that older American version that clearly does not work.