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But it made such an excellent pun. I know what reins are. : )


On Jun 10, 2008, at 6:34 PM, Gene GeRue wrote:

> > No. I never said I expected Obama to reign in govt.
>
> I try really, really hard to overlook misspellings--I make them
> myself--but this one is bugging me. Unless it is to be construed as a
> convoluted double entendre, one tries to "rein in" government as one
> would rein in a horse. A "reign" is the time of rule of a sovereign
> king or queen, or such, colloquially used for others also, such as a
> president who acts as if he were a king, as in, "during the reign of
> George II."
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