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- From: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Have X, will trav
- Message-ID: <651.18.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 07:58:00 GMT
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- Organization: PCS-BBS - San Jose, CA - 408-270-4085
- Reply-To: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
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- TO: greg.grainger@rose.com (greg grainger)
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- GG>There was a television program from the late fifties called 'Palladin', in
- >which the protagonist (who was a kind of good-guy gunfighter) had a
- >business card which read 'Have gun. Will travel.'
-
- And if you look up "paladin", it comes from a chivalrous knight of the
- Middle Ages, who in turn is based on a Roman palace guard - folks who
- "had sword, would travel." It's not exactly from the 1950's; it's over
- 2,000 years old.
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