[ale] [OT] Please Help me with my homework

[Tom Freeman]

No problem. I just _really_ didn't get the reference at all.

With a little explanation, I find the reference clever and rather apropos.

Thanks for the explanation tho.


On 04/02/2011 10:09 AM, Drifter wrote:
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> One of the first secret ballots was part of Australian law. But it had 
> an interesting quirk. The ballot often was very large because full 
> texts of legal proposals were printed. The ballot had to be "properly" 
> folded before it was handed back to the election judge to be put into 
> the ballot box. This served as a way to discriminate against the 
> indigineous population as they had no clue about paper and reading the 
> crease lines to figure out how to fold it back up.
>
> I was joking on the folding of maps, not the reading of them.
>
> Sean
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> On Saturday, April 02, 2011 08:05:34 am Tom Freeman wrote:
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> > On 04/01/2011 03:27 PM, Drifter wrote:
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> > > Aha, you might have been able to vote in Australia. :)
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> > >
>
> > > Sean
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> >
>
> > Ok. I'm not getting it. What does having map skills have to do with
>
> > voting in Australia? That is far enough off the wall I'm curious...
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> >
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> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
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> > >
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> > > On Friday, April 01, 2011 02:17:05 pm Tom Freeman wrote:
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> > > > Back in the day (old fogey here) we had that capability. Called a
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> > > > map.
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> > > >
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> > > > 8-) Some of us even learned how to fold them up nicely.
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> >
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