Group: alt.marketplace · Group Profile · Search for Robine in alt.marketplace
Author: nntp
Date: May 14, 2010 03:30
On Thu, 13 May 2010 07:52:09 +0100, Mike Barnes <mikebarnes@bluebottle.com> wrote: It doesn't help that AFAIK Robin Hood wasn't a farmer, so he wouldn't have had a barn. The non-existence of the thing you are going all around was part of the point of the expression when I first heard it in the forties. If you take a route that goes around Robin Hood's barn, you are going to be gone
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