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Old 25-Jun-2007, 17:31
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Default Re: Channeling Churchill

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Originally Posted by ian2 View Post
The meaning has become very clear now. Thank you both for your professional assistance. Have a good summer.

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If you're happy, good. There is another interpretation. There is (in the UK) an insurance company called 'Churchill'. For some time (possibly not long enough to justify my conjecture!) it has had a advertising campaign based on the slogan 'Challenge Churchill'. The advertisements show a satisfied customer saying 'I challenged Churchill too ...'; the 'challenge' is no challenge at all, since the answer is always 'yes' (and anyone who read the Churchill web-site would know it was always going to be that).

If 'channel' in your quote was a typo for 'challenge', it could mean that the author was just asking questions with obvious answers. Maybe not...?

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