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Old 10-Jun-2003, 10:54
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I knew the phrase "whipping boy" from a novel written by Mark Twain, named "prince and pauper" . In it, Prince of Wales had a whipping boy whose function was substituting the prince to be punished when the prince did some mistakes.
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