you English talkers...

rod steel global · Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 636

have the name "Loopwhole"

some other meaning that just a name ???

:merci

®od

HatefulMusic · Ears bleeding yet? Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 793

Rod - a loophole is term for a shady-yet-not-illegal maneuver out of a normally legally binding agreement or other legal hurdle, normally due to some ambiguity in the word of the law or contract.

The term originally comes from a small hole in a defensive wall used for firing weapons through.

Loopwhole strikes me as just a play on the word.

EDIT: some day I'll learn to type...

Theo

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Edited by: HatefulMusic at: 4/1/05 20:57

rod steel global · Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 636

"Loopwhole strikes me as just a play on the word."

Thank you, just what I wanted to know !

:yo

®od

TGACHAAGA

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

Yeah, Rod, loopwhole looks like either a misspelling or "word-play" on the word "loophole".

But a loophole isn't always a bad thing!

You may sign some contract that takes unfair advantage of you. Then it's a good thing to have a way out that is legal. In that case a loophole would be helpful, kind of like a "brasklapp".

lolson · Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 1009

a loophole can help ME in a contract, too... :bday

thank for replying :merci

--edit--

oups, ®od here !

my kid, Christofer was logged in :ohno

Let there be ®ock

on Interconnected on AcidPlanet with Christofer @ home

Edited by: lolson at: 4/3/05 20:59

SINTZ · Penguin in Bondage Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 388

"Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short, cloth neck ornament, currently in resurgence."

~ Frank Zappa

Gennious · Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 8

A loopho is one that just keeps doing it, again and again and again and again...(loop).

Most males like loopho's.

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

Quote:
A loopho is one that just keeps doing it

Drat! Somebody beat me to that pun!!

BTW, in case any "english talkers" were wondering what a "brasklapp" is (I'm of Swedish ancestry, so I knew the term), I grabbed the snippet below from the web - it explains it better than I can; I haven't finished my first cup of coffee yet....

"Brasklapp = in the 16th century the Swedish bishop Brask saved his life by hiding a small piece of paper (=lapp) saying "I am forced to do this" in his seal to a document whose signatories subsequently were beheaded because they had signed the document.

By cutting his seal open when the other side won he could show that he actually did not want to sign the document. This is a historical fact and he is very admired by presentday politicians."