I know just what you mean.
Then why do they always buy shoes in trios?
2 for wearing, 1 for pounding
Godless commies!
Better dead than red!
54 40 or fight!
No, wait a minute…
OK, listen up, let’s get this thing straight:
First of all, there was never such a thread. Secondly, the thread was never closed. Thirdly, it was already closed when samclem found it.
Hope this clears it up for everyone.
hank you, politruk Martin Bigfoot. All is clear.

54 40 was when the proto-socialist state of Soviet Canuckistan defended its future socialist province of British Columbia from the imperialist southern capitalists.
Heavy lifting in the defence was done, of course, by imperialist capitalist Britain, inadvertently aiding the northern North American proletariat.
Class struggle makes strange bedfellows.