What is the etiology and origin of the term "red tape"?
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The colorful term used to refer to the seemingly endless parade of paperwork that accompanies many official matters got its start back in jolly old England. It seems that thick legal documents were bound or tied with (what else?) red cloth tape. So when someone spoke of cutting through the red tape, they meant it in a very literal sense.
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Not quite sure about this but I think the phrase may have been coined by William Burroughs. Originally referring to someone with a heroin addiction. Not sure about the monkey image either but I'd guess that if you had a monkey jump on you, it would dig its claws into your back and be quite difficult to remove (like an addiction)...of course this is all a random guess.
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Where did you learn this from?  I've never heard of it.
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I could pretend to already know WHO invented the idea, even though I do know what it means, but instead I'll just give you the link to the Wikipedia article that tells you who came up with it:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-strategy\n\n\nHope that helps.
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CRED:  Center for Research on Environmental Diseases\n Could the word you are wondering be "crit"?  Short for hematocrit..,.This has to do with the volume of erythrocytes in a given volume of blood.  Other than what I have said, I do not know what you are possibly referring to.
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"Better dead than red" entry on the Wikipedia website.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_dead_than_red\n\n"'Better dead than Red' was an anti-Communist phrase first used during World War II in its original German form 'Lieber tot als rot' and later during the Cold War by the United States. It was coined by Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels in the end phase of the Second World War to motivate the German military and population to fight the Russians to the end."\n\nMore can be found on Wikipedia on their entry on anti-communist.\n"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist\n\n"He [Mikhail Bakunin] loathed the idea of a vanguard party ruling the masses from above, quipping that 'when the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."'"
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The is NO DOUBT in my mind that it is a total FARCE. These are the same people who recommended duct tape to seal your house in case of a chemical, biological, and radiological attack. Look at how much contraband that has eluded  airport checkpoints. Look at how FEMA and the rest of the US government handled the Hurrican Katrina diaster in  New Orleans. Need I cite any more examples?
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That the US has used scare tactics often in the last 100 years is a good observation.  But is it too many times?  Probably not.  Most of the instances I can think of were justified.  Government scare tactics united the population against the Germans and Japanese in W W II and the Soviets during the Cold War.  These were very bad people.  We had every reason to be afraid of them.  Maybe the fear mongers were wrong about Vietnam and the Domino Theory, but I think they honestly believed it at the time and felt they were doing a service by alerting the public.
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Actually, it apparently DOES, but I'll have to find the info.  The guy who "discovered" it believes that it works by starving the skin of oxygen, if I remember correctly, and that's why it's important to use at least 2 layers and leave the tape in place (putting fresh over the old if it starts to peel up) for quite some time.  If I can find a link, I'll edit to add it.\n\nEdited to add:  Got It!  Check this out:
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Never heard of it.  Call some of the Doctors/Hospitals that would be used and ask them about it.
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I've forgotten the exact details of the story,but once there was a man who for one reason or another was being unjustly hanged in Dublin.The hangman didn't tie the noose properly and instead of breaking his neck,the man slowly choked,hanging there.His wife begged for him to be released,but the only thing that the cruel judge would allow was for her to pull on his leg,speeding up his choking,and killing him faster.That's where the term comes from.
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flashing strobe lights or patterned lights\npower of thought\nplanting a seed-notion...the idea of\n*chinese toture technique:the drip- a series of slow positioning drip/droplet(s) of water  hitting the target on certain areas of face-forehead ,nose- while tied or bound to where victim cannot reach or wipe away- it gets extremely annoying 2 say the least!!
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What started this particular line of inquiry?
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Not sure if this is the origin, but I think it was popularized in the 1989 film "Tango & Cash". After Tango, played by Sylvester Stallone, and Cash, portrayed by Kurt Russell, were thrown into jail and setup in a failed jailbreak attempt, the bad guy Yves Perret (Jack Pallance) locked them in the boiler room with a bunch of felons Tango & Cash had put in jail. Prior to unleashing a can of whoop-ass, their conversation was as follows:\nGabriel Cash: I don't know about you, but I have an aversion to getting F.U.B.A.R...\nRay Tango: What's F.U.B.A.R.?\nGabriel Cash: Fucked-Up Beyond All Recognition.
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Chances are they learned to label and categorize people with different ideas than their own from right wing extremists, you know, people who gleefully toss around terms like "feminazi" and "libtard".\n\n*Sigh*, no that is not what "neo-con" means, but thanks for the disinformation.\n\n A "neo-con" was first termed in 1970 by socialist author and activist Michael Harrington to characterize former leftists who had moved significantly to the right, people he derided as "socialists for Nixon." \n\nThe "neoconservatives" thus described in this original sense tended to remain supporters of the welfare state, but had distinguished themselves from others on the left by allying with the Nixon administration over foreign policy, especially in their anti-communism, their support for the Vietnam War, and strident opposition to the Soviet Union.\n\nIn 2006, a "neo-con can be described as those hard right wingers who are mainly characterized by their interventionist, hawkish views on foreign policy, and their lack of support for the small government principles and restrictions on social and deficit spending, when compared with other American conservatives.
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A red herring is the preliminary prospectus that you are referring to.  It is called red herring because the warning on the cover is written in red.  What this means is that the document is still under review by the SEC and could change.
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The government is known for implementing programs and policies prior to getting the "kinks" out and prior to a proper analysis.  This applies to both democrates and republicans.  Both parties like to put "Band-Aids" on problems to make them temporarily go away.