SH> SV:  But she takes that government check every month, doesn't she?
And
  SH> Chile is a banana republic?

MG> Possibly Otto "thinks" that any country that grows bananas
is a "banana
MG> republic".  :)

Political scientists assign a specific definition to the words "banana
republic."

But who has time to read political science when there are video games to
play and pictures of KITTEH to hunt for?

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