It's a polite way of saying "They pulled it out of their ass", which is an American idiom (maybe British too?) meaning that something is completely arbitrary or subjective.
Mark
On 18/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Sorry this sentence does not parse for me !! What is it you are saying ?? Thanks, GerardM
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:10 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
"Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)" pathoschild@gmail.com wrote: Hello Crazy Lover,
The subcommittee does not make exceptions to the policy, so discussion should focus on the policy rather than on exempting particular requests.
Yeah, but the policy was pulled from the language committee's backside.
- d.
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