Talk:Another place

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The text said: "a Member of Parliament will never speak directly of the House of Lords, but will instead always refer to it as another place. Likewise a member of the House of Lords will always refer to the Commons as another place", but that's not true. For example in http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds06/text/60614-01.htm the Lord Falconer of Thoroton said "House of Commons" during a debate in House of Lords and also Lord Forsyth of Drumlean asks "which powers would be taken from the House of Commons and given to this place". So I edited the article.

One example doesn't undo a tradition. 216.135.32.188 (talk) 20:59, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Other uses for the euphemism "the other place"[edit]

It is well known that students and academics of both Cambridge and Oxford refer to each others by using the euphemism "the other place". Eg: "oh!, I was not aware that doctor Collins teached at the other place".

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--- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.216.142.142 (talk) 18:53, 17 June 2009 (UTC) What about Harrow and Eton? In the film Withnail & I the phrase is used in that context...? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.96.43 (talk) 02:27, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

United States Congress[edit]

The United States House of Representatives has a phrase like this to refer to the Senate, and the United States Senate has a phrase to refer to the House, but I have not found the phrase yet. Perhaps some other editor knows it.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 21:17, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Euphemism for "Hell"[edit]

I always took it that "the other place" was euphemism for hell, and it was being used playfully to indicate that one house thought they were better than the other. quorn3000 (talk) 09:10, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

This article has only one reference for the entire main passage, yet several for the single-sentence 'College rivalries' section. I've added the refimprove tag to highlight this, and wanted to clarify that this relates to the main passage specifically. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:46, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]