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I seem to remember from my early school days it was a campaign slogan
for someone nick-named Kinderhook that went something like

Old Kinderhook is OK

- Chris

"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 22:38, Juanma <juanma_bellon@yahoo.es> wrote:
>
>> For all I know, it comes from "0 Knock-outs" (from USA civil war times,
>> IIRC), i.e., all went really well.
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay#Etymology
>
> "0 knock-outs" is among the "Improbable or refuted etymologies".
>
>    Juanma
>
>

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