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Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:25:14 -0600
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I prefer the term "handicap", since one of its derivations has to do with 
bettting on race horses in Scotland.
The odds makers would  put their odds in a cap and hold the cap high for the 
bettors to draw from, thus "hand in cap". This phrase was defined in the 
Oxford English Dictionary as "a burden placed on a superior being to make 
the more equal to others!

Bobby 

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