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Can a man be impeached who does not hold office?
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Do you mean President-elect John Smith, or Fred Macdougal, editor of the local paper?
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Well, yes, insofar as "impeach also has the meaning of doubting the credibility of a witness, or to make an accusation against anyone.
But in the legal sense, which is what I guess you are after, "impeach" specifically means "To charge (a public official) with improper conduct in office before a proper tribunal"
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Isn't there a Georgian ritual where, at the first frost of autumn, college freshman in their birthday suits sprint through the orchards while bystanders chuck fruit at them? I think, at such a ritual, the one responsible for pelting a timid freshman and holler with pride "I got 'impeached!"
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Brandon asks: Isn't there a Georgian ritual ...
Hey, how'd *you know about that? Well, now that you've gone and spilled the grits, let me just add that this particular harvest festival at UGA is cheered on by screams of "Go Dawgs!" It's a Southern-fried variation on those Oxford Dons and the boys dancing naked in the moonlight on cross-quarterWhitAutumnSamhain. But don't tell anybody *that part.
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Georgia ritual: I hope not too many billiards are scored.
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Frost? Autumn? Georgia? An all this time you been wssb wsssbrr pss pss wssbr wsssb!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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It's all relative, my dear Faldage.  vide verso
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What on earth is bloW, anyway? Eh?
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Relative? Frost is frost!
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