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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)