hello again
thank you for your comments:
I was only interested in semantics,and absolutely not in a political debate

the thing is that I knew the expression "to spin out" which is to make a joke or a story much longer than needed, but had never encountered "to spin" alone:apparently it's almost the same meaning....and we have that in France too,with one of the runners-up for presidency who is a grand master spinner

good Easter week end to you all!
time to spin some eggs

jim