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Re: what is ALE?
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 3 Jun 2005 21:10:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler wrote:
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For comparison, I’ve built a bunch of shirts and/or coats of chain mail.
When they’re displayed, someone will invariably say “you need to get a life,”
rather than “you connected 70,000 links by hand? That’s cool.” Oh, well. I
can let it bother me, or I can dismiss the detractor as a knucklehead(1).
Dave!
(1) That same knucklehead will, approximately 87.46% of the time, observe
that “this won’t stop a bullet.” Thanks for the ballistics lesson, you knob.
And I note that your ceramic/composite flak jacket won’t stop a weapon from
800 years in the future, either.
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Dave, I got a good chuckle out of your knucklehead comments. Very funny!
Eric
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| (...) That's a good point. If I were to hear a child described as "into trains," I would just assume that it meant Thomas, or maybe that he liked to watch his parents' train sets. More than being "accepted" as an adult hobby, I'd guess that it's a (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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