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| Beaker wrote: <snip> Yup. Tangential but appropros: "those who would give up a little freedom in exchange for security are doomed to soon have neither" is a paraphrase of a famous quote. For 100 points, who said that? (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Great, now I have diseases(1) named after me. :-) It would be touching, but I have no idea which of my idiosyncracies Tom is picking on, so I didn't get the reference. :-) (...) 1 - Mental illnesses? (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) The judges are having trouble deciding if you answered correctly. :-) Thomas Paine wrote some great stuff but Ol' Poor Richard was who I had in mind all right. (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) The latter. high is a modifier of "crimes and misdemeanors" and refers to the office held by the alleged perpetrator. See the Federalist Papers. Once, long ago, I even posted a URL to an online version. The other parsing doesn't make much (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Oh... ya... well... see, I forgot that 69xx was space. Don't pay much attention to space(1). Ya, that's it, I forgot. (2). Actually, I would have been just as happy if the two Space sets were numbered in synch with 6399, but it just seems more (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) holiday. So I'll do it Monday, and I'll get my special friend there, she'll realise the gravity of the situation. :-) My order will be: 1 - each starwars set, to be starwars complete (for later shipment) 20 - 5216 black slope 5 - 5321 big (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I'll say! I may just have to take a sabre saw, a tape measure and 2 C clamps out to CO! (1) Unfortunately the title you got this from appears to be out of print. Here's a URL to Amazon showing it anyway. Now where's that used book store I (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) express and ANWB Breakdown (Both of which Nik built today and they go together pretty good) but those are out of production and very expensive. Doesn't the little eXtreme team airboat use a few? DO they HAVE to be 1x6, or would more 1x4s work. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) I would never sign up to coordinate the whole thing, but can see doing some contributing. I suspect several others feel the same way I will try my hand at a few Q and As today but would rather post them in lugnet.faq than send them. Posting (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.general)
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| Todd Lehman wrote: <moderated technical difficulties> This is your server and you have the source. Why do it the conventional way? Instead of mailing the proposed article, save it on the server. Moderator then periodically uses the web interface to (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 2140 has no "Town" label on it. But it's in a blue background box like other Town sets. I prefer to proceed the other way: 2140 says "LEGO System" on it. Therefore it is not Technic, nor Duplo, nor Primo. Given that it is "System".. is it (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| (...) Saturday Night Live. A late night (1) live show on NBC, one of our major networks (2) in which the performances were Live. (3) There were a number of recurring characters (4) and this bit is a parody of the Pathological Liar character. OK, now (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Mike Stanley wrote: <lots of target stuff yet> Must be nice. I am stuck in GR because of snow, I don't get to CO till Tuesday, and the Target on 28th seems to have returned what little Lego they have back to full price. However Barry McFarland (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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