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Hi all, With the announcement today of the NHL agreement, there is added impetus to rename lugnet.football (lugnet.soccer) to be lugnet.sports, to encompass football/soccer, the NBA sets, future NHL sets, and any potential future sports themes. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I think so too, but with the (more international) name "sport" instead of "sports"... i.e.: lugnet.sport with the potential for sub-expansion, for example: lugnet.sport.basketball lugnet.sport.football lugnet.sport.hockey --Todd (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Works for me! The problem though is... what is football? With the international flavor of the name you can make an excellent and valid argument that football is soccer and not NFL. (if and when NFL ever gets licensed) Also, I wonder if the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) What about AFL???? Yeah, yeah, I know it's never gonna get licensed by TLC - I just wanted to hassle Lar about being US-centric again 8?) FUT .loc.au ROSCO (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) As much as I've always wanted this to happen, it'd be kinda hard. Kicking, the football itself, the field, and running all come into factor. (...) Your right. It works well for everything but that. My only suggestion would be to use spanish (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) AFL! Cool. Great source for yellow arms. And when the figs wear out after a couple of seasons, we could just give them a fishing rod and one of those beanie hats from Xtreme sports, and reuse them as light entertainment stars. But this (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) The official name Lego uses is "LEGO Sports". I don't know if this matters in the naming of it. I don't mind either way - I am just being nit-pickety. :-) (...) Considering how many subthemes the space and castle theme have, and considering (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Real life sport, my antipodean friend. These LEGO themes need to be examined closely, though, and evaluated to determine their usefulness. Hence I'm interested. Because, remember... ALL other themes are merely spare parts for Trains! Hope that (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Is that the case? Well, what about (...) from (URL) that you go on to claim to not like the sport, while you also discuss the technicalities - so you must pay *some* attention to it, right?) or (...) from (URL) were you just watching the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) At least using a web browser as an interface, if you read the .castle group you see the .castle.ninja posts as well. So if a theme had subgroups for the subthemes they would all still show up in the more general group. Any other MOC that fell (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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Bruce Hietbrink wrote in message ... (...) than (...) In NNTP, you only see the specific group, not its subgroups - they come up as a separate group. And remembering what happened when NNTP was down some time ago - the posting rate dropped (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Note the phrasing here... "pay MUCH attention" (emphasis mine). Some small amount can still be paid and not invalidate the truth value of the statement. (...) It would be Un-American not to know that much about Baseball, so I do my patriotic (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Note that this is straying toward .off-topic.debate BUT it still contains (a) a reference to LEGO, (b) a reference to Australia and (c) a reference to a LEGO users group based in Australia. (...) Indeed. It depends what you define as much. If you (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) In that case I would urge against sub-categorization. I doubt there will be such a huge amount of traffic to merit it anyway. Over on fbtb there have been on the order of 80 sports-related posts over the last month (two major threads (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Obviously not a non-stick one. Allister evil clown (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin writes: <much point by point rebuttal> Who's the tireless rebutter again? I think I lost track. I'm torn between responding (because I'm winning, darn it, and because it's so darn silly an argument that it's funny) and (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) All noted for future reference. Naturally ;-) Cheers Richie (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Good, now you can explain it to me! Being from the Deep North of Australia, I grew up where men were men (and sheep were nervous) and football meant rugby, a thug's game played by gentlemen. The sport of Aerial Pingpong (as it was called by (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well, colours are as good a reason as any to pick a team. Collingwood, would be next to Essendon and Carlton as Victoria's most hated team. As for wooden spooners, that would be Carlton and/or St. Kilda (C'arn the SAINTERS) ah, well, at least (...) (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Er, no, ignore the bit about listening to talk of sport by somewhat inebriated punters. Considering the time of night and their state, I felt it was important not to laugh... (...) No, I MEANT to do that. Seedy wasn't the half of it though. (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) What was the other half? Very seedy? Kerry (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well I can't let that go without a response. C'ARN THE CROWS !!! Carl (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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hahahahahaha. What an excellent post. Had me in tears laughing. Two of my closest friends are some of those who migrated from the south. And my father is an ex-southerner (he was born in charliville though). (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I was a bit worried that nobody would make that reply, it was an open door... Glad somebody took advantage, because that is what being aussie is all about, or something. ;-) Trav (-|-) (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Some people think it's a gentleman's game played by thugs... I've never been able to tell. <snip> (...) Actually, I'm pretty sure there's no evidence of you *following* sport. Of course, if you claimed do not pay much attention to sport, I (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Isn't that why it's commonly called "thugby" (especially in the deep south...)? ROSCO (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Two Words. John Hopoate. (...) Given they won the premiership this year would be evidence for the superiority. On the other hand the fact that they were playing a Melbourne team may lower the bar somewhat. And yes, the other team was the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Sorry, I did not explain fully; the bird motif repeated all over it is in a black/white striped jersey, its beak is yellow, and it is holding a red ball, hence from a distance the chair looks black with red/yellow accents. And the word Magpies (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) There are more poor/bad teams in Victoria then anywhere else, and the successful ones are rather hated by everyone else (which is why every loves St Kilda, we can't win games) (...) Well the Brisbane Lions are actually a result of the Brisbane (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) All the football codes have their media stars, just ask G.Ablett who was God until he found himself. Not sure if it's an urban myth or not, but was there a talkback caller in Melbourne, who on hearing of Wayne Carey's off-field activities, was (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Brisbane (...) A quick quiz through my "Wildlife Of Greater Brisbane" reveals a plethora of possibilities for alliterative authentication for pigskin pursuers, e.g. Brisbane Bandy Bandies (black and white striped snake) Brisbane Barred (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Brisbane Bugs? (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) And to prove we have no religious bias, G Hocking is / was "buddha". ROSCO (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) My apologies. Now that's explained, I guess I'm the one who was confused. Anyway... um... Is it a good chair for building LEGO in? James (who is glad cricketers only wear white)* *except of course for the game for those without patience. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Whatever happened to this? This is still a needed forum - now more than ever. (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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