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| (...) My favorite words when I took German in high school were, strangely enough, Kartoffel, which means potato, and zufrieden, which means content. I think Zufrieden would make a fine name for a pleasure ship, don't you think? Adrian (22 years ago, 12-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
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| (...) Welcome back Gary! (Willkommen zurück? Willkom wieder?) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) My favorite German word is "SCHADENFREUDE", which translates to "showing happiness over other peoples misfortunes". A good example of schadenfreude is the feeling you get when you find out that greedy corporate executives go to jail for their (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) When living there for a few years, "Biergarten", especially when used in a one word sentence ending in a questionmark was always music to my ears. (I was in my dark ages then). "Spielzeugausverkauf" would now be a close second. Paul (22 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
| | |  | | Copywriter Needed
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| I'm working hard on a new community project right now, and I could use a little bit of help. Specifically, it would be great if someone who has good composition skills could help by writing website copy for me. Bonus if the volunteer is (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.people, lugnet.general)
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| (...) hehe Good point, Tim! My other favorite German word: Ausgezeichnet! (It can only be fully appreciated heard out loud as spoken by a German, though) JOHN (22 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, FTX)
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| (...) Mine was always Augenblick because it was easy to figure out what it meant in high school German class. :-) Maggie C (22 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Does the question even require asking here? -Tim (22 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
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| I was listening to National Public Radio All Things Considered when a segment was aired that had me laughing outloud. Apparently, in Germany they are holding a contest for the German's Language Most Pleasing Word. Here the story at: (URL) what is (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
| | |  | | Re: Cheap hotels
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| (...) Definitely interested. -jeremiah- (22 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
| | |  | | P'titgneugneu the stairs climber, was Re: CC3:Stairs,
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| Here is the (URL) write-up> about the robot I built for CC3:Stairs contest, that happened to win ;o) A bit flimsy, not too pretty, but it did the job! (URL) As the results have not been published here, I inserted the official announcement below. (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| (...) I'm responding and interested! Joe (22 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| (...) Oh and for those of you already registered fore BrickFest and looking for roommates. Please use the web resource. (URL) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| (...) I should have an update for you tomorrow about this. I wellcome a show of hands (well, an e-mail) from those interested in getting a room for $89 dollars a night for BrickFest. Please respond here. Christina Hitchcock (22 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest) !
| | |  | | Cheap hotels
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| Does anyone have information regarding inexpensive hotels in the DC area that would work for coming to BrickFest this year? I can fly there and back for $181 but the room rates near GMU are killing me. :-) John Hansen (URL) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
| | |  | | BF 2004 LTC Container Car Swap Call for Participation
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| Hello, I will be heading up this year's LTC container swap. If your club is interested in participating, please have a club representative e-mail me with your club affiliation and information. Also e-mail me a list of container cars that your club (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !!
| | |  | | COLTC Marcon show report
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| About 10 days ago, COLTC displayed at Marcon 38. Despite the small layout, we managed to show quite a bit of new stuff. Another skyscraper (One Nationwide): (URL) a space Area: (URL) a Medieval Village: (URL) and a small town section under attack of (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX) !!
| | |  | | Re: Brickfest 2004 Animation Contest announcement
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| New information and details about the animation contest have been posted to the brickfilms.com web site: (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.animation)
| | |  | | Saturday June 19th Cleveland Area Gathering
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| I will be hosting an informal gathering of AFOLs in the Cleveland, OH area at my house on Saturday, June 19, 2004. Anyone in the area at that time is welcome to come, but I ask that you do please let me know that you are coming so that I can plan (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.loc.us.oh.akr, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events)
| | |  | | BrickFest 2004 Mosaic Event
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| BrickFest attendees will witness the on-site assembly of a 21 panel LEGO mosaic featuring the image of the Capitol Building. In the tradition of the team building challenges at BrickFest and other AFOL events, BrickFest 2004 is no exception. I'm (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.people, lugnet.org, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us) !!
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