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(...) I was looking through this thread to find someone saying this, if not I was going to say it myself. I take a slightly different stance tho, to my mind swear words are useful expressions of extreme emotion and if you use them in general (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ben, Have you (or any 1000steine folks) ever seen one of these? (URL) 1962-65 European catalogs show the 1:87 cars with a red garage and a white base (the base is incorrectly shown as gray in most catalogs, except for the British ones, which (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Arne, The 1x6 and 1x8 bricks from 1955-56 (the first years for printed bricks) both had 3 "sections" underneath (although starting in 1957 the 1x8 bricks had 4 sections underneath). On my bricks (with no "LEGO" on the studs) the middle section (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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 | | Re: Bye, bye LUGNET---WHY SWEAR?
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(...) The true master of language doesn't place any word in the English vocabulary off limits. In some cases, the rude word is just the correct one. Just ask Chaucer, William Shakespeare, DH Lawrence, or Henry James. Stupid use of a cuss word is (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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 | | Re: Bye, bye LUGNET---WHY SWEAR?
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(snip) two words: WHY SWEAR? My experience has been that people who swear continually aren't intelligent enough to come up with a better word to use in their vocabulary. (I figure I'm going to get some nasty comments from that statement..let's see (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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