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| | | (...) Please forgive my enthusiasm, but Jon's post meant something very special to me :) You see, about 8 years ago I made a post to a Star Wars usenet group, coining the term "Gonk" to refer to the two-legged power droid that shows up in every (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce, lugnet.off-topic.fun) !
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| | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Jon Palmer
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| | | | | That was YOU??!! If this is true, (and it looks that way) then I must say that I feel like I am in the presence of greatness. Wow. :^D -Jon (You??!!) -- | The Galactic Shipyard - (URL) My website - (URL) BrickBay Store - (URL) Sullivan" (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Rick Hallman
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| | | | | Wow! That was you? I thought it was a Lucasarts backstage nickname or somethin. :D go figure. ALL HAIL GONK! Rick (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Jon Palmer
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| | | | | | "Rick Hallman" <legodude725@removeaol.com> wrote in message news:Go8t5n.6EJ@lugnet.com... (...) Ya see thats the beauty of it. Only after the name was created by Shaun and embraced by other fans did Lucasfilm endorse it. This was made even more (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Kevin Knoot
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| | | | | Wow. I'm genuinely impressed. You sir, rock. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —David Eaton
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| | | | | (...) I couldn't help but read this title and think that for some reason Shaun had gone nutty and had something against Gonk's. "Gonk-proof" indeed. DaveE (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Brendan Powell Smith
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, I read the title and thought, "Could it be that someone has built something that is utterly gonk-proof? Impossible!" Little did I know that the body of the message would yeild news even more impressive than that. Hearty congratulations (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Alfred Speredelozzi
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| | | | | Of course, all the coolest geek stuff comes from RPI. Nason Hall, no less. You should write to the Alumni Assn., I bet they would give you a mention in the magazine. :) -Alfred (RPI '94) (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | (...) Oh, Hi fellow Alums... Frank (BSCSE '85, MEngCSE '89) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Shaun Sullivan
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| | | | | | | | (...) Ahh, you guys all went a couple of years too early! The graduation speaker in 1996 was Peter Eio, who was at that time president of LEGO US. I never actually saw the speech, but it made for a great spring! LEGO donated about 20 K8's of (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | | | Awww...www!! I am assigning you all the gloating rights possible! You were the luckiest man on campus! I love West Hall! I would probably go insane trying to model all the twisty little passages accurately! Did you have a ghost minifig inside? (It (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | (...) Well, you could always answer "Set K-8"... I wonder if I would have gotten into LEGO earlier had I seen something like this. Which issue of the Alumni magazine was the article in? I'll have to look and see if I still have it. We had Genericon (...) (23 years ago, 14-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | Yeah, there's been a lot of rpi.edu addresses surfacing in this history stuff. -Erik formerly olsone@rpi.edu (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —John Heins
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| | | | | | So......the value of an RPI education is FINALLY made clear. I've been wondering for the past 20 years or so....... A retired BSMgtE (no point in being a CivE in the late 70's)who's been living off his Fine Arts degreed wife for the last (...) (23 years ago, 14-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | (...) Okay, NELUG--you've gotta come up with the $20 to have a "I Coined 'GONK'" shirt made for him. C'mon, you KNOW you want to. On the back you can put the Google addy. ;) best LFB (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Dave Low
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| | | | | | | (...) "Putting the GONK into Power Droids since 1993"?? Bravo Shaun. // dave (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Shaun Sullivan
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| | | | | | (...) *blush* Awww, c'mon guys ... you're embarrassing me ... Ok, how about: "I birthed GONK, and boy, am I tired" ;) on second thought ... -s (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: OMG - GONK PROOF (was Re:Google archives Usenet back to '81) —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | (...) me (...) in (...) (URL) Yeah that was me :-). Of course the links in that 2 1/2 year old message no longer work but you can find it here. (URL) these are the important things. (...) I think you have just won yourself a commemorative GONK (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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