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    Re: More stupid set names —Tim McSweeney
   Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) Not to be left out, heres some of my favorites: Passenger Buccaneers Road 'n Rail Robo-Peace Keeper Metro Clipper Passenger Ambush Walking Nebula Station Whirling Tug 'Copter Mountain Rally Detector Shark (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: More stupid set names —Todd Lehman
   (...) I think it went up in late January, 1997. --Todd (25 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: More stupid set names —Christopher L. Weeks
   Where does it get the data? Do you have to update it manually, or does it snarf it out of Pause? Does it have this year's themes? (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: More stupid set names —Todd Lehman
   (...) A special data file listing words and word types and associating them with various themes. (...) The assignment of a word type to each word has to be done manually (can't be done in a purely automated way without some seriously futuristic AI (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
 

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