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(...) Good try, but its something you would never have guessed. An American flag. But don't worry, IIRC the stripes were just stacks of red and white (1 x n?) plates and the blue area seemed to be more plates with probably six headlight bricks to (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Everyone still calls it that. I don't think anyone would be upset by what you call it, apart from the highly pedantic... ;-) Okay, so technically, it's the 'Union' flag. A 'Jack' is the national penant hung at the rear of a ship, so it's only (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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< Snip > Quote previous: And Apple Pie is a German recipe, not American. < Snip > Ah. But they immigrated here and brought their strudleie goodness with them. My wife's family is 100% German and Americanized quite well, which I think is the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Have you seen the one I did to liven up the loc.uk sidebar a bit? I've been meanign to tell you about it since your the big mosaicist. I plan to get a better lit pic soon and I've spotted one small error which I have to fix first. This is the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I had seen it. It's a good one. I've only done a tiny one for the back of my piggy-back train car - about five studs by 8 plates. There's no real detail, but you can just about tell what it's supposed to be. It's the French and Germans that (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I suppose we can blame one of your countrymen for perpetuating that misconception: "There was an Old Man of the Cape, Who possessed a large Barbary Ape; Till the Ape, one dark night, set the house all alight, Which burned that Old Man of the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Maggie Cambron wrote: <snip> (...) Too late The name "Jolly Roger" is thought to have originated from a nickname for the devil, "Old Roger". However, it is more likely to have gotten its name from the French word for "pretty red", "Jolie Rouge". The (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I think it's from before that, but it doesn't help. There's a vague rule that monkeys have tails and apes don't, but a lot of macaques have really really short tails that messes that one up. Generally apes hang and swing, so have longer arms (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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