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Subject: 
Re: what is ALE?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 3 Jun 2005 21:10:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler wrote:
   For comparison, I’ve built a bunch of shirts and/or coats of chain mail. When they’re displayed, someone will invariably say “you need to get a life,” rather than “you connected 70,000 links by hand? That’s cool.” Oh, well. I can let it bother me, or I can dismiss the detractor as a knucklehead(1).

Dave!

(1) That same knucklehead will, approximately 87.46% of the time, observe that “this won’t stop a bullet.” Thanks for the ballistics lesson, you knob. And I note that your ceramic/composite flak jacket won’t stop a weapon from 800 years in the future, either.

Dave, I got a good chuckle out of your knucklehead comments. Very funny!

Eric



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(...) That's a good point. If I were to hear a child described as "into trains," I would just assume that it meant Thomas, or maybe that he liked to watch his parents' train sets. More than being "accepted" as an adult hobby, I'd guess that it's a (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)  

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