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(...) No, no, no. I meant #1 in terms of the first language he learned to speak. Sheesh. ;) And who's up late?!? best LFB FUT->o-t.fun (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) Ack, I just had to get used to hearing colleagues from Israel talk about having to teach classes on Sunday. ;) (...) You know, I had to do the same thing when I moved to New Jersey (insert "NJ" for "IDF"). However, I think the pay in the IDF (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And I have toxic waste! (New Jersey.) Ignore those trees, clear blue lakes, and deer! It's a toxic dump, I tell ya! (...) Agreed. But after a summer in Birmingham (UK), I'm sick of Cadbury's too. German chocolate is hard to beat, IMHO--Dutch (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What they said. I wasn't saying that Bruce wasn't saying what I said. (Did that make sense? Probably not, but it's bedtime for me.) This is one of the debates around imperialism of any kind--the host culture is affected, and in ways specific (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think 699 should be easier to find...even a picture will show you how to build it just about. I thought this was on brickshelf...if it isn't, I might have to scan my instructions. Benjamin Whytcross BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au Ph: (03) (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) If you can find 669. The instructions for it arent even on brickshelf, so you cant even make it out of other bits. (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hehe... #4: Dutch #3: Spanish #2: German #1: English Lindsay... You know you're up late when you can't count <grin, duck and run> -Shiri (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well...try set 699 for a start...you get a lion, elephant, hippo, giraffe, and zebra...That should be enough for a small town. Benjamin Whytcross BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au Ph: (03) 9856 5282 Directory Technology Pty Ltd 1/436 Elgar Road, (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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<!!!Potentially Offensive Joke About Language Proficiency Alert!!!> (heh) (...) As the joke goes, if you know three languages, you're trilingual. If you know two languages, you're bilingual. If you know one language, you're English. If you know no (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep, that's quite useful. Unfortunately, e-bay doesn't cover trades/sales :( Benjamin Whytcross BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au Ph: (03) 9856 5282 Directory Technology Pty Ltd 1/436 Elgar Road, Box Hill, 3128 Growing older is compulsary..Growing (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) At least on ebay it's quite clear where each auctioneer will ship to, thankyou to all those 'will ship internationally' sellers. If you go in thru ebay.com.au you can even tick the box 'items available to Australia' before you start. pete.w (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Cheer up, Paul, you may get a chuckle out of this story. Okay, so I'm driving along the road (in Northern California, USA) all properly in my Volvo station wagon with my four- and six-year-old kids safely buckled in their seats, and I'm (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) The dominant economic power of the time will be subject to 'osmosis',the flow is always both ways. People of surrounding/less economically strong countries will always attempt to migrate to the stronger culture, while the goods flow out. The (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Great idea Santosh, get it down on disk/paper, we'll worry about the bricks and windows when we get there. pete.w (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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(...) Disneyfication (...) idea (...) entirely (...) Indeed each 'culture' has an obsession with 'home-grown=100% pure' (...) own (...) Some call it Coca cola colonisation. (...) been (...) Australian (...) there (...) One of the guys at work (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ugh, does that sound familiar... I get asked if everyone in Israel speaks Yiddish (heck no!), if I ride a camel to school (!), and "are you SURE it's not all a big desert?!" Not to mention that I have to defend the IDF* :-) ...First of all I (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I've never tasted Hershey's, but I do know Cadbury's is miles ahead of Whitmans for taste. [The only good thing I can say for Whitmans is that the boxes would probably be good for storing small lego parts in.] Benjamin Whytcross (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have coyotes and roadrunners in mine. :-) What myth? Hershey's chocolate sucks. Cadbury's not the best, but it's a darn sight better than most of the junk they sell in America. Bruce (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Maybe this discussion was never going to gain anything major, but I'd hope that it might have shown at least 1 person in the US that the world exists outside the US, and that the people who do live outside the US would at least like some (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Semi-permanent on a temporary basis until we decide to come home. Two years is a good number for us at this stage. It's a work transfer/life experience/lets see what the rest of the world is like type thing. (...) Cool, the cogs are (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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