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Hey, Aussies, come back to loc.au where you are appreciated for your deadpan humour and laidback attitude to family-friendliness. It's a sad sad world that can't appreciate our sense of humour and it appears that's most of Lugnet these days. Sigh! I (...) (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au) !!
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(...) Maybe our 7-year transportation to loc.au for crimes against inanity is up ? Is 'The Align Parsons Project' still stuck in the recording studio ? The BUGS have been shunted and the STUD's bits got rusty and fell off/would no longer join and (...) (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) * Turn a phrase * fail to get the joke and turn a phrase * take offence and turn a phrase * fail to get the joke and take offence and ... oh stuff this! ROSCO (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) And from another reply-- Is 'The Align Parsons Project' still stuck in the recording studio ? And then ROSCO throws in 'Turn a phrase' and I go, 'Turn of a friendly card', which has been stuck in my head for the past few weeks!!!! Grrr!!! (...) (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hey, no problem! Always happy to help out our Canuck mates! I guess with that stuck in your head, you got Nothing Left to Lose now. ROSCO (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Wow, all of these allusions are Psychobabble to me making me feel like I'm on the outside looking in, but APP is my all-time favorite group, so I'm curious to the genesis (Chapter 1, verse 32) of them. In the real world, JOHN (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Hmm - are you impling that only politicians fail to get your jokes? ;-) (...) Please elaborate on this item - I don't get the joke but I normally am not a troll although I assume that I have made "The List" since I'm a member of Jlug ;-) (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) You always enjoyed doing things Your Own Special Way didn't you John? It sometimes leaves us all in a Land Of Confusion, but I guess it's just a Misunderstanding. That's All. ROSCO (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) I think it's just a turn of phrase, Bob. (...) A member, yes, but do you grok the experience and journey? Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Humour is a very serious business, CL Kerry. I have learned that some things are far too serious to joke about. (...) YES! It's been a long time, and lugnet has been sadly short of statistics! (I did note a suggestion for the compilation of (...) (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Not that phrases mean anything... (...) As well as can be expected from someone who is not member No. 6, but I have read the (URL) Building Roboctic Cat> thread (more than once!) (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) <shrug> Ahh, I guess it's just another day in paradise down under. JOHN (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) I could never support such a banning. People making galahs of themselves is great family entertainment. Why do you think Idol is so popular? Allister (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Are you keeping a mental list of them? I would suggest you take that Thought Leadership, and turn it into actual leadership with a page detailing the Things That Are Too Serious To Joke About, so that newcomers don't make the same mistakes we (...) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Lists of things That Are Too Serious To Joke About ROSCO (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) There seem to be some that think compiling lists (either written or mental) is something to belittle or ridicule. I just don't get that. Seems petty to me to harp on other people for such things. It sure reads like you’re mocking him to me. (...) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Perish the thought. I'm just trying to help. I know in the past I've gotten into trouble for not knowing whether things are too serious to joke about or not. I wouldn't want new members to get the impression that this community is anything but (...) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I seem to have gotten into trouble for being serious about something which others thought was a joke ? (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Maybe we need an accompanying list of Things To Humourous To Be Serious About. I'll start: The Brick Testament Classic Space Forums Shouting SPACE! www.biomechanicalbricks.net JLUG blue axle pins (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) What about... Brothers Of Neptunical Knights Taking Revenge On Neptune ? (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) It is so nice to see such community building here! It reminds me again we all are parts of a Grande Family at the end..:-) Selçuk (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Building Robotic Cats Oh, wait... It was in some place else... Selçuk (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) And a complete list of the words that we are not allowed to say because there is someone somewhere who disapproves of the word. Many an innocent Aussie abroad on Lugnet has fallen foul of that one, speaking as we do in the vulgar vernacular! (...) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) You're asking me about "etc"?! Etc is a popular abbreviation of etcetera, meaning a number of unenumerated things. I used it to avoid the combinatoric explosion that results from all combinations of "fail to get the joke", "take offence", (...) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) My apologies sir - the winkie was supposed to mean that I don't really want you to elaborate on etc. since I am very familiar with it's meaning. :-) I was just trying to be funny. It appears that I have failed and now I probably must resign (...) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Alright, I'll take the bait. Does anyone else appreciate the irony that a thread called "don't feed the trolls" has become a veritable banquet? Aussies are sublime! (Crawls back under bridge to gnaw on that one for awhile.) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Given that the post is in .loc.au I imagine most involved appreciated the irony long before posting. (Chucks another bone) Tim (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Given that the Australian Divorce Courts ruled that bloody isn't a swearword back in the 40s I assume it's OK if we use that in .loc.au. Not sure about outside... whose swear rules do we follow in .general? Tim (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Maybe you should become the first victim of Kerry's proposed ban :D ROSCO (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) I think a bigger problem would be motivating Aussies to actually *read* it. ROSCO (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Thank you, dear lady! Kerry [Explanation: not being a man, I am taking humorous offence at the sexism revealed by the use of the term "sir" by the deliberate and unnecessary sex assumption in my reply] (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Like rain on your wedding day, CH Tim. Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Here I was thinking it was an acronym for "Every Troll Counts" (or something similar, which I dare not post here). Thanks for the clarification, CL Kerry! Cheers Richie (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Building Robotic Cats Oh, wait... This was in some place else, too... Selçuk (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) every teacher corrects eat tiramisu calmly everest tests climbers ever taste cat evil tempts christians (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Sorry ma'am (or should I just call you k?) :emb. blush: Great - now I'm afraid that my ignorance may be surpassed by my lack of humor :-( Is ignorance one of the things we don't want around here?? :b: (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Don't worry. We're all accomplished irony appreciators here in Oz.(1) Allister (1) So are the Munchkins. (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) You named him!! Uh-oh. <goes to check lugnet.people.support> (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) It's not on the list, and besides, it seems pretty common around here to me. Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 22-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Ignorance is essential for the traditional Aussie sport of bullshitting; at least it's essential for one of the players. (URL) enough about trolls. How's everyone coping with the drop bears? They've been particularly bad this season here in (...) (18 years ago, 22-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Oh, wait... I get it, haha. So this is OZ humor :-) (18 years ago, 24-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond wrote: <ker-snip!> (...) Allright!!! Much agreed, those whingeing poms and whiny yanks just don't get our sedate and subtle forms of humour, much like our current score in the ashes (3 for 367 last I checked) Maybe a (...) (18 years ago, 24-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) It's like air, we live on it :) Cheers, Matthew extrodinairre* (18 years ago, 24-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Personally, I only get miffed when people spell "offense" as "offence." What language are you folks speaking down under? Kangaroo? 8^) (...) And I have never, ever, taken office. Dave! (18 years ago, 24-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) But thats how its spelt tim (18 years ago, 25-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Clearly we have to enforce proper Australian language in loc.au and of course in all other newsgroups. Italian in the Italian groups and so forth. It does create a bit of a problem for the theme groups. We'll have to talk like pirates in (...) (18 years ago, 25-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well, almost... your => thouw was => werend hamster => mythical creature from lands yet to be discovered and so on. (18 years ago, 25-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"Manfred Moolhuysen" <moom@NOSPAM-chello.nl> wrote in message news:J9B444.n1u@lugnet.com... (...) Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person! If it's good enough for Monty Python, it's good enough for me! (URL) (18 years ago, 25-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Talk? In .pirates? Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 26-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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