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I spotted the following story in yesterday's AFP news wire feed, hopefully it'll be of interest to someone out there? (Note that I've reworded things to avoid copyright infringement.) According to the newspaper Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui, Lego is (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO in Spain and Portugal/LEGO en Espana/LEGO em Portugal
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Hello! I will be traveling to Spain this spring. I am familiar with Southern Spain, though this time around I will be going to Northern Spain as well as Portugal. Other than El Corte Ingles and this small little toy shop in downtown Madrid that I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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| | My website to be in the next Technic Magazine?
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Hello all I am very happy as i have spoke to a friend at Lego UK (Wrexham), They said that they are going to include my website www.technic-uk.co.uk in the next issue of the UK Technic Club magazine. This is a move that i remonnmed to them to get (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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| | Re: EuroFest Currency?
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(...) Post some signs with various exchange rates on them as reminders. Make the dollar readable from afar, and the rest can be smaller. Jasper (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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| | Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!)
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(...) [this was about the loc groups and unreadable things] (...) By the way, I did notice a babelfish option where you type in a URL, and it provides a translation. Witrh a bit of naughty reverse-engineering by me, the following URL will result in (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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In article <Fn18nI.81s@lugnet.com>, mario.ferrari@edis.it says... (...) Spanish is taught in some schools as the easier option for the educationally challenged :-) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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In article <38b85aeb.436875145@...gnet.com>, jasper@janssen.dynip.com says... (...) That's what I meant in a way - you would really have to standardize in the local currency of the location. (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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In article <38b45681.435745144@...gnet.com>, jasper@janssen.dynip.com says... (...) I thought that might be a problem but I asked anyway. (...) Maybe difficult when trying to read whole threads but it'll do for now. (...) More reasons not to (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Two points for a European Legofest
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Ian Bishop <ian@goodlife.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:TBHRscA2fTX4Ewy...n.co.uk... (...) UK would be more appropriate I think, since it would give a chance to visit Legoland, which would be a very nice experience at all. Selçuk (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) software (...) I agree. Look at this experiment (babelfish): Your original sentence: "I'd rather not.. Translation software is kind of icky in general, and copyright issues I think would make automated translation a rather expensive (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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| | Re: EuroFest Currency?
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(...) If you're going to hold it in the UK, standardize on pounds. I don't think if you come to a country you can assume they'll accept your currency. Setting up shop near a Bank, Change-booth, or ATM may be a good idea, though ;) Jasper (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) I'd rather not.. Translation software is kind of icky in general, and copyright issues I think would make automated translation a rather expensive proposition. At most a URL to babelfish or something like that. (...) Ah, but the French have (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Two points for a European Legofest
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(...) Speaking of which, I'm going to be (mostly) offline till the 6th of January - my girlfriend is coming over from Toronto and won't tolerate too much geekage :) So please feel free as usual to email me if you'd like to be added etc, but bear in (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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| | Re: EuroFest Currency?
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(...) Although it was an unintentional pun it still reminds me of a good point. Many of the buy-sell-trades at a LEGOFest involve a bit of cash changing hands - what currency could you do that in considering Euros don't exist in the UK and only (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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| | Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!)
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(...) Maybe we should try to persuade Todd to integrate some translation software into this newsgroup. I've added lugnet.admin.general (...) Unfortunately I can only do English, the French of an 8 year old and very limited German, probably aged 3. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Two points for a European Legofest
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From a UK perspective, Paris must be one of the best options - easily accessible by various means from the south of England where many AFOL's live, but also from the central belt of Scotland via the Ryanair flights from Prestwick (between 29 and 60 (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) Hi Ardjan, Your are good points. And these are the reasons for Richard is keeping a list of the possible attendees. When we'll have some more info about the number and location of the coming AFOLs, we'll be in a better position to decide where (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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| | Two points for a European Legofest
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Hi! I was thinking about the european Legofest. I think there are two things to check first: - Where are the european lugnet-active AFOLers living? How many do want to come? - Where is the geografical center (counted by travel-cost) of this group of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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| | Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!)
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Op een zekere dag, te weten Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:47:44 GMT, klom "Nephilim" <jthompson@esker.com> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) Right, there are a lot of languages in Europe, and just a small part of Europe has english as national (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) (URL) usually quite good, although it came up with this (Marco): "From the great societies us puo' not to expect better null. Not six successful one to knowing if them they have rispediti to the society mother or if they have destroyed them?" (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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