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  General Box #4 - I gave it to someone at the meeting
 
David, did you end up with that box?? It should be sent on when you are done - let me know how much it costs you and I'll pay for it at the June meeting. Paul Sinasohn bearitone@my-deja.com (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
 
  Re: Buildings, etc. for BAYLTC NMRA Layout
 
In lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, Mike Poindexter writes: I snipped it all for brevity, I brought my tunnel on sunday and believe it is too small for the NMRA display at this time. I can work on expanding it if you think it is worthwhile. One of our other (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
 
  Re: Buildings, etc. for BAYLTC NMRA Layout
 
I can't absolutely promise, but I think that a carousel would fit nicely in a 32x32 plot..... I'll do my best.... And I want to thank everyone involved in the train meeting for allowing the break that let me get to my concert on time... The audience (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
 
  Public Thank You
 
I wish to make a big thanks to those in BayLUG who helped me out on this last 3033 sale at Toy's R Us. Thanks to Tom Stangl, Eric McCarthy, Paul Sinasohn and Fred Yorkel, I was able to get an additional 92 more of the tubs, which will eventually (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
 
  BayLTC = Bay Area LEGO Train Club
 
Mik wrote; (...) Well, *technically*, the acronym would be the BALTC...but the Bay Area LINUX Users Group was around first, so we became BayLUG (pronounced: BAY-lug), and so the founding members of the new train club voted at the recent LEGO fest to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
 
  Re: sorry
 
(...) Nope, not a stir at all. This is place where we discuss all kinds of stuff, sometimes ad nauseum, or even at great length :) There's a lot of people here, so potentially you can get a lot of responses. -Tom McD. (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
 
  sorry
 
sorry to make such a stir but i was just checking to what the BAYLTC acronym stood for -mik (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
 
  Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
 
(...) I used to think Merriam Webster was "one smart woman". Now, I know that she employs others to do most of her thinking for her ;-) Wellllllll, okay. As long as it's a friendly nit pick :) I defer to superior wisdom and sit corrected. Of course (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
 
(...) Don't forget Pokemon (PO_c_KE_t MON_ster) :) <ducks> seriously, though... lots of things that we encounter every day are acronyms, even if their original meaning has been forgotten by most people... two examples I can think of off the top of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
 
(...) Just a friendly nit to pick... :) Acronyms don't actually have to be words which come from only single letters (such as scuba = _s_elf _c_ontained _u_nderwater _b_reating _a_pparatus), but can actually pull multiple letters from words. An (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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