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You need to find out if your state has a law with penalties for telemarketers who call you again after you ask to be put on their "do not call" list. Then, diligently keep a log of all telemarketers. Tell each one to put you on that list. You play a (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip> (...) Bah!! There's more important things to worry about, such as: is my neighbor a terrorist? will the price of gas increase tomorrow? will Lego raise the price per set this year or reduce the piece count again? (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: A NEW CASTLE Wishlist
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(...) Aaron: Could you check out my wants page and let me know if there is an MB sword type that you know about that is not listed there? I am pretty sure I have it covered in terms of the element shapes, excluding color considerations. I wasn't (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Do you qualify? Was Re: Globalization, H1-B Visas, other geeky stuff...
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OK, so can catch up or even exceed many high efficiency cars by enhancing your sports car. But what if you made the same modifications to a Geo Metro or other high efficiency vehicle? --Bill. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: A NEW CASTLE Wishlist
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(...) Actually, there is a wider variety from MB. Block Bot Ninja and Dragon has two Katana swords slightly shorter than TLCs sword. The big ugly old Castle set from the early 1990s had what I will call "Crusader" medium length grey swords, the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) By charging *only* $100,000 a minute? Good luck;-) -John (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: A NEW CASTLE Wishlist
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(...) There are two types of MB castle swords. If you go to my parts wanted page, you will find what I am calling "Mega Bloks Sword 1" and "Mega Bloks Sword 2" [note: those are just scans, not properly scaled or sized in relation to one another] -- (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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I prefer the Marquis de Sade technique. Require all telemarketeers be hooked up to an electro-shock machine. Push the star * button on your phone when they call you (always at dinner time). The number of times the telemarketeer has called you (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) [snip] (...) Sweet! But then shouldn't you remove yourself from no-calls-please thing? Actually, it would be kind of cool to hear the legal reasons why this won't really work. Chris (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If this works--sign me up. The next telemarketer is going to get a close rendition of this from me. But is it legal? I mean tow away zones are there 'by law', me saying that the telemarketer's co. is subject to whatever $/min is just me saying (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Like everyone else in the electrically-civilized world, I am plagued by a nightly torrent of telemarketers plying their various wares. We've signed up at a state-run no-calls-please website set up here in Pennsylvania to block calls through some (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: I received a virus email today...
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(...) I get dozens every week -- see (URL). (This last seven-day period was especially bad.) I'm pretty sure it's getting my e-mail address out of the Readme file for IceBreaker, because it often uses subject lines that are clearly snippets from (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I get a few of these a week. All e-mail addresses, including mine, originate from the Super Chief registry page. -Rob. (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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test -- Thanx~ Nicole; "Now with Masters in Psychology Analytical Action!" (URL) Account: drumm-family Geekshelf Account: Drumm-Family Bricklink Store: drumm_family or Drumm's Small Lots (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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(...) I get copies of Klez regularly, not from LEGO people. They're sent in emails with snippets of HTML code as the subject. For example, a subject 'cellpadding' or 'marginheight.' Just checked Norton today and I have 70 copies of Klez (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Groan of the week #21
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(...) Yikes! You missed the most disturbing one for this crowd, Rosco - according to this logic, builders get deconstructed! ;p thanks, James (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | Groan of the week #21
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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians should be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | Re: Google mirror
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(...) tengul!) ROSCO (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) That is to say, "now" since at least 1976, when KC and the Sunshine Band topped the charts (again) with "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty." According to Billboard it stands alone as (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Death of the Old Guard
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True I think the 'old guard' is gone. I was a lurker for past few years. I didn't have a digital camera or the desire to share my creations with the world. It was a hobby or time killer for me, building castles and whatnot. Now I think I have some (...) (22 years ago, 25-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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