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I read this over lunch: "Now whereabouts on the axis of evil can we be? The country's long-reigning leader thinks the president of the US is contemptible, a sentiment heartily reciprocated. The leader's official spokeswoman directly insulted Bush, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Two Towers (was Re: Fellowship)
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(...) Ou-uch! I was watching Nemesis Saturday, there were two people sitting right next to me discussing Star Trek, and they were wondering if James Doohan was dead. Somehow they asked me... and then we had a great discussion about Star Trek. They (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Dodged a bullet
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I should've known better. Despite the specific warning by a correspondent a few months back, I still had not backed up the clone.dat library. So imagine my horror when I got some sort of weird, unclear Windows XP error resulting in a black screen (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) That's pretty funny, in a tragic sort of way. Not quite as long ago, back in June of 1989, I saw Tim Burton's over-hyped "Batman" with a girl named, delightfully enough, Robin. After we'd taken our seats, but before the film had begun, I went (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: stopping topics vs. dealing with troublemakers and nonconstructive participants
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(...) Indeed, some were troll-ish – the rest were plain trolls. ;) (...) I’m sure you’ll agree that showing and saying are two different things? ;) (...) That is certainly not my understanding. ;) (...) I did what I did in good faith and in plain (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's okay, Dave! I didn't think of Spandex til the weekend myself! (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Road apples - you may wish to eat 'em, but I'll give 'em a pass. (...) You know that tequila with the the disgusting pest in it? (...) Nonsense - there wouldn't be Jedi without Saruman, who was playing Jedi Mind Tricks long before that young (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | While I'm at it...
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Top Ten Embarrassing Facts about Trent Lott 10. Personally owned over 100 slaves between 1853 and 1865 9. Founding member of the Ku Klux Klan 8. During the 1920’s toured briefly with Al Jolsen’s Traveling Minstrel Show 7. Had a torrid fling with (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Sorry to be the one to spill the beans: Top Ten Spoilers for the forthcoming "The Two Towers" 10. If you’re hungry while on the Yellow Brick Road, Ents can be provoked into throwing their apples at you 9. "Wormtongue" earned his name during an (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament parts the Red Sea
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(...) Aw, shucks--and I thought you'd overlooked my post. How, indeed, could I ever forget Spandex? Dave! (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Nemesis
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(...) The Remans ARE mutated Romulans, more or less. They're the brother race to the Romulans. You know, Romulus and Remus, that whole bit...? Maybe I don't get what you're saying. -Stefan- (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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| | bwah ha ha ha ha ha
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(22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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| | Re: Oxford Castles
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Thanks Paul and Dave! Stuff looks great, but is the compatibility of the mini accessories with traditional Lego minis as bad as has been reported previously? What of the cost of the sets? Where/how were these sets obtained? -- Hop-Frog (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Nemesis
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(...) Well... other then the fact the Enterprise-E has 24 decks, not 29/30... it was good. :) It could have lost the whole Shinzon/Picard connection, kept the Remans (Do these look like mutated Romulans to anyone else?) and Romulans, and the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks New Alien Agency
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(...) Thanks for the heads up. Also security fencing, scientific dudes (all the figs in the warriors style of 3d torso customisation, except with more colour detail), and a tricky hangar thingie. (URL) the aliens - I might be missing my guess, but I (...) (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) And Spandex, Dave! How could you forget Spandex!? Maggie (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Oxford Castles
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(...) Paul was kind enough to scan and send me images of these. I've reduced them slightly to fit on my server, but here you go: (...) (URL)DC68000 - Castle - approx. 665 pieces: (URL)ORD65000 - Red Devil - approx. 650 pieces: (URL) Many thanks to (...) (22 years ago, 14-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Sure, but that's circular reasoning at its finest. I've read numerous works of modern Christian apologetics in which atheists are ridiculed for their so-called arrogant refusal to believe in a god, coupled with the further straw-man argument (...) (22 years ago, 14-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Nemesis
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(...) Geeky?!?! Die by my Bat'leth! :^) (...) Agreed. That was an awesome sequence. I especially loved how the ships were firing those volleys out. And they FINALLY acknoweledge the fact that those ships only have so many torpedoes! (...) The (...) (22 years ago, 14-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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| | Nemesis
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I'd like to disregard this movie's many faults and talk about some of it's cooler aspects in regards to .space (.geek included cuz, well, trek=geek) If there is one thing that stuck with me after I left the theater, it was how graceful the Romulan (...) (22 years ago, 14-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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