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  Re: New Web Page
 
(...) It might be pretty to look at, but I think it is a waste. Sure, the coins will "last longer, thus reducing printing costs associated with bills". But who really wants to carry around big, heavy dollar coins? And it will probably be big - size (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
(...) I can actually vouch for that. I was visiting a friend and his wife in MD in 1993 and we went down to DC during that huge rally they had down there. Lots and lots of perfectly normal-looking people. Quite a few wackos, but nowhere near the (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
<374838F6.FDB2A443@uswest.net> <FC7E9M.LGA@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) I'll take your word on that since I have never actually seen (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
(...) when (...) gays (...) Blame that on the media, not the parades. The media chooses the most bizaare people they can find in the parade to put on the news - furthering negative attitudes against gays. Just once I'd like the see the news media (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
(...) Not at all, they are just attempting to make the world aware that homosexauls do exist and that they are not that different than anyone else. They are not asking to be treated differnlty, Excalty they opposite, they have historically been (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
<37477ECE.755D6E19@uswest.net> <3747E4F5.FE5BE1F6@voyager.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Not at all. I am tolerant, that is my point. I just get (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
<37477ECE.755D6E19@uswest.net> <FC67Iw.89r@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) How would I know? Why would I care? (...) None. (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
(...) I've known people who have "experimented" - for them it was definitely a choice. For all of the homosexuals I've personally known, admittedly not many here in the heart of the South, it most certainly has not been a choice. (...) If you're (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
John, I have to confess I'm rather surprised at what I perceive as a lack of tolerance here, and a little disappointed. (...) I'd agree with this. In some cases there is a predisposition toward a behaviour. This is true in many areas of our (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: New Web Page
 
(...) Plus a certain understated recognition value. There's a brief piece on US currency and its legitimacy as a *global* standard of exchange in the New York Times magazine this weekend--worth reading, even if the nationalistic hyperbole gets (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: New Web Page
 
(The Color of Money [isn't that a movie?] stuff snipped) (...) The stylist may simply have been afraid of him. Look at the eyes--they're absolutely psychotic in a way I've never seen on US money. So he's coiffed *and* crazy; this may be part of the (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
(...) As in, fine as long as they don't live on my block? And what stickers are on your car? Flaunting has a purpose, the more public homosexuals are about their homosexuality, the more people realize that homosexuals are everywhere. And that (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
<37442038.5646F4D2@c...souri.edu> <slrn7kc7p4.2kv.cjc@...S.UTK.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) It's not an illness, probably genetic, and, in (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
<37442038.5646F4D2@c...souri.edu> <slrn7kc7p4.2kv.cjc@...S.UTK.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Maybe a little of both and some of neither. Like so many other things about us complex creatures, (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
(...) Mike, that is the best response!!!!!! Thanks for adding a voice of sanity!!!!! (25 years ago, 22-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
(...) Hmmm... maybe it's neither an illness nor a lifestyle choice. Maybe homosexuals are just people, like the rest of us. (25 years ago, 22-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: New Web Page
 
(...) like (...) I'll see what I can do. I'm sure it's on one of my numerous disks lying around my desk. :) Anyways, sorry for not responding earlier, I stopped reading the board and I just now remembered that people may have answered my posts. :) (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: New Web Page
 
(...) The Massachusetts militia were organized by towns. I think under an elected officer. The towns of course were (and still are) governed by open town meeting (total democracy).I don't recall how a leader was chosen when the militia of several (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: New Web Page
 
(...) "The people" - then and now - are whatever people we assume the constatution governs. That has clearly changed. I don't have answers to the fine points (e.g. are illegal aliens part of the people?) but I think that we can comfortably agree (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Jesus is OK (was Re: New Web Page)
 
(...) Tell me about it. I spend all day dodging the inquisitor. Steve (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)


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