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(...) As an aside, this letter made it into the Guardian yesterday: ==+== Matthew Engel says (Move over John Wayne, January 14) anti-war demos "still failed to get reported anywhere that matters". After reports in the New York Times failed to do (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm pretty sure it is. (...) How did you find the air in fountain bridge? (...) Yes, just along from the Cale’ Sample Rooms. (...) ;) Diggers is a good bar, but not worth making a huge effort for. More of a curiosity really. Pubs worth looking (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Is this ammunition against Sex Offender Registration?
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Is this ammunition against sex offender registration? (URL) law enforcement step up to protect this man's rights? I'm not saying that some people may not continue to be dangerous. I'm not saying that this individual will continue to be dangerous. We (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) I will agree that *if* the store was not keeping proper records, and losing guns as stated, someone should sue their pants off... But I would expand the suit to include the NRA (buncha gun toting yahoos), the peeps who feel that they have the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | The Commons Lose Big: Eldred v. Ashcroft
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(URL) now everything belongs to huge, multinational corporations -- possibly forever. Too bad Robert Louis Stevenson did not live to see a day when he could have prevented an abomination like Disney's "Treasure Planet." Funny how a corporate entity (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Customer "Service"
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tony Alexander writes: <snip> (...) I like it, well written. I had a very similar incident with a subscription to a magazine "gone bad" in which I wrote a very polite yet "take yer subscription, you misrepresented bonus (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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***long post warning*** Submitted for your amusement: I got a non-Lego ad in the mail, and responded to it, asking the company to "Bill Me Later". Today I got what I considered a snotty letter, my first contact after asking this company to "Bill Me (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It seems I have forgotten the Scottish beer nomenclature... (...) Tee-hee. (...) This rings a bell... I certainly remember the Deuchars IPA. That was one of our favourites, and the number one item to bring home. (Due to tax regulations, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Fredrik, That's fighting talk! North of the border, we don't really drink the "bitter" the southern softies drink [although I did have a pint of Tetley’s last night]. The equivalents are things like 70/- [pronounced 70 Shilling and aka (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hm, I can't recall seeing that one when I visited Edinburgh. But then again, I was more interested in the bitters and lagers during those visits! I did have a chance to taste some variants during a sort of "open day" in the Caledonian brewery. (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In the UK we have "Virgin Cola", but it is more of a money making venture than any sort of statement. Scotland is one of a few places where "Coke" is not the No. 1 selling soft drink. The Scottish No 1 is a bright orange drink called "Irn (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) As alcohol is pretty much forbidden in Islam, I don't expect that product to be a hit... Fredrik (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) symbol combo, I think it strange that no similar product has been launched earlier. It interesting, although I don't expect to see it in my region. Fredrik (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Because those AFOLs don't want to. In .space, people imagine militaristic futures and build warships; the violence of Star Wars (destruction of Alderaan, anyone?) and WWI (WWI is "a long way away from the horrors of modern warfare?" I never (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What about an Osama Bin Lager ? (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ok. You said it was a matter of perspective, not definition, thereby making it your opinion. Hence, you rank the term "troll" as a qualitative value rather than a definitive one. And because of your repeated dislike of Larry, I think you held (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I though this story was very interesting: Mecca Cola challenges US rival (URL) is all about combating "America's imperialism and Zionism by providing a substitute for American goods and increasing the blockade of countries boycotting American goods" (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You are entitled to that view. Do you care to justify it? (...) could (...) expect (...) me (...) the (...) at (...) .now you are being obtuse ;) (...) or (...) paper (...) not (...) Why are you trying so hard not to answer such a simple (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Happy birthday, Minifig!
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Alrigh I know this is a really late response, and there may be little interest, but I wanted to reply anyway. First off sexist is a label that has been ascribed to me in the past, and I don't completely disagree, but I don't think that this post (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I share that opinion... especially as I read it without knowing there was an acknowledgments section at the back of the book. His arguments would have been more convincing if he’d put his references in the text. (...) It only got limited (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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