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(...) Aliens! Well, statistically speaking, that's the best answer anyway... :-P Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nope. Not till you change your name to K001 $1M0n PhReAk R0b1n$0n and brag about hacking the mainframe computers for at least 150 first-world nations and implanting y2k coputer virii into their Web pages... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Don't usually agree with Richard much in the sphere of politics (although he's a good friend and very solid trader) but I have to weigh in on the anti-death-penalty side. I'm agin em because of the error factor, and because I want the criminals (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Richard Dee <richard.dee@virgin.net> wrote in message news:MPG.1231ab1ddc6...net.com... (...) New (...) I know :( I wish we could change that, but it would take one heck of a lot of re-education. But the insult remains the same. I don't think (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why not just buy them on the net from a US discount vendor? (...) And rightly so. Many of us agree with those sentiments. --Chris (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:45:18 GMT, Scott Edward Sanburn uttered the following profundities... (...) UK public perception is very much anti-death penalty, due to mistakes, where the wrong person was hanged, and one particular instance when the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:32:55 GMT, Jesse Long uttered the following profundities... (...) An American using the word "black." I thought that label was banned? The US is not alone in having race problems. The Metropolitan Police (London police) have (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:18:12 GMT, Adam Howard uttered the following profundities... (...) <snip> "Yank" is the common, global reference to Americans. You should here the Strine rhyming slang for Americans, "Septic Tank." :o) (...) <snipped quote of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Apparently the tone of the note was misleading. You say that "killing Nips" is offensive. Do you mean that doing so is offensive, or that using that phrase is? I agree that doing so is in modern context. The phrase on the other hand is an (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<FH531u.BBy@lugnet.com> <37C88E50.5B325C68@eclipse.net> <FH7C2I.GF3@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Well, I and certain other reasonable people seem to agree. Let's just go with that. :-) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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