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| From the (URL) BBC> The EU asked a bunch of people about which countries posed the biggest threat to "World Peace". The following did not score all that well: Israel 59% US 53% North Korea 53% Iran 53% Iraq 52% Afghanistan 50% Pakistan 48% We live (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | [The Economist] Survey: America
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| The Economist periodically does in depth studies of various topics. In this weeks edition, they have done a series of articles about the United States of America. I found it to be quite interesting reading: (URL) may or may not agree with their (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Rewards for capture of virus writers
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| (URL) not a big MS fan but hey, nifty. Now if they'd just spend a little more on making their stuff a bit less security flawed in the first place... (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: Iraq's alien invaders
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| (...) All your base are belong to us! Dave K (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Iraq's alien invaders
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| It gets better: (URL) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | As they said, something you don't see every day...
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| (URL) something you don't see every day. You always hear about the "by one vote" legends. Well, In Portage County in Ohio, here's an amusing election result. TALLMADGE CITY COUNCIL - WARD 2* ONE TO BE ELECTED ROBERT D. MAGUIRE DEM 1 100.00 DENNIS (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) My friends and I sometimes make up words that fit the happening, like "Hey! Vuja-de!! This has never happened to us before" and we look around all curious and awed-like. It is usually said in an ironic voice 'cause what had, indeed, (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) Hey Larry, Sometimes I'm 'off my game' as well. No worries about this at all--it has been fun :) And the more that happens, it seems, the more fun it becomes! It's a perpetual 'fun-times' thread, filled with romance, mystery, and that little (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: unpalatable truth
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| Oops! (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) Richard, Have you ever headed down I-5 around Bakersfield, where they have a LOT of cattle? On a really hot day, just after the cows have turned over a field? Imagine that stench, 100 times stronger, and less natural smelling. Pig farms will (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) It's like (URL) deja vu all over again>. (proving my point once again:-) JOHN (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek wrote: (snippage) Geezopetes, I forgot to set the FUT to just debate... so now instead of the thread moving, it's duplicated... all of it, even the part where I get agreement that it doesn't belong in .fun (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) Didn't you already post that (URL) Dave! (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) Irony!! Stop it!! You're killing me!!! (...) Ooh! DEATH!! Dave K -who doens't mean to sound like Iain, but after this monstrously bad day, anything like this just cracks me up! (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) Didn't you already post that (URL) Dave! 8^) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new"? Already it has existed for ages which (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) (URL) Chicken Run> made use of that joke, as well. Clever! Dave! (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) My jury's still out on GM foodstuffs, though I agree that the GM-status of a product should be clearly indicated. (...) Maybe not, but it will be exactly as good as the proscuitto you ate before! (...) True enought, but the grains that we had (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) (snip) My all-time favorite Wizard of ID comic: Sir Rodney comes running into the presence of the King and exclaims, "Sire, the peasants are revolting!" Wryly under his breath the King observes: "You can say that again." Classic. JOHN (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Delicious!
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| (...) That's actually far easier said than done. And increasingly more problematic in the U.S. than some other countries apparently (esp. Europe, I admit I have no idea about the food standards in Canada). Random thoughts: I just want to know that (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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