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  Philosophy According to Franklin -- What is a Box?
 
What is a box? Seems like a simple question, so it outh to have a simple answer... Let's start with a basic definition -- a box is a rectangular solid; that is, a three-dimensional object having six sides (or "faces"), each of which is a rectangle. (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: To change the tune...
 
(...) Agreed. (URL) HERE> is another, acknowledging your very concern;-) JOHN (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  May I present...
 
(...) Watch out, purists--another clone-fan is on the scene. One Matthew Aaron Schuler made his debut at 12:34PM ET on Feb 9. Mom, Dad, and son are super-groovy, I'm happy to report. If you're interested, pictures will follow tomorrow, so that all (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people)
 
  Re: To change the tune...
 
(...) I'm not sure which parts of LUGNET you've been reading, but a number of us are passingly familiar with the correct usage of moot. (URL) Here> is part of one of many discussions about that very word (at least, a discussion of one of its (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Americans on the word 'nucular' (was Re: Bush on Nucular Non-proliferation)
 
(...) I don't know that I'd tease him mercilessly about it, but it just seems, well, incongruous (a word I shouldn't be using in chatting with the majority of the American population perhaps ;-). Can it be true that its a relatively small proportion (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Yurpeans [Re: Bush on Nucular Non-proliferation]
 
This one from the past came to mind: (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: To change the tune...
 
(...) I don't know. What was his "kill rate" before the war? How many women & children did he kill in the run up to that war? (...) Rumsfeld: "We know where they are." As an aside, the whole country does not have to be checked; pre-war, SH did not (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: Bush on Nucular Non-proliferation
 
(...) I've heard it said that his choppy speech actually makes him more popular. Yeah, sure he gets teased mercilessly by people with a well-refined vocabulary, but that's a relatively small portion of the US population. The rest are in the same (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: To change the tune...
 
(...) How long do you think it would have taken Hussein & Sons to kill that many if they'd been left in power? Anyways, the US was directly responsible for putting Saddam in charge of Iraq those many years ago. Quite frankly, it worries me that the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Bush on Nucular Non-proliferation
 
Dudes, Heard chunks of his broadcast address on this today (complete with the audio test tones playing over the first ten minutes). There is a summary of it (URL) here>. It would be a lot easier to take him seriously if he could say the word (...) (21 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)


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