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(...) Have you actually read the whole thing? (URL) freaking enormous! And it uses a lot of big words too. What I'm wondering is, assuming you haven't read the whole act, what makes you trust an interpretation that immediately invokes that meme you (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What about the first?
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(...) Wow, you folks are sensitive. I thought the typo and the bizare link from google were kinda funny. I even added a smiley to go with the winky, but lugnet squashed my attempt to set FUT to .fun. Gotta figure out how to do that. Anyhow, the only (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
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(...) (URL) Here's> a fun little site (no longer current, but archived) that dissects Ms. Coulter's spew. Worth checking out for anyone mistakes Coulter for a legitimate journalist or worthwhile commentator. Dave! (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: What's a freedom fighter?
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(...) C /be/have been/ (...) Too bad we've deviated so far from that in the 200+ years since then. c.f. the Patriot Act for instance. ++Lar (who just got a telemarketing call from the GOP with one of those quasi surveys... after answering a few (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Sadly, our local rhino died just a few days ago. We are RZSS members pretty much because of Kruger; so the zoo was rather empty without him last weekend ;-( His mate, Umfolozi (AKA (URL) "Floozy">), looked pretty sad. Scott A (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: What about the first?
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Can anyone tell me exactly what this is achieving? Is there any sort of aim to these attacks on me? Is this “constructive” Don? Should I just ignore him? Is his behavior acceptable? Is he obsessed by me? Should I be flattered by the attention? (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.terms, FTX)
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| | Re: What's a freedom fighter?
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(...) Then we may be the same. Our FF were very wary of government and set up our Constitution to basically protect the people's freedom from the government they were establishing. Our heritage is colorful, but not for the same reasons as yours;-) (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Ha! No convicts in my line as far as I know (I'm sorry to say), but definitely some displaced Irish, downtrodden English, and the odd Scot. Mind you, that was all a long time ago, and its not like genealogy has been a big interest in my family (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What about the first?
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(...) Which reminds me of (URL) this> (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: What about the first?
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote: **snip** (...) **snip** (URL) On a related note...> 8^) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: What about the first?
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(...) are you an assiduous and malintentioned nitpicker? If not, I wasn't talking to you Scott, apologies if you think I was, but therefore I wasn't insulting you. If you are, then, by your own admission, identifying you as such isn't an insult, (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What about the first?
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(...) I use google, and you're right, I did need to look up the first biggie. Unfortunately the top link from google didn't help much: (URL) of assidious> Or maybe that was sneaky debator's trick for calling someone an insidious @$$ and passing it (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Not Saving Private Ryan.
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The Guardian has today published a number a letters written on and around D-Day by those involved. They are mostly from the UK nationals, but also from some the USA, France & Germany This paragraph stood out as it sums up the popular perception of (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: What about the first?
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(...) You called me a liar. All I'm asking is that you either justify that or apologise. It is that simple; it is a matter of etiquette. This is the last time I intend to ask. (...) Have you read your posts over the last 48 hours? At one point 7 out (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: What's a freedom fighter?
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(...) They love it; most of their grandparents were convicts. ;) Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What's a freedom fighter?
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(...) See? I told you Australians hate freedom. Dave! (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What about the first?
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote: (snip) I explained what happened, I admitted fault, and I apologised for it. If it doesn't fit the format of the apology you want, or doesn't fit the facts as you imagine them to be, tough. Take it or (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | Re: What about the first?
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(...) Is this really the best explanation you can come up with after 15 months? That is not how it (URL) looks>. It looks like you tried to pass someone else's words off as your own (plagiarism) and infringed their IP rights in the process. Read (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: What's a freedom fighter?
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(...) Its an interesting observation about the similarities between Scott and teenagers, and to my mind not nearly so negative as Larry might cheekily imply by ignoring them. Even more telling is the truly American approach of simply filtering out (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Appy polly logies (was Re: What about the first?
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(...) I sent you 3 or 4 already, and that exhausted my stock. Sorry, I'm fresh out now. :-) XFUT .fun because I hope this was in fun... (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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