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and you'll never catch me saying anything different! Not any more! (URL) found that via nosing around on the site after finding THIS link (about writing mistakes, totally unrelated but also good): (URL) via a webcomic! I love the internet! ) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Greenspan's touch only comes in concert with an administration willing to listen to his advice. He's been Chairman of the Fed since the tail end of Reagan. Daddy Bush refused to heed Greenspan's warnings creating the economic recession of (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Perhaps it's the word order that's causing you grief. What if you said, "I call for the ouster of the CEO." No, that's the same, isn't it? Eclectic English and its scrambled semantics! :) Regardless, the definition does seem to be accurate, (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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My understanding is that wind turbines do not pose a problem to “local” birds. However, migrating birds can fall ‘fowl’ (pun intended) of them when visibility is low. Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Am I the only annoyed by the use of the word "ouster". The definition of this word make no sense when compared to other words with the "-er" suffix. To me the only usage of this word should be in referring to "someone in the process of ousting or (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Ed Andrews wrote: (snip) This is off topic for .fun. It is very clearly .debate fodder. FUT has been set there, and your post forceFut as well. ++Lar (don't make me put my admin hat on explicitly please...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, Dave, I don't exactly have the data, but here's an encouraging report, if true: (URL) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hello! (...) The issue is not the F-word itself in my as always more than humble opinion. It is just one syllable composed of three phonemes (the sounds /f/, /A/ and /k/) when you speak it out loud, using four graphemes (the letters 'f', 'u', 'c' (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Here on the Wet Coast of Canada, it's a lot warmer than many parts of the US. It is, however, Wet. There was more water than air above ground level today, I swear. "liquid sunshine", they call it :-) Kevin (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Shows what I know. I thought it meant "Church of the Yellow Horse." Dave! (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm sure my 13 year old son will appreciate that. :-) (...) How do I get a tan with the top down if I'm wearing a coat? (...) Idiomatically, "Check out the babes." If you want Babelfish, "Seek the girls." (...) I've got that here, south to (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But we leave in the profanity, and nudity, that has to count for something???? (...) We sell coats. (...) Can I have a translation please? (...) Apparently no hockey either!! (...) We sell winter boots. (...) Okay, I'm a Canuck and I don't (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'd like to the United States of the Left Coast secede and take our world's fifth largest economy with us so that we won't continue to be tax donors to the Deadbeat States that voted for Dubya. Better dead than "red". ;-) -->Bruce<-- (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) On the plus side: 1. No Dubya. 2. Real health care, rather than health care if Walmart is forced into providing it (which it won't be). Can't be any worse than Kaiser Permanente. 3. No expensive moronic war to save us from non-threats. 4. No (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't think he was planning on making room for you, just your lego! (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Can we have the entirety of the Northeast secede from the Union and be the next Candian province? Think if we had a 2nd civl war, we'd win again? Eh, who am I kidding, we pansies on the Left have nobody lining up to fight :) (...) Well, that (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) HEY!!!! No wandering on-topic in here please! (...) people running out of credit. Better start paying off all those cards now!! But seriously, to me it seems it's just another rotation of the fortunes wheel - sure lots of Americans will go (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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to the debate forum where I usually don't contribute very much. I just read this piece in the online Yahoo edition of the LA Times. To say that I am concerned is putting it mildly. There is probably little that I can do personally, but if the dollar (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What, and deprive future generations the ability to see what a Great Job™ he did??? ROSCO (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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