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(...) Certainly not marriage! What on earth are you talking about John? Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) What do you propose? JOHN (20 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I had forgotten all about (URL) freedom fries>: “It was a culinary rebuke that echoed around the world, heightening the sense of tension between Washington and Paris in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. But now the US politician who led the (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Frank, give him some credit. It is pretty hard for him to illustrate his well thought political philosophy with a series of focus group derived sound bites. ;) It always amazes me how the American-Right is eager to kill anything (e.g. criminals, (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Quoted from: (URL) so is Bush going to turn into a pacifist? Or does this only apply to medical science and not weapons science? Or does it only apply to the research itself and not the use of the technology developed? Frank (20 years ago, 24-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Are you saying the above section appeared in the above URL? If so, they've edited it since then, as I do not see that section in the full article (at least when loaded in Firefox just a couple of minutes ago). -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmmm. Forget the the; not the the, the the. JOHN (20 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) it's YOUR responsibility to clean up any URLs that, because you switch, look icky. I've left it icky so you can see your crime, the underbars are throwing off the underlining and making it look all wonky. Worse, a plaintext link, by itself, is (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, there goes your argument! ;-) Yeah, invoking He-who-must-not-be-named (and I don't mean Voldemort) was a mistake and Santorum has already admitted it (I heard him say it live this morning on the air), but that still doesn't change the (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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From: (URL) Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record) of Pennsylvania countered, "It's the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942." He said Democratic protests over Republican efforts to ensure confirmation votes would be like the Nazi dictator (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Dateline Grand Rapids, MI... The Bush team must have thought this was a pretty safe photo op for their fearless leader... Calvin College is among the most christian institutions in one of the most solidly conservative/republican areas in the entire (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Doh! Apparently I've lost my bearings once again. How embearassing! Truly a kodiak moment. Dave! (hereby abandoning the grizzly remains of my argument) FUT ot.pun, alas! (20 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I suspect you might be right about that: (from (URL) ) "Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher. " ...so, unless he was WAY ahead of his time, probably not a big 'nethead... (...) I think you're (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You and DaveE have already pegged this correctly; the listed strategies are tailored for "winning the audience" rather than "persuading one's opponent." I'm not very well versed in Schopenhauer, but I have the vague sense that he didn't use (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (URL) The Score:> Gorgeous George Galloway 1 Lickspittle Republican Senator 0 (URL) The truth(?):> "The US was not only aware of Iraqi oil sales which violated UN sanctions and provided the bulk of the illicit money Saddam Hussein obtained (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Ah... #3! Very good! No, seriously, I think elsewhere on the page it is asserted that the entire material is an acknowledgedly poor translation from the original German. (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ROSCO (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Exactly! Which is why I think many of them do get used here! When I read this list I was reminded of your "debate card" of a few years back, and I was doing a little scoring in my head as to who among the regulars here used how many. (1) 1 - (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) To a certain extent, I think I've used: 1, 4, 9, 16, 20, 25, 32, 33 Of course, as regards #1, I'm usually an advocate of testing the extremes of any given theory. Hence, I'll typically show the extremes of my *own* propositions as well, to (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Thirty - Eight Ways to Win an Argument from Schopenhauer's "The Art of Controversy" (URL) via a link from (URL) ... surely one of the most clever URL choices out there! (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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