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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote: . (...) I don't know about any nysterious contest, figurative or otherwise, that is being referred to here, but perhaps this will help. (URL) (19 years ago, 10-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Thanks for that. I was including the term 'entry' in my search IIRC. (...) If that's what you meant, then that's what you should have said. Thanks for the feedback though. Perhaps you could provide some constructive criticism of it's (...) (19 years ago, 10-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) (URL) going to win any prizes) 813 hits. (URL) going to win the contest) 57 hits. Note that some (but not all) actually do refer to actual contests though... Something along those lines is what I had in mind. I'll happily admit I didn't type (...) (19 years ago, 10-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Is it? It's certainly not a common one. Googling the phrase yields nothing, but that might just be reflecting my lack of googling skills. Perhaps you could point some uses of that 'turn of phrase' prior to your using it in this thread? Perhaps (...) (19 years ago, 10-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ha! A likely story, especially considering this picture, recently declassified by NASA! (URL) What say you to this? ~Kevoh (19 years ago, 10-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) !
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(...) OK, then i guess: Miss Scarlet commited the crime in the Library with the Candlestick? no WAIT.... ummmm i mean Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the Revolver? Chris (19 years ago, 10-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) LOL Lenny, have you stopped beating children senseless?????? ROSCO (19 years ago, 10-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Let me clear this up then (and I will post a fuller explanation/exposition of my position later): I am not a space nazi. I am not a neo-nazi. I am not any other sort of nazi. And just to avoid any confusion: I am not a french sailor from the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) My bad, I should have said murdered. Soviet murder vs. Nazi murder I don't se as much different. (...) And I disagree - it's raised a nice discussion, for one thing. This isn't obsenity. Offensive to some, sure, but that is what life is all (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You're confusing speech with action. Wearing a swastika= speech. Murdering millions = action. Advocating slavery = speech, enslaving people = action. HUGE difference. (...) Again, a symbol is speech, not an action. And I'm using a few extreme (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I agree with that. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. But that's not the same as saying "it's ok". (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Samuel Morrison wrote: (...) Lenny wrote: (...) I would actually disagree. Sorry to go off on a theological tangent here, but I believe that no human does evil for the sake of evil (does Satan? hmm, still not sure), but rather for the sake of (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Who decides what is appropriate? You? (...) Right, so let's force them all into extermination camps. Not the same issue. (...) If in the course of being a jerk, you earmark a minority group of humans for death, we should restrict it. Should we (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I prefer it when extremist hate groups say really stupid things in public. It shows the rest of society what they really believe. Forcing groups like this undgerground is just ignoring the issue. Jeff (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'm not arguing that Nazism is only hate - but that is based on hate. And yes, it does matter, to me. The people who killed thousands fighting the Nazis do not bear the same responcibility as the those who killed innocents for no reason except (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Nick's point is that there is a difference between "restrict someone's right to act like a jerk" AND "restrict someone's right to act like a jerk anywhere they please. The Supreme Court has held up "free speach zones" - especially on college (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I have to disagree - horrible though it was, there was more to Nazism than just hate... Adn does it really matter WHY millions were killed? I like your EB MOCs, Lenny, and I think that this one may have crossed the line in polite society, but (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) And what is "inappropriate"? Who decides? You? Some would argue it is inappropriate that women are permitted out in public unveiled. Sure, Nazism is a horrible, evil thing, but should we restrict someone's right to act like a jerk if they want (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) The general theory of Nazism is based on hate, whereas the general theory of communism is based on peace. It was one madman (Stalin) who transformed the USSR into a machine that killed 30 million Russians. And again, don't forget that ALL (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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