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The snipper from heck strikes again... (...) You forgot advanced beer drinking, how to file previous year exams to make them easy to find, why eggs are legal only at breakfast time, why freshman lab students might want to jump their lab instructor, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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Again, selectively snipping for the heck of it. (...) I agree with you, private colleges *should* be able to. But it's a forlorn hope. They provide public accomodations so they're stuck with the same loony regulations as everyone else. Even if they (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I'm just sort of picking tiny snippets to comment on... (...) I know for a fact from personal experience that a high SAT score is not a perfect predictor of college success (at a good college, where good study skills are important). Don't even ask (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not sure I agree with this. At least not the part about bleeding. For example, if there were a Satan, would he bleed? I don't think so. Rush is certainly moronic, though. In a good mood tonight because dubya got trounced in NH. Not that I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Who oversees the rec.toys.LEGO newsgroup?
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Well, we're both right. I think the phrase must be a bit more common on your underside of the world ;-), because of your more pure English heritage. You guys probably use it more, and probably have the right to spell it how you like. I only found (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Scott E. Sanburn" wrote: <snip> (...) I have to totally disagree with you here... We work in groups in school right now, You have to learn the team spirit and how to work in a group in order to be productive in the REAL world.. Companys don't want (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Cheap American shot (Was: NEW Mindstorms set shown (with picture!))
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(...) I'm a parent of children ranging from age 6 to 16, and I happen to really appreciate suggested age ranges. Although all of my kids are well past the age of putting things into their mouth that they could choke on, I've observed that the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Umm, no. In this case it is long bow. It's describing what I'm doing to the bow, that is drawing long on it, or "stretching the truth/argument" to interpret it as a colloquialism. So I'm not drawing a longbow (noun), I'm drawing long (adverb) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) To say that the United States saved anybody's butt in WWII is ridiculous. I am American and have a tremendous amount of pride for the role that the US played in WWII but I wouldn't begin to think that the US saved anyone's butt. I personally (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) _not_ (...) Generally when someone professes to be a conservative they are refering to their belief in conservative values, i.e. God, family, rule of law, and individual freedoms. The term conservative has nothing to do with foresight or (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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