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(...) Which is the definition that counts. (...) Yes, I suppose. But I do it from a screen that i'm not looking at anyway (I'm doing it right now as I type this... I clicked on an ad and switched away) which makes it only a teeny bit intrusive. (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) s/do you/did you/ Front page, search engine, "my" portal with stock price views and news. Oh, and I read their Reuters feed a lot. Yer typical "male aged 18-59" stuff. The ads were for Playboy and Maxim, FWIW. Porn by my definition. I have (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Why Yahoo is bad (Was: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo)
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(...) Speaking for myself, I find what Yahoo is trying to do a tad offensive. I can't quite pin down exactly what it is about Yahoo, but it has something to do with how much leverage they are getting in the Web publishing market, the aggressiveness (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Yes, I've seen those sets too, it was called "LEGO world family" or something. It had black duplo people, and I think chinese ones, too. --Tobias (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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[lugnet.general trimmed, while this isn't off-topic, it's definitely .debate!] (...) Also, <set:4285 Classic Value Bucket 4285>.[1] The US (North American?) Retail catalog tends to be well-balanced, as far as the models (people, not lego sets!) in (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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FUT lugnet.off-topic.debate, because this has less and less to do with Lego... (...) You know, I hear this said a lot, but just to play decil's advocate, it could easily be argued that small children also haven't learned that electrical sockets are (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Secret Agent Theme for 2001? (was: Re: New S@H Catalog)
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(...) that's not .off-topic. ;) In any case, it would be doubly effective against dinosaurs, because they do have brains the size of peas. best Lindsay.nl (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Two points I need to make for others reading this. I don't agree with the tone of Scott's message, just the general concept that things have gotten better on the racism front. Hardly perfect, but much better. The second is the irony of my (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh. Those Dino Island folks are pretty sharp, aren't they? (URL) Mark's Lego Creations (URL) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) While the following is almost absolutely useless, it's sort of amusing... Many years ago, we were playing with MS Flight Simulator, and were playing the WWI battle game. Someone decided to see how high they could fly the plane before running (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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