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(...) I believe a friendship truly dies when people drop their committments of staying in touch. Friendship is a very time intensive relationship. The time spent with a friend allows each one to influence the other and the context of that time (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Daniel Jassim <danieljassim@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GAu62z.Lwr@lugnet.com... (...) Repeat (...) hobby, (...) ;^) Nooo...ooo!!!...!!! But I'll forgive ya!!! ROSCO (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I mean, I'd say they WERE less of a friend and more of anquaintance. Boy, I sounded kinda ghetto on that sentence, too much hollerin' at my homey, M-Dogg. Dan (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There is some truth to this, but if one loses the major connection with a friend, it is often easy for that friendship to drift away. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is still somewhat sad. I for one regret that almost all of the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Doh! I see it now! Okay, Ross, in that case...if I move on from this hobby, I - COULD - CARE - LESS about where these bricks go. Is that cool, buddy? ;^) Dan (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) He's riffing on the "could care less" / "couldn't care less" thing. Repeat after me: "I *could* care less... JUST NOT VERY MUCH LESS!" and he'll go away. :-) Hope that helps. PS, good thought starter post. I agree, there are things in life (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Well this doesn't address the whole "people leaving" part of your post which was it's core but I have some comments to make and this seemed to be a safe place to do so. <snip> (...) I actually think we need to take ourselves much much "less" (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I see what you're saying, dude. I know that the connections people make often vary. If the connection to a friend is based solely on the one activity you share then I say it is a shallow friendship (not saying that the people are low or (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm sorry, Ross, but what does this post mean? What is a phantom logic reverser? Later, Dan (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ahh, yes, and it is! Look at it this way: If someone you've known only from online for years suddenly ups stakes and leaves the hobby -- and you never see or hear from them again online -- it is essentially as if they've died. If they *had* (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Daniel Jassim <danieljassim@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GAtKH5.A99@lugnet.com... (...) lose (...) Aaaaargh!!!!! There it is again!!!!!!! The phantom logic-reverser!!!!! ROSCO (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Greetings everyone! I am starting this post in an effort to foster better understanding of this hobby and help keep things in perspective. Feel free to join in and say your piece. All I ask is that everyone keep an open mind, use kind words and read (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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OK, OK before this gets out of control....yes it was just a joke, and was really more of an inside joke with me and one of my fellow club members, not really meant to be a joke to fool the LUGNET community, even thought I used the newsgroup to carry (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Leaving aside the linear political analysis (see Larry's post here: (URL) and more below), one explanation of this phenomenon is quite interesting. Say there's a scale with 0 as far Left as possible in a system, and 100 as far Right. A Leftist (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "and who's going to be president, Tweedle Dumb or Tweedle Dumber" (Ani Difranco) Since I sit _far_ to the left, I don't much care for either one of the mainstream US parties (not though it really matters, since I am a Canadian, and have no (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Because at that point only he and I were technically "involved," so I didn't feel things were out of control--merely misunderstood. Thus I answered with a bit more explanation, as it was my post to which he was responding. When your post came (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My point exactly. (...) Absolutely. The differences are carefully selected, but this two-party tyranny has blandified elections. On too many issues I couldn't tell Cheney from Lieberman from Dubya from Gore. (...) Again, my point exactly. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Did just that. Bruce (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Sanburn writes: <snip> My peeve with this thread is that some in it perpetuate the "right == Republican" and "left==Democrat" mythos. As you know, I feel the political spectrum is not one dimensional. Not hardly. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Bruce: This comment isn't specifically about you, and I mean nothing personal, but why not take the flame-fests off-line? These grudge-matches that flare up come across as really childish. james (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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