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Subject:	Re: I would have been creating models now but the computer is acting weird.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:16:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Trevor Pruden writes: > > <snip> > > > Reposting to .off-topic.debate > > 'm not sure that mass copying all of these over without adding any new text > was all that useful, I think just suggesting that the thread be moved in one > post probably would have sufficed. > > Maybe not though. Metaphysical rumination: If a thread is redirected, but the thread dies before any posts can be "redirected," has the thread actually been redirected? (Is the cat in the box alive or dead? Is that why Schulz picked "Schroeder" and not "Schroedinger?") LFB (In either case, this thread *has* been redirected, even if I do kill it. Not the cat, the thread.)

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		Re: I would have been creating models now but the computer is acting weird.
(...) But you cannot know whether you've killed it until someone opens the box, which I suppose I've just done. So you didn't kill it, but now maybe I will (not the cat, the thread). (And why a cat rather than a dog?? I suppose a dog might upset the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: I would have been creating models now but the computer is acting weird.
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Trevor Pruden writes: <snip> (...) 'm not sure that mass copying all of these over without adding any new text was all that useful, I think just suggesting that the thread be moved in one post probably would have (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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