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Subject: 
Re: LEGO Made in China & Charges of Racism
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Sat, 8 Sep 2001 05:51:45 GMT
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   Ooops!  Bad nettiquette, but I mixed my idioms and my verbiage!

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun screws up:

  Yeah.  That's why once I've made a charge, if it's contested, I'll
  continue on (or apologize if I may have been wrong).  Throwing

   Ack, I just reread this and it sounds really bad.  I should
   have said "sustain my argument" and not "continue on" (which
   was meant to apply to the point of contention, not to leaving
   the .debate with a parthian shot or R-skunk dropped in the
   room).

   Ooops!

   sheepishly

   LFB



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  Re: LEGO Made in China & Charges of Racism
 
Hey David, (...) Yeah. That's why once I've made a charge, if it's contested, I'll continue on (or apologize if I may have been wrong). Throwing things around flippantly like that will eventually destroy their meaning. I blame television. :) (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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