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(...) Well, I'm just a lurker as well so maybe I, too, missed some inside joke, but I took it for real, and my offer still stands. JOHN (18 years ago, 12-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: New Custom Molded MODERN Minifig Weapons from BrickArms
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(...) Violence and spaceships always work. Everyone knows that. Legoswami (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Comooonnn, don't troll people like that....:-) Lego is violent, and was violent,too. For ages. All the "classic" castle, pirate, western sets have guns and weapons, in very realistic forms. The two recent awesome a/c sets are artfully crafted (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Hi, Paul, Not speaking for Will, of course, I must say your comments are well-taken. Please understand I am coming from a completely unbiased stance myself, and I won't try to take a stab at the "official" take on this issue. All I know is (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) May I suggest the use of black minifig hands for a Bipod stand?? Somehow, though, the enthusiasm which greets your (admittedly well-crafted) product disturbs me. Must we include violence in our dioramas? Doesn't violence somehow stand in (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: This reminds me of deja vu (was Re: lego from China and Czech Republic)
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(...) That's very true. Whatever else LUGNET has been/can be, its members have never failed to rally in support when one of us has faced crisis or trauma. Some of the best moments that I can recall since first coming here back in 1999 have been the (...) (18 years ago, 31-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yikes! I didn't even think of that. I just assumed that, as usual, all dissent was quelled by my stirring rhetoric and unassailable logic. Dave! (18 years ago, 31-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Ah yes. It would have been rather churlish to continue. Strange that I don't remember that thread since I was reading lugnet quite frequently then and certainly remember the kindness and compassion shown after September 11. Tim (18 years ago, 31-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'm sure that thread would have gone on longer, but if you look at the dates of the posts you can see why it stopped. Maggie C. (18 years ago, 31-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: lego from China and Czech Republic
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(...) That's just the sort of comment I expect to see from a white man. (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) All seriousness aside, your olfactory observation rings partially (WRT me) true. I came online for the first time when I joined LUGNET, and was very disoriented with the concept of discussing ideas, etc with my fingers. Discussions I had in (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I just finished smoking a cigar with a friend, so I am, too. But I empathetically deny that spurilous characterization by Dave! ;-) JOHN (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote: <snip> (...) I just took a power supply that reeked of burnt plastic/wires out out of an HP desktop, so I'm pretty much a stinker right now, too... Dave K (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ahhh... Those good old days of Lugnet!.. Such nice memories... I really miss them... And look what it turned into? (now it might get that long..:-)) Selçuk (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) No way! Our arguments were entirely the civil disagreements between gentlemen and ladies who held as their ideal the very paragon of polite discourse. Besides--John Neal and Dave Koudys were such stinkers back then! Dave! (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) 103 posts... I'd be surprised if this gets that long. LUGNET was so much more volatile in the old days ;) Tim (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) LUGNET veterans will recall that there's (URL) nothing new under the sun.> Dave! (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I was using trolling in the sense of inviting me to respond in an annoyed (and thus reduced) capacity. Having just skimread the wikipedia article I think this is one of a great many uses of the word but probably not the most common (there (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) ??? Fell for what? You'll have to explain to me what I did to be accused of "trolling". All I see are people with honest differences of opinion. Do you believe that it's possible for people to have honest differences of opinion? Marc Nelson (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: lego from China and Czech Republic
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Hi sergant, I served, For two years almost. And you know what? It SUCKS, really. It is the most unreasonable place that I've ever been in my whole life. I'm not complaining about that. I actually accepted and really believe it must be that way. You (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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