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Re: Libertarians are silly, guns should be outlawed, and there is no God
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Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:42:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   I miss the good old days in ot.debate when we discussed real issues, and our opinions had wide-ranging impact well beyond the bounds of LUGNET.

Why, my musings on the virtues of government subsidized medicine led directly to Canada’s implementation of a national healthcare program, and John Neal’s qualms about the Big Bang theory helped to broaden the field of cosmology in new and unforeseen directions. Even Dave Koudys’ ramblings about the impossibility of a circle offered groundbreaking insight in the field of theoretical geometry.

Boy, those were the days!


Dave!

My “good old days of Lugnet” metre was fit to burst (again) but this post has well and truly deflated it. Thanks. Rant averted.

Tim



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  Libertarians are silly, guns should be outlawed, and there is no God
 
I miss the good old days in ot.debate when we discussed real issues, and our opinions had wide-ranging impact well beyond the bounds of LUGNET. Why, my musings on the virtues of government subsidized medicine led directly to Canada's implementation (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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