| | Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?) Dave Schuler
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| | (...) "Troll" is of course common Internet parlance for a person who posts in a manner apparently specifically intended to produce heated and emotional responses. "Straw Man" is a long-standing term for the rhetorical falacy of picking your (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?) Jason J. Railton
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| | | | (...) Right. Thanks. Is that 'common' as in 'used by the common folk?' by the way? No, must stop it. :) (...) I learned something today. Marvellous. Anyway, I just wanted to change the subject as I'm sick of this whole religion/flat earth/new (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?) Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | (...) And they say that understated humour is lost on the Internet...;) (...) I'm not sure what's patriotic or not patriotic about any of that. Partisan, perhaps, and occasionally pedestrian. ;) best Lindsay (Besides, you can just look at the old (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?) Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | (...) The reference is to maritime trolling -- the act of fishing by dropping your baited lines in the water and ignoring them for a few hours while you steer the boat. The idea is to let the fish do most of the work -- biting the hook and tiring (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: You shoulda seen the Spy plane that got away (and other fish stories) Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) Lying on the shore with your hook in the water is the laziest. I've had the most success catching fish by trolling. Fly-fishing is the best fishing, except when the fish bother you by getting caught on your hook. The (2nd) bravest fishing I've (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: You shoulda seen the Spy plane that got away (and other fish stories) Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) Boy, shows how much *you* know about effortless fishing. The laziest method, of course, involves TNT. The shockwave does the work.[1] (...) A well-placed depth charge could have solved that whole problem. (Okay, you might not have ended up (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: You shoulda seen the Spy plane that got away (and other fish stories) Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) What does successfully catching fish have to do with fishing? No, no, too much effort to lob that TNT. Wakes you up, too. Bruce (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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