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| bruce (score: 1.377) |
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| | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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| (...) Driving around with a black woman in my car sure revealed this. Suddenly I started getting stopped for fix-it tickets. My favorite was when they noted a broken light on the far side of the car that they couldn't see when they turned on their (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| bruce (score: 1.377) |
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| bruce (score: 1.377) |
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| | Re: What's a freedom fighter?
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| (...) Ha! No convicts in my line as far as I know (I'm sorry to say), but definitely some displaced Irish, downtrodden English, and the odd Scot. Mind you, that was all a long time ago, and its not like genealogy has been a big interest in my family (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| irish (score: 1.376) |
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| | Re: Not Saving Private Ryan.
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| (...) Unique Selling Point. I understand he ticks all the correct ethnic minority boxes in one swoop. This means there is no need for other minorities to have a token presence in a movie, thus allowing more room for white guys! (...) I knew fine (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| irish (score: 1.375) |
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| | Re: Not Saving Private Ryan.
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| (...) That depends on what relevance one attaches to the characters name alone. (...) I'm happy to admit to not having watched the film enough to know the character's name. I'm happy to admit to not knowing what typical African-American surnames (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| bruce (score: 1.373) |
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| | Re: Quiet in here
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| (...) Yes and no. We can vote for any candidate for any party, but only votes from party members count towards the delegates. Anyone who wants to have their vote for McCain (or Bush) actually mean something had better register as a Republican. Bruce (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| bruce (score: 1.373) |
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| | Re: Quiet in here
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| (...) In California, you remain a member of your party until you re-register. I don't know if it varies from state to state, it probably can, but I don't know if it actually does. California is a winner-take-all state: you win by one vote, you get (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| bruce (score: 1.373) |
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| | Re: Quiet in here
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| (...) and (...) Idunno if they actually went by that name or if that was what everyone called them. It refers to fence-sitting on issues: their "mug" was on one side of the fence, and their "wump" on the other. In any case, I was a registered (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| bruce (score: 1.373) |
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| bruce (score: 1.373) |
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| | Re: Quiet in here
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| (...) the (...) Found this: mugwump from Algonquin 'chief' In US political history, a colloquial name for the reform Republicans who voted in the 1884 presidential election for Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, rather than for the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| bruce (score: 1.373) |
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| bruce (score: 1.373) |
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| | Re: Mormon bashing again
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| (...) See July 98 National Geographic, "Dinosaurs Take Wing". I have seen no report of them being fake in any scientific journal, newspaper, or on-line source. Bruce (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| bruce (score: 1.372) |
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| bruce (score: 1.372) |
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| bruce (score: 1.372) |
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| | Re: Mormon bashing again
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| (...) - (...) to (...) See what I mean? If you mean the proto-birds, that's not true (your source, please). If you mean something else, you'll have to clue me in since I mention no other specific example and neither do you. Bruce (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| bruce (score: 1.372) |
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| | Re: Mormon bashing again
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| (...) believed (...) A valid oservation. You may well be right, but then they were pretty messed up to do what they did. Logical thought doesn't seem to have been their long suit. I do think it indicates that they weren't raised in a religious (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| bruce (score: 1.372) |