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(...) Thanks Larry, for giving this exhaustive description of my lived hobby. I think you caught nearly all facets of me being an hardcore AFOL. (...) They have been named beer waggons by some of the other AFOLs around. I always counted them as wine (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ups... I have to say a 'Sorry, ++Lar!' at this point. Obviously I remembered this wrong. I am quite sure I read about your plusses as a kind of sign for you being an expert. But in fact that might have been someone else joking? (...) 'Lar' (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh, and on my list of reasons, I omitted - egregiously fabricating past history - spreading falsehoods about people's signatures because no such thing ever happened. The "++Lar" started because Todd used to sign his posts "--Todd" and I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I almost shudder to mention this, since the underlying debate is serious and highly charged, but a CNN article about race and affirmative action included a really inopportune misprint, in grand Amos-n-Andy style: "At issue is whether race be used as (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If you are trying to say that Ken is trying to say that the basketball minifigs aren't a good product, please tell him to say so. I, for one, have once had an accident which caused me to end up using crutches and really* do not appreciate your (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's okay, I *did* buy LEGO when those were still on the shelves, yet I passed them up! :-( (URL) only have a couple of the containers because of garage sales. They also had two baseplate lid containers, and both two and three green (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's why the smiley. --BIll. (24 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Bruce, no need to get flipperant and caviar about poor Eric's tail. Eric-- no worries, it was just a fluke. -John (24 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You didn't get what you searched for? Must have been a red herring. Or maybe when you asked for more they didn't understand because they were hard of herring? If I just triggered a fishy-pun-fest, I'm gonna make like a grunion and run... (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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It's that time of year when I post of herring. Ekastor! On my second trip to the supermarket in Wisconsin with my niece to buy last minute items, I picked up a jar of herring. The selection was very poor, I was accused of being some kind of (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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