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(...) I got 50ish pages into 'Children of Dune' and absolutely hated it. I thought that Dune and CoD were written by two completely different people. Then I went and read Foundation all over again and thought that this would make a great (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I liked the miniseries better(1); the length let it cover much much more of the plot. David Lynch (Baz Luhrman, too) tends to make movies that make me think "Wow, that was really cool. Didn't make sense, but it was cool." - and his version of (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm a big Lynch fan, so it was weird for me to see Jeffrey Beaumont riding a big worm. I like a lot of the movie, but I've never been able to get through the books, I'm afraid. (...) Something about William Hurt fills me with such aching (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) mini-series? (...) The Lynch movie captured the atmosphere much, much, much better though it certainly has it's own array of faults. I couldn't finish the miniseries, I hated it so much! Really, the book is too complicated to easily convert to (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) NZ is great. No doubt about it. But QT has become too touristic to my taste. I enjoyed Taupo much more. The view is even better than in QT, Many treks to take and things to do (Sky jumping with the best scenery in the world... highly (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) LOL I always told Tim he looks like Timmy... but in that pic he also looks like a Mr Bean Relative :D Mel (and don't forget, Tim is a fan of Beaker and Dr. Bunsen ;) ) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Trademarks and misspellings... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
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(...) Actually, it has been more or less officially done. When Norway became an independent country, they tried to rid the Norwegian language of the influence from the two former mothercountries, Denmark and Sweden. This resulted in the constructed (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I don't know that I'd call it horrific, but it's certainly in a class of its own. I have found that by trying to understand the etymology (1) of certain words you can actually grow fond of the bizarre ways in which they are spelt... or is it (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) In Portuguese it's a 1st person Present form of "to leave legacy" (as in a will, "I leave... to..."). Try to find LEGO-related websites in Portuguese to see what I'm talking about - about half the sites refer to legal talk over legacies :-/ (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) All true. And good to point out. I guess my point was to illustrate that the LEGO company name is one of those words you won't find in a standard English dictionary... for the reason that it's an obscure or otherwise unique word that could be (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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