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Well, yesterday I went to the launch of HMAS Ballarat, the 8th ANZAC frigate launched at the Tenix shipyards. This leaves just 2 more to be launched from the contract for 10, worth around AU$6 billion. The ballarat will now be fitted out & trialed (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Touring Ohio and Pennsylvania
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(...) COOL! Great itinerary. I take it you're skipping RollerSoaker at Hershey Park? Rode Giant Dipper on Thursday nite at SCBB. It was closed for a private party (pre season party for their employees, actually) but one of the security guards, when (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-02, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Just Revenge
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(...) Guys, I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard that it brought tears to my eyes. What a great classic conclusion to this wacky chapter. Onward Upward. Markus (24 years ago, 25-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: It's like deja vu all over again!
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It's like deja vu all over again! If you get deja vu again does it seem like its happened 3 times or 4 times ?? ;) -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado (24 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Real Chosen One?
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(...) I see what you mean but I think you've missed his point. He means that Anakin seemed to be a great pilot right from the start; he was an excellent pilot, not an accomplished one; no experience made him great, he just is. Personally I disagree (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Real Chosen One?
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(...) I may be missing something 'cause I refuse to stand in line more than half hour for any movie (besides star trek ;) ) so I havent seen AOTC yet, but I saw ANH when I was 10 and it looked to me that Darth Vader was a pretty accomplished pilot. (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Real Chosen One?
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(...) No one tries to explain away aparent inconsistencies more than I do but I still have a real problem with the word "accomplished". I mean to say that as a boy Anakin was awesome behind the controls of any kind of vehicle may be correct, but the (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Just Revenge
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(...) You know, the really sad part about this is that the MSRP of the Star Destroyer is $251.05, so obviously the store automatically calculated your credit into the price before you even saw it. James (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Just Revenge
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(...) The flipping of the light switches was *way* out of line, buster. You're a sick man. -John (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Just Revenge
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Pshaw! That's nothing -- I am acquainted with people that would disappear you and your whole family if you slighted them over a single penny! Or is this a Dennis Miller type rant of "what's the reference"? In which case I think the strangest ref was (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Just Revenge
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That was YOU!?!? -Evil Wayne ___...___ "There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." (URL) lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler writes: <Major Snipage of All Things Done in the Name of Revenge> (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Just Revenge
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A few years ago I returned half of a box of Pop-Tarts to the local branch of a major retailer. The finks wouldn't give me my money back, since I had no receipt, and they wouldn't give full credit, since more than half the product was missing. I had (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Real Chosen One?
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"Scott Costello" <scottcos@spamfree.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GwJ1D4.Ezy@lugnet.com... (...) question (...) cow! (...) script. (...) If you watch the film, R2 spends probably less than a minute with Obi Wan on screen.. and I'd imagine one (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Real Chosen One?
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(...) Because, regardless of everything he has said later, Lucas didn't have the episodes all planned when he did the first one!!! Sure, he had thought out Anakin's fall from grace and all that but all he had was a rough outline. I'm sure he didn't (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: First entry in "predict the responses!"
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(...) Bingo! FUT: .off-topic.useless-pastimes ROSCO (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Ender's Game ( was: Re: Dragon magazine comics)
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(...) You might already be aware of this, but I just stumbled across the info while perusing CNN.com: (URL) if it's of any interest to you. Dave! (24 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Real Chosen One?
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R2 is Batman's utility belt in a canister. (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Real Chosen One?
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(...) He's like the droid equivalent of a Swiss army knife! He'd be handy around the house. "Now where'd I put that screwdriver...oh, thanks R2!" - Bob (24 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Real Chosen One?
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You missed one - where R2D2 puts out the fire with his built-in extinguisher... Just how much stuff is crammed into that little droid body, anyway?? JohnG, GMLTC (24 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Real Chosen One?
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That's a great theory. What makes it even greater, is that to all the other characters, R2D2 is "Just a droid", so they don't even realize that he is the Chosen One. He is the silent controller of events. He is there not to bring attention to (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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