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| (...) How official is this? I know some people pronounce historic with a soft or almost non-existent h making "an" the appropriate article. However, I pronounce history with a hard h, making the appropriate article "a" (or at least it sounds awkward (...)   (23 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: I will NOT be putting a link to this comic in off-topic.fun's header 
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| (...) XFUT o-t.fun I think my current top 5 are Megatokyo (by a wide margin, it's just sooooo good) Sinfest Sluggy Freelance Real Life Penny Arcade (those guys are huge... they can make a game move up in ratings signficantly!) with Mac Hall (would (...)   (23 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: Curatorship 
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| (...) I find fark.com pretty hilarious, but I am not sure it's quite PG-13... :-)    (23 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: Curatorship 
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| (...) Ha ha, I think it's funny already ;-) Jeroen PS try fark.com    (23 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: Prolific Upcoming Weekend! 
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| (...) *an* historic... <GDR> :^D -Tim This has been another random attack of the Grammar Police. Please resume your normal activities. Nothing more to see here.    (23 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | For everyone who forwards email...or receives too much forwarded email 
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| (URL) heard what the little guy said... -Tim    (23 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek) 
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|  |  | Curatorship 
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| I've taken on curatorship of .geek and .fun Send me your (geeky/funny respectively) suggestions for resources I should add.... thanks!    (23 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: The Brick Testament parts the Red Sea 
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| (...) Auch! :'( Any exceptions? Pedro    (23 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: The Brick Testament parts the Red Sea 
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| (...) That's right! Have you ever heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons! -John    (23 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: predigested pap (was Re: Star Destroyer 
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| (...) I don't know how I wandered onto this string, but I think everyone missed the point: there was a punchline to a joke in there that started this all that everyone missed and thus the point was lost. The Lone Ranger and his faithful companion, (...)   (23 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: predigested pap (was Re: Star Destroyer 
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| (...) No, those just make it worse. (...) I think it's a made up word created for the Lone Ranger show. I believe in the story line it is the word for "friend" in Tonto's native language (which is presumably some generic native American language, (...)   (23 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: predigested pap (was Re: Star Destroyer 
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| (...) Referring to "Indian" as a single language makes about as much sense as referring to "European" as a single language. Less, even. --Bill.    (23 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: How to get free shipping from S@H without spending $99 
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| (...) That's the right kind of container, but I don't think that's the right set for what I have. Mine had just basic bricks in it, including a bunch of the yellow ones with eyes and smiles on them. I think that's where my red and yellow striped 33 (...)   (23 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Fun with Bush 
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| Check these out for a grin: (URL) William R Ward bill@wards.net (URL) Consistency is not really a human trait. --Maude (from the film "Harold & Maude")    (23 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: 12 Volt train motors and DCC 
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| (...) Recently my wife and I visited the Pittsburgh Zoo, and I saw what I thought was a melting camel. Turns out it was just a Dali llama. Dave!    (23 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: 12 Volt train motors and DCC 
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| (...) Well, some hollow minifig heads have an *image* of a brain, but they're otherwise quite transparent.... Maggie C. (who still has Dali-esque nightmares of melting LEGO after seeing the pictures of... of the *experiments*)    (23 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: 12 Volt train motors and DCC 
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| (...) Yup - absolutely correct. But Minifigs get much weaker brains after a bath in acetone than in wine. Anyway: this one obviously never had any brain to become weak, since he has been a professional soccer player. I never heared anything about (...)   (23 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: 12 Volt train motors and DCC 
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| (...) volunteer... right? (perhaps after a visit to the wine car???)    (23 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: 12 Volt train motors and DCC 
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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 (...)   (23 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: 12 Volt train motors and DCC 
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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' (...)   (23 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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