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They're all wrong. The one true term is STF - scientifiction. Ask Hugo. You cannot be a trufan without STF. (Personally, I think Thomas Disch got the last word on this debate.) You can be skiffie fans if you like that. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) And the world has changed. I understand some people now consider SF an abbreviation for Speculative Fiction, not Science Fiction. Frank (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually the three examples of the plural form given in my OED are all "cabooses". However, recalling the other times this subject has come up here, and considering the identities of those who use the less common form, I have concluded that (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) [...] The correct plural is "cabeese". :-) --Bill. (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh, I like that image! I see what you mean; looks like print from a Greek or Hebrew Bible. Perhaps I should add a "<><" after my name as well.... (...) "too" Apple? Can *anything* be "too Apple"? The world needs *more* Apple:-) (...) Well, I (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I've used that on and off for some time now. I guess I've been more religious in using it of late. Actually, I'd like the Dave! better if it could be italicized - a Tolkienian word of power! Githoniel A Elbereth! JOHN. Hmmm (walking about it (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: NELUG at First annual Sleigh Bell Festival / Festival of Trees in Boston MA
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We're a very progressive group...even more for a group located in the heart of the bible belt :) (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) c /vice/vise/ or else I will have to wonder what sort of stuff NGLTC actually does at their meetings! building vices and then running bricks through a B&D drill ??? Yikes. XFUT o-t.fun... (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oooh, now JOHN has one, too! Rats, all the good ones are taken! Here I am, still the same, Dave K. (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ya, I had to admit I snickered after I read that. All kidding aside though, having it ask you over and over who you are is symptomatic of a need to go through setup again and have it save the cookie with the identifying information on your (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: I'm goin to report ldraw to animal defense department LOL
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(...) Iris eye didn't have to ear any more lip from a cheeky, low-brow nose-it-all like you! -John (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Your horsing around makes me laugh! Hee Hee Hee! Dave K (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Prolific Upcoming Weekend!
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(...) I'd say that's 'cause (there's bad grammar right there for ya!) for you and me and average Joe, LASER is just a word now, is no longer an acronym, so we just say 'laser', much like SNAFU is not spelled out--it's 'a snafu'. However, we do say (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Prolific Upcoming Weekend!
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(...) However, happenstance hopes he would see how hard it would be, that historic with an hard h is hardly 'old hat'. I mean, get a cockney accent on going and it's " 'istoric"--no h to be found at all. Dave K (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ahem-- that's "an hard h." Dave! (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I find fark.com pretty hilarious, but I am not sure it's quite PG-13... :-) (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ha ha, I think it's funny already ;-) Jeroen PS try fark.com (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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. (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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