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WARNING: Overly analytical and highly anal retentive reply follows. :) (...) I guess my honest and sincere response to that statement would be: Why wouldn't you expect to be taken seriously? If you reread your posting: (URL) much of the message you (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"When in danger, when in doubt: Run in circles, scream and shout!" I read it in a footer of a message somewhere on the net. I just love it! (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Man, I had no idea anyone EVER took what I said seriously. : ) Just so everyone knows, whenever I post ANYTHING on the internet (here, there, anywhere), it's not meant to be taken too seriously. It's just the internet, and I've never met (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 ;) ) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 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 :-/ (...) (22 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 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) But there are so many other cool things in Queenstown, I would also make sure to get a ride in one of the stunt planes! Give me a puke-bag, tape it to my face and give me the ride of my life! Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sounds like Swedish spelling this far :) Fotograf is actually thr Swedish spelling for photografer. Funny story, thanks! Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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DUDE! I totally agree with you on the whole phonetic-spelling-is-better thing. I know that English has the most horrific spelling of any language on the planet, but if people are writing in that language, then they should spell the words right. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) DUDE! Do your lego research! 'LEGO' was originally derived by Ole Kirk Christianson as a contraction of the Danish phrase 'leg godt,' meaning, "play well." However, 'lego' is also latin for 'to put together.' <snip> (...) Actually, lego was (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Like 'LEGO'? ;) Is it misspelled or just invented? Either way, it's not a word that's likely to be recognized by many scholars as being spelled correctly. (...) Actually, there's a very serious reason why companies purposely misspell words (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (URL) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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From Folha de São Paulo: (URL) translation, for your convenience: ****** Firemen of the River capture the jibóias "Bush" and "Saddam" of the France Presse , in the River The firemen of Rio De Janeiro had today announced the capture of the jibóias (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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