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(...) Hey! I resemble that comment! JOHN (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) It could be worse-- you could be John Neal and I could have sent you the latest Hillary book! :D (...) No, just read it so we don't have to be subjected to any more LOTR/HP compare and contrast posts. Heck, read it as a study in popular (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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| | Re: The Derotatinator
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(...) All mass has gravity, Gravity is a function of mass. a pinhead floating in space has a gravitational force, but the moons is a lot bigger and could override the pinheads, thus pulling or "Attracting" it towards it. (Though I'm sure flowers and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Note I said "there's no friction", not "there's no gravity". Of course there's gravity in space - otherwise we wouldn't know which way was up! The Capacitor-Relayed Open Charged Kinetics battery system is definitely below the main hull of the (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: The Derotatinator
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(...) Pendulums don't work in the absence of gravity, and they really only work with the largest gravitic pull from their location, whether it be from a single source or closely clustered combined sources. The moon exerts the largest gravitic pull (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: The Derotatinator
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(...) It's like a pendulum, I guess, but in space (which is where the earth is), there's no friction, so it just keeps going - backward and forward ad infinitum. The sea monkey explanation was a good one too, just not the right one. IMO. (...) The (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: The Derotatinator
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(...) Sea Monkeys. (...) Heck, they're even building a MoonBase on it! (...) 2a) The sea has a natural tendency to want to stop moving, agitating untold numbers of Sea Monkey colonies. 2b) The Sea Monkeys, worried that their vast underwater domains (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: The Derotatinator
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Quoting Richie Dulin <rdulin@REMOVEmla.com.au>: (...) *blink* Wow. Ok, It's taken me a long time to figure out just how I want to approach this. 1) the water shifting side to side - how do you think this happens if not from the gravitational pull of (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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| | and now they're taxing cow farts...
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what, you think I'm joking? (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: 2003 Technic sets appear to be released...
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Steven lane's utterance expressed in news:HGp0vt.IE7@lugnet.com: (...) naah.. I am just happy - my education is almost over and LEGO puts out great sets (e.g. 8455) just in time for my holiday :) (...) Dr. Merkwürdigliebe I presume? (great film!) (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Are you by any chance riding a falling atomic bomb? Dr Strangelove (21 years ago, 18-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Fun Playmobil Illustrated Story Site - Just for Klicks!
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Recently I was clued in to the existence of a really entertaining Playmobil fan site (URL) Just for Klicks.> The main attraction on this site is the illustrated story Snowy and the Castle Caulibut Caper. The presentation is comic-book style with (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | Somethingawful.com has a lego pic, just something fun.
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The topic is comercial products going to war. So here we go! (URL) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I'm sorry, but this was just too weird not to share. (URL) care, Soren (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Eastern Block Bot destroys cow, Lego citizens slaphappy with fear.
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(...) (*gasping*) Go on...Fluffy...tell...Mr. Mittens he was right about me...tell him...he was riiiiiighh.....(*expires*). Fin (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) ALRIGHT, that's it! <grabs Vapomatic™ raygun> *FFFFFFZZZ...ZZZART!* <blows smoke off end of raygun and holsters> Take that catboy. (URL) Admiral Giddens <>< (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) How can I be a cat breath smeller? ;) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: What's a Henway? Re: What's a Mynock?
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No no....he wrote Old Man and the See, as well as For Whom the Bell Gongs. ;) (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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(...) I think it's from before that, but it doesn't help. There's a vague rule that monkeys have tails and apes don't, but a lot of macaques have really really short tails that messes that one up. Generally apes hang and swing, so have longer arms (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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Maggie Cambron wrote: <snip> (...) Too late The name "Jolly Roger" is thought to have originated from a nickname for the devil, "Old Roger". However, it is more likely to have gotten its name from the French word for "pretty red", "Jolie Rouge". The (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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