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(...) Was that a 'slam?' ;) Jeff (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sign me up!!!! :-) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wow, he's graduated from the reacharound to the palm! On the other hand, the reacharound was free. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Time for decaf, Eric. :) ~M (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Additional services include: For $7.00 get the Sandlin Slam! You get Slamed by Sandlin! Be the first to be body slammed by the second tallest AFoL! For $6.50 get the Palmer Palm! You get Palmed by Palmer! Be the second to be palmed! (that day!) For (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Dear friends, this year at Brick Fest PDX, I will be offering a special first come first serve super special offer that I am offering: The Larry Moment - tm Yes, if you pay just 10 cents you too can hug Larry. For an additional 5 cents, you can (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.off-topic.fun) !
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(...) I think it's objectively less funny. The schtick is worn out and tired. (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I think it will be easier for me to prove that 2 is a perfect square... (...) I think that's correct, but I was too busy back-pedalling to mention it. Dave! (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) Please demonstrate that, without any specific reference, it is reasonable to assume ANY OTHER monolith. That is, provide a cite to some other monolith just as, or more deeply, embedded in popular culture. :-) (...) I believe you can do that in (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) There is a Scott Adams that does the Dilbert comic... (URL) comic used to be wildly funny to me, but I'm finding it less funny lately. Must be that my sample size of office environments that match its setting, more or less, has gotten too (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Uh, yeah... DOUG Adams. I think I meant Douglas. Never heard of Scott Adams, I'm afraid. Or was that Morticia Addams? (...) At least until this post! - Chris. (Feeling rather foolish for not remembering the name of one of my favorite sci-fi (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(URL) James Stacey ------ www.minifig.co.uk Lugnet Member #925 I'm a citizen of Legoland travellin' Incommunicado (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Woah, wrong Adams. Wow, this whole discussion belongs on .geek. :) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's an interesting prepositional conundrum. Technically, in both UK and US English, it's "on sale" just to indicate that something is now available from a supplier that was not available at first. But "for sale" seems to be used as (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.basic, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (URL) (you'll need advent.pl and advent.dat, which is unchanged from the original). You'll also probably need an antiquated version of Perl - I wrote that on an old Sun box, running Perl 4 point something. ROSCO (21 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Scott Adams created (or licensed) a set of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text-based adventure games that were not quite as humorous as the books and not quite as good as Zork or Colossal Cave. Mainly because these games had a strict (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I may have missed the boat on Scott Adams, but the only text-ish adventures of his that I ever played were those Marvel Comics "Questprobe" games, which I found, let us say, disappointing. Were there other good ones that I didn't get to play? (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This works especially nicely when there's multiple ways to solve the various problems -- if, instead of carrying water in a jar one can trick the sky king into making it rain, and instead of keeping the barefoot elves out one can give them (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ahh, Colossal Cave - an interesting experiment that actually started off as a map of part of Mammoth Cave. I was playing with text adventure games a few years ago. There are some nice tools out there, including some incredible reverse (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks for the input, guys. I'll keep those tips in mind. I've had only limited experience directly related to TBG's, but I think I can use some of my Starship and CCA experience (URLs, respectively: (URL) especially for that last suggestion, (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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