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(...) I don't have time to go everywhere picking up your satirical remarks! :-) JOHN (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) Hmmmmm.... You refering to Star Wars superfans, or LEGO superfans?? JohnG, GMLTC self-professed "superfan" of LEGO... (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmm... How shall I write this in a family friendly way? Way back in 1983 I read an article (in Rolling Stone, I believe) in which Ms. Fisher lamented that she would move one way but the costume would move another. If memory serves, she was (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Did somebody watch "When STAR WARS ruled the world" this weekend? (1) Carrie Fisher was quoted saying (about that costume) that "if I leaned forward, someone behind me could see all the way to Florida".... ObLEGO tiein: C3P0's actor mentioned (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You know, down here in the States, technology has advanced to the point where we don't have to hand-crank our television sets to make them run. We can just plug them into electrical sockets in the wall. Or some people even use batteries, for (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Okay Dave, I'm going to have to ask you to refrain from this kind of language. There is no acceptable situation to tell someone to go Jackstone themself. In fact, those could be regarded as fighting words, in which case someone may go Harry (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If you're gonna swear, at least spell it right, you Megabloking Megablokholes. Hmm. "MegaBlokhole"... that really does sound evil. And I can't believe the audacity that some websites have. Swearing on a site intended for children. Sheesh: (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, that makes him the cowboy on the left. Giddyup Goldman rides again -- yeee-haaaaaaaa! -nk (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people, FTX)
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(...) I see. So does that make Goldman a (URL) NWGWDAG>? JOHN (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people, FTX)
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(...) No joke on the Photoshop. The real Mark Sandlin is a 5'3" Korean woman - but all known photos of him have this giant leprauchan guy instead. -nk (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people, FTX)
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(...) Seriously, can someone explain to me why pics of the GA's hair color always appear to have been altered in Photoshop? :-) JOHN (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people, FTX)
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(...) That and without a way to edit posts, typos can make it look like you swore. I found a few accidental typos while searching for swears the other day. Things like someone who misspelled "cut" by inserting an extra letter. Also you've got to (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) In practice I wouldn't have a problem with it, because I generally don't resort to profanity and wouldn't therefore have to worry about any word-substitution in my posts. But one dilemma is that it would imply that LUGNET as an entity is (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) The odd part, however, is that it makes it difficult to talk about various clone brands. For instance: "I MegaBloks hate stupid Megabloks" but the best part is, not just curse words are filtered out - certain other terms/words that offend yer (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) It's good to read you're OK with it. When I saw this the other day I thought "Hey! That's a very good idea!" An idea came to me this morning- how about a poll? It would a rating type with a list of clone brands in alphabetical order and (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) As much as I don't care for the implied disparaging of my favorite brand, I have to admit that this is a pretty funny failsafe. Dave! (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, David Eaton wrote: (snipped Lester entirely, and most of what David said) (...) IIRC classic-castle.com has implemented just such a mechanism in their chat, everything profane that the filter substitutes for gets turned into (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) I always figured it'd be funny to replace people's swears automatically on the server. So if someone swore, their text would quickly get turned into something a bit tamer. Something like: s/freaking/buttermilk buscuit/gi s/bullpoop/muffin/gi (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) Has anyone seen my thunder? I know I had it around here somewhere. Huh. :P Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.org.us.clb, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) Shhhh, I'm sorting and booking hotel stays, I might mix up my accomodations. e (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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