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[Followup-To: set] Yea, verily, on this day, 2 decades ago precisely, in a medium-sized big-city hospital located not 500 metres from where I am now, Mrs Marianne Janssen went through a horrible set of pains. Puff, puff, puff... silence. Wails, and (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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Happy Birthday! Hope you get all the lego you want!! (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Oops! I thought it was, "This set, ### or ####, came out this date in 1979". Hope you have a great birthday, and may no Town Junior cross your path! Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "Geezer" doesn't sound so bad when you consider that 20 years ago today I was playing with some classic space Lego sets: a handful of 442 Space Shuttles, a coupla 462 Rocket Launchers, two 487 Space Cruisers, and a 493 Space Command Center(1) (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Happy Birthday, Jasper! Save some cake for the rest of us! ;) Jeff P.S. Woohoo! Four weeks exactly and I'll be two decades old, too! (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <snip> (...) And rudely, I forgot your "Happy Birthday"! -Tom McD. when replying, Easy-Bake Spamcake oven, new from Kenner (40 watt lightbulb not included) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <3789d8b8.96150132@l...et.com>... (...) Happy birthday!..:-). By the way, where were you? You are one of the biggest mouths at the beginning but I rarely see your posts for a while. Did you receive the package that (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I had a beer while sitting around at the Fraternity House. (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You must be an old(er) fart. Hmm... I would have been goofing off in summer vacation, looking forward to my senior year in H.S. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I was probably happily playing with LEGO! One of my fav sets from that time was 673 Rally Repair Crew: (URL) how juniorized the model looks? Why, the car has no doors, no steering wheel, and the front headlights and grille are simply drawn on a 1x4 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Eeeeuww.. You're right. So, TLG is really going back to its roots then? Btw, on that feathful day in 1979, I was probably building my very first Technic set: 851 (URL) was six years old... Mark "still feelin' six years old when playing with (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That was my first Technic set as well! I don't quite remember when I got it, but I remember that I got it at the same day as my brother got it (and he's two years older than me). Since we got them on the same day, it was probably Christmas. So (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I was doing a lot of bike riding, since we had moved in the spring, and my paper route was two miles away from my house. And wondering what high school was going to be like in the fall. Steve (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes. I turned 40 earlier this year. Note I didn't say it was a LEGAL beer... Michigan raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 when I was 18. So I got free drinks on my birthday twice. (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The BIG 4-0 for the Lairster, Lar-o-rama. Larry P, the King of Larritonia. Gee, Lar, you don't look a day over 39;-) -John (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ya, you look pretty young from over here. I can't see *any* wrinkles. -Tom McD. when replying, 'twas brillig, and the slithy spamcakes did gyre and gimble in the wabe. (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "How far can you pan back?" "How's Cleveland?" ;-) <what movie> (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) IMdB came up short (it doesn't have the *complete text* of every script, only quotes that someone ??? decided were "memorable".) I'm going to guess a space movie of some sort. However IMdB yielded THIS fun quote: Mystico in "Freakazoid!" (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek schreef: (...) Hey...I saw that episode just this week! That was a classical good one. Mark "Freek out!" de Kock (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) wrote: (...) Oh, come on! That's too easy! Take a lesson from me and pick a hard one! :) That's from "Tootsie", with Dustin Hoffman. Jeff - "Mmmm! Creamy spamcake centering!" P.S. I haven't actually seen the movie in years, but that's part of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Tootsie? (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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YES! You (& Jeff) are correct, Sir! (Phil Hartmann doing Ed McMahon;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Been really busy in other fora, but I drop in here once in a while. (...) Yes, I did, and thanks again. Jasper (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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