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    Re: who was the 1st non-north american to possess mindstorms??? —Joshua Delahunty
   (...) "Chick Flick" is the more common term, AFAIK. Though I've never liked the term "flick" to refer to films (it really cheapens them in my mind), here it's warranted because the rhyme fits in well with the entire term. _Willow_ was a chick flick (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: who was the 1st non-north american to possess mindstorms??? —Sarah Heacock
     (...) You *can* cheapen films? I had never thought of them as worth anything more than mind-fluff in the first place, for the most part... Sarah sarah@eskimo.com (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
    
         Re: who was the 1st non-north american to possess mindstorms??? —Joshua Delahunty
     (...) I guess you're not going to the right films then. You only catch flicks? :-P There was a friend I had that I shared a house with when I first began college. After almost every film we saw together (most of them on video, where "flick" applies (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
    
         Re: who was the 1st non-north american to possess mindstorms??? —Sarah Heacock
     (...) I did say for the most part. From what I hear, I would consider Saving Private Ryan one of the few that are NOT "cheap" I have not seen it yet. However, it is more the exception that, because we notice it, proves how cheap most films are, than (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: who was the 1st non-north american to possess mindstorms??? —Matthew Miller
   (...) Nah, see. There's different classes of motion-pictures: Film (artsy stuff: Trois couleurs: Bleu, Der Himmel über Berlin. Usually used in the phrase "foreign film", if you're in the US. Sometimes applies to Star Wars.) Movie (y'know, whatever.) (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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