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| Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FKyLEt.DK8@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) I think his point was that back then there still would have been people who maligned the now-lusted after sets, and in the future the current (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38487BC5.F5CFA25E@v...er.net>... (...) Both. I think the conversations went along the lines of: "I'm sorry Mr. Smith, you know the rules, we're going to have to bust up all your equipment." "I know, well, it was (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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| (...) Who works on a Monday? That's why I'm a grad student. ;) The more...piquing (titillating?) part of Todd's notice is that he mentions the physicality of LUGNET's server. I wonder, if one went to visit, if we could "touch" LUGNET...boy, there's (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) *Gasp!* As a Compartmentalized Dork™, I'm offended! :) I really ought to drive up to Petoskey when I'm in Detroit for the holidays, though...I haven't seen the place in nearly ten years. Hey, Lego's been used to make canal locks before in one (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) As long as it comes back before sunrise (March, I think?), you'll be OK in AK. I've never sniffed Hootchinoo (I quit drinking in '86) but I've heard it's pretty wild stuff, sort of moonshine to the nth degree. As far as that psychosomatic (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Who? The revenooers or the distillers? (speaking of the carolinas, I ALMOST bought a tee shirt today that said: "Barney Fife: the very mention of his name makes criminals quake"... but I'm not too big on tees... or should I say I'm too big FOR (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Did you ever build a LEGO model of the Soo Locks? Drat! There I go, off-topic in off-topic! Steve (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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| (...) Noooooo! How will I survive without my daily dose of Lugnet?? Now I may actually have to do some... *gasp!* work at the office! Oh, Woe is me... ;) Jeff (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) *sniff* you're making me homesick for Alaska and Hootchinoo, the home- fermented fire water that is extremely common in the smaller conclaves. Mmm, I can almost feel it eating the lining of my stomach now... I almost feel like I'm temporarily (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Right. You need licenses (federal, state & possibly local), a bond, a bonded warehouse or area, zoning, etc, etc. The legal hurdles are not small. Then you have to remit the appropriate taxes ON WHAT YOU FERMENT, not just on what you sell. If (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | Re: Line in the Sand
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| (...) If the academics are right, it may have rolled over in 1993/94; so many problems are associated with just when we started counting, not to mention whether it's 2000 or 2001 years! best, LFB (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | Re: Happy December!
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| (...) Also, I think that much of the Midwest would empty out if somehow you couldn't make booze--it's a fine tradition where I grew up, since the winters are so cold you're pretty much restricted to carnality and alcoholism (and, in East Lansing, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) (walking to the edge of the hometown, on the border of Canada, and stepping across the line:) "Ha! I will EAT my liqueured chocolates, and I will BREATHE ON YOUR CHILDREN!" Dang half-Canuck traitors, we be! ;) LFB (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) sell (...) into (...) you (...) I think I should have clarified that private citizens can't sell alcohol unless uncle sam gets his cut.- You have to have some kind of license. Chris (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) As long as you get your licenses and pay your taxes you can sell the alcohol you brew. Down here in North Carolina, we read several times a year about the revenuers busting someone who has a garage still. One year there was even an article (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | Re: Line in the Sand
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| (...) I had originally written "before the end of this millenium", but I thought that sounded too pessimistic. And I didn't want to give anyone an opening for the 2000/2001 diatribe. Steve Personally, I just care when the odometer rolls over. (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I'd have to disagree with this, only because of all the Micro-Brewerys in Wisconsin, they make and sell alcoholic beverages. Maybe you need some type of license to do this.. I'm not sure.. I'd have to ask my brother who is a Master Brewer at a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.fun, James Brown writes: I guess that's the kind (...) hurrah for immoral and corrupting!!! ;> (...) From what I understand- you can make wine and beer as long as you don't sell it- that's a tax thing. I don't think you are (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Wow, crazy. In the last couple years (a budding tradition), Christmas doesn't even start until Costco has packs of rum candies. ;) I guess that's the kind of immoral, corrupting behavior you get when you marry into a Dutch family. <grin, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I find this rant offensive, and I'm going to work very hard to see that you can't continue it! 8^) Dave! (just kidding, of course!) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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