 | | Re: COMPLETE LIST OF NEW SETS FOR 2000
|
|
(...) That's what they WANT you to think! ;) Be afraid, be very afra...oh, sorry. Ben Roller (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: .loc.eu (was: Re: UKLUG Prototype online)
|
|
(...) I don't know about you, but when I'm trapped all by myself and bored out of my gourd, I want either to play with my Lego or on the Internet (or on LUGNET, the best of both worlds). They can't even go out to the bar like people who live in (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: .loc.eu (was: Re: UKLUG Prototype online)
|
|
(...) Erm, Umm, how many AFOL's are down there, anyway? I mean, really. And is it really necessary? The population of Antartica is exclusive to about a 1/2 dozen scientists squished into research trailers, so are these groups really necessary? Or (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: new millenium bugs me
|
|
(...) Years weren't counted in a Christian manner until well after the death of Christ, because early Christians fully expected him to return in their lifetimes. The best estimates say that he was probably born around 4 BC. AD doesn't mean "After (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: new millenium bugs me
|
|
(...) years- (...) Ok now I'm real lost here. I was always told that B.C. stood for Before Christ, and A.D. stood for After the Death of Christ. If this is true, then what happened to the 32 years that Christ lived. Are they ever counted. Or were (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: What might have been...
|
|
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)
|
| |
| | Re: Happy December!
|
|
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
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Happy December!
|
|
(...) *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)
|
| |
| | Re: Happy December!
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Happy December!
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Happy December!
|
|
(...) 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
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Happy December!
|
|
(...) *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)
|
| |
| | Re: Happy December!
|
|
(...) 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
|
|
(...) 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!
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Happy December!
|
|
(...) (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)
|
| |
| | Re: Happy December!
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Happy December!
|
|
(...) 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)
|
