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Cinnamon oil works just as well, and is easier to find. It burns quite well - put a drop on your tongue to see ;-) I used to put a drop on my tongue every once in a while. It made my eyes water, and numbed my tongue after a bit. Sorta like the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Cool! I think I just found a second Christmas present for my father! Jeff (26 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmm.. I'd hesitate to do this to friends. "Friends", on the other hand... Jasper (26 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ha! I thought so, brick-chewer! :) (J/K) Scott S. "It depends on what the definition of 'brick chewing' is..." ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn CAD Operator Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Work Page: (URL) Page: (URL) LEGO Page: (URL) to come: Star Wars (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) But that would stop *me* from chewing the bricks. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm sorry, but my answer is no. I'm not sure if I acquired the mpeg through illicit means, and it just wouldn't do to perpetuate a shameful act of possible video piracy. And besides... (...) ...I'm getting a real kick out of this! :-, Cheers, (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) One possible thing. Get a bottle of Chinese hot pepper oil. Rub it on some bricks you don't care about, and leave those around. At one time, I kept my birdseed in a large Rubbermaid bin on the deck. The local squirrel decided to try and get at (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message news:384D6496.2D3AEC...ich.edu... (...) because (...) you (...) of a (...) not (...) love (...) others) for (...) Uralt (...) I know those bottle shaped ones..:-) We have customers in Germany and it is (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I think I may have just struck gold! Check out (URL) where's my credit card!!! Pete Callaway (26 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oooh! Oooh! Could you e-mail it to me? I love Creature Comforts!! Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) platacine (...) Yes, they had a couple of Morph animations. The funniest (and the one requiring the most time on the oxyviva) was the Blib and Blub animation. The "playschool" type woman narrator made it hysterical. I cannot ever remember (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) brandy (...) The govt doesn't REALLY care about much else, do they? Chris (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Presumably, it's tax-related. Jasper (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wow, have you been deprived! I love those shorts! I first saw "The Wrong Trousers in '94(?) with my father at the Biography Movie Theater in DC, during an animation Festival. It was great! After "A Close Shave" came out, we saw that one there, (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Aw, man.. That _sucks_. Not even cherry bon-bons? (...) Well, yeah, but booze _does_ taste yummy ;) When handled properly. Cherry+Kirsch filled candies, rum with your raisin cakes, and single malts pure (and _never_ on the rocks). (...) That (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Jeff Boen wrote: Thank you Jeff, I remember seeing them now. Man, I can tell I am running by caffeine only today! Scott S. (...) ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn CAD Operator Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Work Page: (URL) Page: (URL) LEGO Page: (URL) to (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) By the way, there is a minimum amount that NY retailers must sell these brandy filled chocolates on each purchase. That is, you can't walk into Godiva and get a piece or two. I think you need to purchase a half pound minimim or something like (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) very clever, funny and intelligent claymation shorts (3-30 minute pieces) by nick parks (URL) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes, it is illegal to SELL brandy fill chocolates in most USA states, because the state Liquor Control Commissions in each state are narrow minded. But you can bring them into the USA from Germany. Some states allow them, a few exceptions (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Maybe I am totally clueless (Many leftists are convinced of that), but I have no clue about what these posts have been about. Oh, all knowing Larry P, can you enlighten me? Scott S. Sproaticus wrote: < snipped conversation of wrong trousers? > (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (love wallace and gromit, got the videos for xmas 3 years ago) i believe Dave's company is aptly titled due to his oft utterance "i'm not wearing any pants!" J (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:47:15 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) Ardman Animations recently sold out the rights to an American firm, perhaps there is a connection there? (Though if memory serves correctly, I think it was (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Creature Comforts is great. I haven't been able to get my hands on a "real copy" but one of my local video stores has it for rent. James (URL) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) There ought to be a warning on the box... ;-) (...) Wednesleydale? Well, it's not like any cheese I've ever had before... (...) Yep. Wrong Trousers is so funny on so many levels, it's...well, funny. I'm trying to get my hands on a copy of (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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When I was a kid, they did morph. He was fantastic. Who'd have thought platacine could have a personality! See morph at: (URL) A (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) A few years ago, the whole nation came to a standstill when the showed the the wrong trousers... $17 is amazing value. After the 3rd one, the sales of the cheese they eat (I know the name - I just can not spell it) rocketed in the UK. (...) I (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:FMCrt9.E7F@lugnet.com... (...) ground. (...) window (...) Intended to mean something?..:-) Selçuk (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Robin Werner wrote in message ... (...) But (...) Do (...) piece. (...) It may have come from one of the police stations. They use grey train window frames with those grills for jail cell windows. Frank (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Na, man, two weeks in the same place? moss would grow on my shoes. I'm in Chicago till Wed and then not sure. (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If you think they're funny, you should see some of the other stuff. When I was posted in Darwin I saw a couple of Aardman collections and they were brilliant. Some of them nearly had me on oxygen just to breath normally. I haven't seen any of (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) WOW! So close and yet so far, if I had recognized it was you, I would of tried harder to get to you! O'well maybe next time man! :) Robin W. GFLTC PS Are you still in Florida and if you are, will you still be here in two weeks? (GATS Show in (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Now (...) No, it wasn't real Hornby. If it was, you would probably have had people having screaming hissy fits :) The Hornby O gauge collecters tend to make lego collectors look 'normal'. But, it was funny as heck! (...) Lar, I bought my dad (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That was actual Hornby? I figured it was some mock up stuff. Cool. I don't know which was funnier, the fact that Gromit could lay track so fast, the fact that there were both curved and straight in the same box, the fact that the box didn't (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) And that's before multiplying it by his membership fee (minumum $10).. $1,460,000 I submit that Larry didn't manage to finance his Lego collection by making simple misteaks! Richard (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You actually were the first... so yes, and no. Because while it appears that might have been what I wrote, clearly, it can't actually be, because that would be a misteak. And I don't make those. Ask anyone. So it was that pesky old reality (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Larry, I think the scene with the Hornby O gauge is classic (the train scenes). Now all we need is for someone to do it in lego :) James P (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Well, Cartoon Network ran a Wallace and Gromit Marathon (didn't take long, did it?...) on Sunday. Needless to say, I (and my kids) clearly have been underappreciating this stuff, having never have been lucky enough to actually see it before. We all (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Wrong park. (1) The theme at the park *I* was at was probably "I am what I YAM, and I YAM an AFOL..." since the toonish part is mostly Popeye and DudlyDoRight themed... Either that or "Oh, the AFOLs you will see" since the other kiddie area is (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) you (...) foods (...) For that well-oiled flavour? <shudder> James (URL) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Just pack them inside an automatic firearm, and nobody will ever know. LFB (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmm. I bet there's some legal restrictions about shipping acohol-based foods across state lines. Steve (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Mookie <Mookie1@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message > (...) Thanks for the well written explanation Tamy. I've also received the emailed version..:-) Regards, Selçuk (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I only remember it as a four part trilogy, since this has appeared for several years on the front cover of the first volume. I wouldn't put it past the author to deliberately make another 'joke', by saying a 'trilogy in four parts', and then (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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LOL You had a close encounter with the great Larry! (everybody sing: It's a small world after all...;-) -John (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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GMLTC Members, Last Saturday while visiting Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Florida, I notice a man wearing a GMLTC shirt. I saw him as I was getting onto the Dueling Dragons Coaster (ice side). He was in the line for the front row seats. (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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(...) Small teensey rant here: I think it's probably because we have a long standing tradition in this country of deciding how other people can and cannot get there jollies. Many entertainments and vices of an "adult" nature offend the sensibilties (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It has something to do with the alcohol content in the liqueur. I believe the only US state that those *could* be sold in (legally) is/was Nevada. I know that Ethel M used to make a liqueur chocolate for sale there. Ray (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It is illegal to sell candy in the US that has any sort of alcohol in it. I have never heard a good explanation why other than "kids might eat it and decide that booze is fun or tastes yummy". Which, if you've ever been to florida during (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Selçuk " wrote: <snip> (...) Well I can explain this one somewhat for you, especially since my birthday is Dec 20th.. I still celebrate it, though sometimes I think I should move it to another month.. Some of the main reasons: You don't get a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:3847779B.88F0A8...msu.edu... (...) Thanks,..:-) Actually, I'm not so much a Muslim, although I'm supposed to be so. I educated to be one, but beginning from the teenage times, it started (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks for the reminder that 70% of the world is non-Christian. Sometimes it's easy to forget. ;) Happy Ramadan coming up, Selçuk. best, Lindsay --- Lindsay Frederick Braun (Mr) Department of History Rutgers, the State University of New (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Really? Shoot. I'm gonna have to stop reading Lugnet, then - I barely have enough responsiblility to cover my work and real life commitments, none to spare for my hobbies. Or can I be irresponsible by removing the responsibility requirement (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Now see, if you were really good, you'd use Trinary instead of binary. Although I confess I get a cramp holding my fingers in half up, down or up positions for any length of time. (Glad you never called ME a Pharisee! :-) ) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I feel your pain every December 28th;-) -John (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Nope- I got a double whammy- I was born on Jan 6th, then my brother came along two years later on the 19th. So sometimes presents that were for both christmas and the birthday, sometimes b-day presents that were for both of us, and - slightly (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) So that the celebration of the aniversary of their birthday doesn't get lost in the shuffle surrounding the celebration of the aniversary of the nominal birthday of a certain individual who was born some 2000 years ago. A more pragmatic reason (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message (...) Why?.. Selçuk (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In the company that I work for (a manufacturing company focuses on products from Al/cu pipes for appliances industry), we generally design and produce our own machinery to produce something specific when the production numbers are high. The (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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(...) person (...) Hey now, I use that term quite often, although it is almost always spoken. It is a wonderful insult to people who think they are better than somebody else and have a holier than thou attitude, which makes me sick. Now phlegmatic (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) it (...) Yes, indeed, Pharisee is such a HEAVILY used word, we might save a whole person day a decade! :-) ++Lar (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually I du. eI (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) u mean u's? ;-) -John (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The Brits have it ever worse-- random o's strewn all over in the middle of perfectly ordinary words like color or humor. We New Worlders are quite concise by comparison. Although it is about time for a neo-websterian reform. Can you imagine (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Selçuk <teyyareci> <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote in message news:FLEFop.7DE@lugnet.com... (...) It's just the joys of living with a language that's 40% French, 25% German (or the other way around), and a little of just about everything else. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Quite. It's amazing what a little green grease can lubricate. (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) And a follow-up to your follow-up: How many of our teeth have Lego marks on them? Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) My dad once checked some balloon instrumentation packages which were way over the limit. His secret? Checking them at the curb with a $20 tip to the person collecting bags. (...) One of my caver friends once caused a stir. As he was going (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:38440E66.7D35@m...ing.com... (...) A Yankee visits, a damn Yankee stays ;-) -Rob Doucette. Massachusetts->South Carolina->Pennsylvania (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Mmmmmm, fresh soft sand, (insert Homer Gurgle) :-, Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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This thread is a pedant's dream. Somebody pinch me. (...) not sure what an nbirthday is... I agree that most folks only have one birthday, and ALL folks only have one "actual" birthday. However, there exists a class of people that have more than one (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) we're (...) A good clarification, Frank. I guess by "first one" up above I actually meant the day of your birth, which I guess in common parlance would called your "0th" birthday. I'm feeling feisty today. Chris (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If you really want to have fun with airlines, try taking a sword home with you. :/ We only held one plane up trying to sort it out, and while my Dutch is atrocious, the MP seemed very nice. James (URL) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually we count aniversaries of our birthday. You really only have one nbirthday, and it's not your "first" birthday... (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Duh, I forgot! GMLTC has a jig for module building too. It's so simple, it hardly deserves the name. Basically it's a 2x8 (or 10, I forget which) with a handle to get the column spacing right. Thanks for reminding me. I think it was made for (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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(...) I made a jig to help speed up the building of my modules. It would slide into place around one tower of 2x2 bricks and have a notch for the next tower. It would slip out very easily and had tiles on the bottom to allow it to slide over the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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