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Re: Thank God for Lugnet
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 4 Dec 1998 03:46:29 GMT
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On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 03:15:36 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
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> Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> wrote:
> > That's what I thought the first three times I saw Jasper say it, too.
> > But now I think it's deliberate.
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> Looked on dejanews. Earliest references I could find come from the very
> beginning of Dejanews ('95), so it's Ancient history. Most early mentions
> are on rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan, although there's also a mention
Which is one of my prime lurked-froups :)
> crossposted to sci.math, alt.stupidity, and rec.org.mensa by Ross Garmil,
> someone employed (1) here at BU (2), who says:
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> "Or am I just being too philosophical for this froup? And why do we call
> it a froup and not a group? I think it was Renes Decartes who first
> said, "a froup is a group, unless it's a froup." And he was a
> mathemetician, even though people laughed at him for having the name
> Rene."
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> So, uh, that doesn't clear it up at all, really.
> (2) which I find amusing in a small-world sense, because he just yesterday
> asked a question to the help queue for one of the machines I administer.
> If Jasper doesn't reveal the mystery, perhaps I'll ask him.
I'll consider me asked. :)
Well, I suppose it's a local phenomenon, and not a
usenet-Regular-Expression. I'll try and keep it to rasfwrj :)
Jasper
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