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(...) Can't help with your study, but I do have one of the new coins. Fairly cool, in the newer modern-Mint-school-of-design way (more flat background surfaces, basically). Basic results from showing it to everyone on my team: it's too much like a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I don't recall that. but I DO recall a rather elaborate points based game (1), posted to some newsgroup or another, that one could play with telemarketers. This: (URL) a rather watered down version with a lot of the best parts missing. I can't (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) When I went out to Portland OR last summer to trade some windshields with Steve Barile (1), we joked about that (especially since we could also talk about the clarity of the parts). (1) the real reason for the trip was to go to a week long (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Was it hear or somewhere else where someone was telling about how someone started telling a telemarketer about their plan for suicide or something and caused quite a commotion? (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) We have a phone line at work that for years was hooked up only to a modem. It is totally unlisted, and there is no legitimate reason for any right-number calls to come in on this line. It is, however, on our phone switch as an extra outgoing (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Frank Filz writes: <snipped phone stuff> (...) For a very long stretch of time (something like a year and a half), our neighbor one block over was getting mail for us, and vice versa. Talking to more of our neighbors, we (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I was trying to decide where to send this thread off to. I figured there was some possibility of some legitimate market theory discussion so that's where I send it, of course there's also possibility for debate and fun things also... (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This he says after no less than **6** examples! Besides, the sites of these infractions can be changed to protect the guilty, all we want are the cites. (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Frank Filz wrote: All because they wanted to (...) We're way off topic now, but let me tell you that my mom was pretty mean to wrong number callers... we used to have a number that was one digit off from the local Dairy Queen, and we'd get people (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Check out a few pictures I took of all the snow! (URL) Frank Filz ---...--- Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please) Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Now while this is true it is not the only case where a combination of rights and or lefts constitute and right or at a minimum getting you to where you are going 1/2 a minute faster in Massachusetts. Lets see... I have seen all of these with (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) and for large mechanical dogs, especially if sheep have been disappearing. -Steven (wondering how we can relate this back to Star Wars :-) (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Of course in Massachusetts, a right followed by a left allows one to make a "left turn on red" (the trick of course is you pull into the gas station on the right, and then make a left onto the street you wanted to turn left onto in the first (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Have you seen the recently-release commercial, in which a political candidate mentions that "I don't like cheese" and is summarily snubbed by *everyone*? Not too often do I laugh out loud at a commercial, but that one's good. -- -Steven (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wrong vid, I think. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) !!! Now *that's* aged cheese. I think I'll pass. ;) (...) Anosmic, are you? best, LFB (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm sure there would be some sort of scandal about the politician taking money from Danish foreign interests... ...a scandal about LEGO sets being built in the White House... ...and then suddenly LEGO branches into the nuclear arms industry... (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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(...) Craftily disguised penguins, too. *grin* -Cheese (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well that certainly sounds like it would be a grand day out. Watch out for unruly washing machines, though. (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Cool! If I ever get vacation time again, I know where I am going! Woo hoo! -Cheese (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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