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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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 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? (26 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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 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. (26 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 (...) (26 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 (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Space Shuttle #1682
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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 (...) (26 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) (26 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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wrong vid, I think. (...) (26 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 (26 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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(...) Well, Lanark County in Ontario was where the _biggest_ cheese was made (at least, for something like 50 years) So, you could go there...home of the "lanark County Special Hammer", with a price tag of...pick up that dumb rock you! James (who (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (bumper sticker wisdom) If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat? James (URL) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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May I recommend the Tillamook County Creamery Association's dairy at Tillamook, Oregon? The tour is free, and they'll let you watch them make cheese ALL DAY!!!!! On formal occasions, I only answer to my formal title "The Cheese"; of and in the third (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) S'no problem here. What I find offensive is the callous way he snubbed us cheese lovers. Cheeses have rights too! Which reminds me, I'm planning my next vacation...Cheese! We'll go somewhere where there's cheese! Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I can see it now... all of the S@H operators will get used to AFOLs calling and saying, "Come on, man... I know my VISA is maxed out, but you know I'm good for a bag of red slopes... I GOTTA HAVE THOSE BRICKS!! GIVE ME THE BRICKS!... I'm sorry I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) *grin* My married friends invite me over, and ask "Do you like kids?" I love to say, "Oh, I love kids! Roasted, with a nice cream sauce." -Cheese (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey Guys! There is a cave near here that has a 250 foot entrance pit if you want to shock test the phones < grin> John (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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< cross posted to off-topic-debate and off-topic-fun, Lord knows where else it should be, maybe off-topic.scott.rant.evil or something? > Gary, (...) I would hope not! I don't like supporting communists, that's for sure! If it is, boy oh boy, I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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(...) we're taking the Boy Scout troop to what they call "cave slimey" next month; the boys who went last time are saying "bring throw-away clothes." sounds like just the ticket! -Steven (URL) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I didn't actually notice that. I am so used to paying with plastic (need to get all the miles I can get, I have a wedding I need to go to) that I am oblivious to cash. That's actually kind of weird (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That remindes me of a story, which, since I am on hold at eTrade, I will bore you with. Herewith follows my tale. As many of you know, I carry a Nextel cell phone (1). Nextel markets to a number of segments... what hooked me was the no roaming (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm just waiting for work to give me a pager on a weekend I go caving... I'd have to pick the muddiest cave possible and see of the pager even survives... (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <vast and indiscriminate snippage> Can't help you much with your study, but when the same thing happened in Canada (new $1.00 coin), there wasn't the fooforah you seem to be expecting. The only fooforah that occured was the government's vast (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Phil says more winter, the General says spring's just around the corner. Is this fun foolishness just a US thing, or do our friends in other countries have any idea what we're talking about? -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Hi, all. If you've been combing Wal-Marts, you probably know by now that the US Gummint has chosen them as a conduit for dispersing the new gold(ish) dollar coin into the US market. These first became available on Saturday or Sunday, and they're (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You need a time machine. It was removed for space reasons and never restored. I spose I could put it back, but my ego's bad enough as it is... the last thing you want is to have me posting pictures of myself with good looking women. (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Really Good Fruit For Sale (terribly off topic)
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(...) Hey Tim your right, that is quite off topic.. fruity if you want to go that far. I would contribute, but: 1 I'm tight on $$ as it is (funny how I bought all of ozzy's cds today?) 2 plus you cant ship to CA, and my box is a "p.o" 3 I hate (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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Well, I don't exactly know where to put this - its not exactly 'fun' but its off-topic so... I'm selling some Oranges and Grapefruits to defray the cost of my senior end-of-year trip to Colorado in June. Its possible to have them shipped to the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: The radius of a D&D fireball (Was: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds")
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(...) Must have been the first edition DMs Guide. I'm pretty sure the 2nd Edition guide told you to expand the fireball to the full 33000 cubic feet. Regards, Steve Hodge (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) LOL I got into the most heated (pun intended) argument with a DM once because someone lit a fireball in a long and skinny hallway; the people past the "radius" of the fireball were still damaged. Unfortunately, I was arguing for what the DM (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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