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(...) oh goodie. my wife thinks it's terrible, but it's sooo much fun Hello, is Mr. Vore there? Uh, hang on. (calling out to the household) Mr Vore! Mr Vore? Hang on, I'll get 'im. Yo, Mr Vore? Oh, ok. Jes' another min, he's comin. (wait at least 30 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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the product? of course... cheese. produced by the cheese marketing group (who's exact name I can't recall, but it's the "real power of cheese" people). -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) Wilkins" <mwilkins@nospam.nai.com> wrote in message (...) (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You're in a rather straggly second place, but yes. There's always room to improve, though, some day you may well displace me. (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If you hum a few bars, maybe.. Seriously, I can't even whistle 300 baud. Although I had a roomie that could whistle 120. Remember 120 baud??? TI "portable" TTY's with thermal paper printers?? (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes but... I don't want a pass. A pass is a fixed time all you can eat thing. My schedule is too irregular to make a pass a good idea for me. (well, maybe a LIFETIME pass??) What I want is a stored value mechanism that's lighter to carry than (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Of course the T does use cards for monthly passes. It is also possible to get a "visitor's" pass which is for a shorter timeframe (may just be a week, not sure what the options are). When our church youth group visited Boston last year (our (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I've got some minifig body parts and accessories for sale, but it's going to cost you an arm and a leg... (sorry, when I saw the above description I just couldn't resist) follow-ups to lugnet.off-topic.fun (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmmm. I wonder if people think *I* am pompous and love to hear myself talk.....;^D -John (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Matthew Wilkins writes: <Much snippage> (...) LOL! Ok, folks, 'fess up. How many of you can whistle 24? James (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) their (...) One of my hobbies is toying with people who mistakenly call my number. (Oddly enough, after several years my phone only rarely is rung by telemarketers!) Some of the best I've found are: -pick up a conversation with the person in (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) My favorite one has to be 'Tell me if this sounds like a phone hanging up.' *click* And another one I like is: Them: 'Is this David Courtney' (which when I answer, it isn't) Me: 'As far as you're concerned, this is. No, we're not interested.' (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Maybe. Coins leave your hands smelling funny, though, unless they are not made of base metal. Why they're made of base metal and whether they should be, I will put a pin in, as that's a topic for .debate, not .fun... However, I'll stack my CTA (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) well on my "Behold the power of cheese" reel. *grin* -Cheese (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Nope. IT NEVER GOES UP THE CHAIN. The poor telemarketer is working for some schlock company hired to do the actual calls, not the company they say they're calling for. Furthermore, the phone number list is given to (rather than collected by) (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) My stock phrase is "I'm sorry, I don't respond to telephone solicitation." Just on the off chance that it percolates up the chain... James (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wow, you're nice. As soon as I can detect a telemarketer, I say, "No thanks," and it's doubtful they even hear me say the end of the word "thanks" because the phone is probably already back down[1]. I do that no matter how many times they (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) But I FULLY ADVOCATE being mean to telemarketers. Abuse them until they quit. obdisclaimer: I've worked for two telemarketing firms. What a horrible, evil, soul-destroying job. When you help a telemarketer quit, you're doing them a favor. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) After the compulsory wailing-and-gnashing-of-teeth that occured when the Loonie (and later the Toonie) were introduced in Canada, things settled down and they became accepted by most, and liked by many. Sound and fury, and all that. James (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I love coins. I am absolutely thrilled with the idea after using a pocketful of 2-pound coins (1) to travel the London Underground. Coins last longer than a bill, are easier to fumble through when in your pocket, and generally (IMO) look (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yah the Nickel, Dime, Quarter, and Half Dollar! ;-). I just hate that little piece of copper they give you that you have to throw in a bucket at home to use as a door stop. I have more door stops now than I have doors. Why do we need another (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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... (...) (25 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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(...) 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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| | The radius of a D&D fireball (Was: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds")
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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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(...) Yep. Lighter-weight than the first movie, although the massive jabs at toy collectors were heavily appreciated. Generally, mucho entertaining. (...) Yeah, I was rolling around at that point, too. (...) Hasn't everybody been laughing at (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) URL for this picture? -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Hauntd Houses- What are your views?
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Lindsay, (...) Tweaky? Where's my dictionary at? Ah..... Can't find it. Anyway, no, she did have seances there with Eleanor, to talk how to be a good first lady, deal with Bill, etc. Didn't you read about that? It was in the news a year or two ago. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I first tried to grow a mustache when I was about 16, it was pretty pathetic, but it *was* (sort of :-) ) there. Of course I was a bit thinner then. (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <snip> I dreamt the similar last month. I can't really remember all the details right now, but it was something related with an old lego retailer (yeah, a dream of course) that I find. It had two shops side by side, and while one of them was (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Heh. You know, that was well worth the eBay quarter. best Lindsay (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This I'd like to hear about, unless you're being tweaky again...I understand that for some time after her death Eleanor was purported to wander the halls of the White House. This is especially weird given that she didn't die there. However it (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, I actually (belive it or not) only got my first BV sets a week ago, not including my sister yacht from a month ago... Lately I've been totally into castle and got very involved - but I guess you don't read .castle that much ;-) I mostly (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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in lugnet.off-topic.fun, Erin Windross writes: in lugnet.off-topic.fun, Shiri Dori writes: <snip> (...) I will be posting pictures of the construction of the ship on my homepage. However, the pictures will only be of the Cargo hold, bow, stern, and (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Gee, I kinda associated Shiri with "Belville" and "Carney" ( (URL) ) with castle -John (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks for making MY day - it feels nice to be part of the community. I was quite a lurker up until not long ago... It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside to feel I'm part of such a great project and with such great people like you and Craig. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What can you say - we're # 1 (and yes - I do take little pride in such things... it makes my day in a way) -- pn ;) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) LOL! Big castle - funny, I don't even have one ;-) How did I look like in your dream? Somehow, it seems that when you talk to people through the net and don't know how they look like, you just visualize their names - not any pictures or (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Just one of those dreams. BTW, apparently my dream self is not as considerate as my real self. Had this been a RL experience, I would've offered to show both of you around. Sorry you got left out! ;-) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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What you should be apologizing for is being off-topic in off-topic;-) -John (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I (...) well Kevin making a dash is really hard.. but as for the car, im going to use the ford crown victoria police car (hometown) and edit the mesh and tga, along with the characteristics as well (pretty fast for a Lego car!) I might begin (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I had the same kind of dream a week ago. I was at this huge warehouse, and suddenly, Kevin Loch appeared along with thousands of instructions! Then, Shiri Dori appears with a huge castle! Soon hundreds of LUGnuts appear (Todd Lehman, Suzanne (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I actually know some of the kids who did this, although I didn't know about it until after the fact... I'm still rolling, but maybe you gotta be connected to UTK to get all of it. (URL) The parts you want and nothing else? (URL) - Just Another Brick (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I *thought* you looked familiar! :-, (...) The spooky thing is, if I were more laid-back, I would strum a guitar in front of this kind of club. Actually, it would be me and my brother, with whom I co-write the songs. Did you know I played (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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...you dream about LUGnuts you've never met. <Saturday night's dream> I was going by myself to a club, not a dance club, but more of a "sit down and enjoy the music" kind of club. When I got there, I saw on the marquee (a replaceable letter kind (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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(...) Pretty snazzy. I like that civic. Are you going with a big-brick look like an inflated lego car, or small-brick look like something that might come out of the LEGO model shops? I suppose if I just wait I'll find out soon enough.. heh :) An (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Nothing.. i am doing a "lego" pursuit car out of one of the cars already in the game.. (see www.geocities.com/tb...nfs3.html) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yep, whaddya wanna know? K.M. (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Anyone formiliar with the game "need for speed 3" by electronic arts? I an doing a car based upon late 90's town police car for this game If anyone is Interested just reply (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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We're not big football people, but we are taping it so we can see the commercials and the 15-carat Diamond ring valued at over $1million that Faith Hill (I think she's the right singer) is going to wear while singing the National Anthem. The (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes here is a prediction. I predict I will see the results on Sportscenter Tomarrow on ESPN Tburger (26 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I predict I won't be watching, because I don't really care.... is it on yet? I confess I don't actually know what time it starts. (26 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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It's gonna be the Titans over the Rams, 34-26 ;) Any other predictions? Greg Majewski (URL) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) There are also a couple short stories in the various "Realms of" anthologies. Personally, I thought the writing and the story were good, but am I the only one who dislikes Drizzt? I like Liriel Baenre better (I also prefer Elaine Cunningham to (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Cool, thanks! :) Jeff (URL) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No no Craig, the characters I was describing are creations of another author: R. A. Salvatore. :) I was just recommending his books to anybody who is interested in that kind of stuff. I wish I could create such cool characters! :) Bryan (26 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's definitively Swedish. Fredrik (26 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) wow, bryan! have you started on your own lego version of this for Castle World!? it would be a welcome addition! nothing like a bunch of dark elves running around to keep the foresmen, peasants, and knights on their toes! i have a character (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Does anyone know what language this is? I'm pretty sure its Scandinavian, but I can't identify it beyond that. Skyndar mig för att få vara dig nära Om och om igen, längtar jag Efter dig jag skyndar mig För att få vara dig nära Om och om igen, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) How about the BEST thing you've found in a opened Lego box? <gasp> A Best_Lock set instructions? <runs yaying> ;-) Erin -- (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Eric McCarthy wrote: snippety do dab (...) <gasp> A Best-Lock brick? <runs screaming> ;-John (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Followup to my original posting: Found two books that might be useful. Schiffer,H;1979;"Shaker Architcture";Schiffe...illvaynia; Library of Congress Catalouge No: 76,67266 & Eberlin,H.D;1990;"Historic Houses of the Hudson";Dover;New-York : CIP: (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Oops. In lugnet.starwars, I wrote: [a message that belonged, and then] (...) [followed by a message that DIDN't belong] Sorry, folks, I got carried away with the "paste" button!" -- John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D. Department of Structural Biology (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Bah! It just doesn't snow in Scotland :( Well, not in central Scotland, and not properly! But I am going to Toronto in about 2 weeks.. so I've got a chance to see some proper snow soon - wheee! :) Last year in TO, I almost got lost in a (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Say, have y'all seen Toy Story II yet? 8^) I heard Buzz Lightyear say, "You killed my father," to Emperor Zerg, and knew EXACTLY what would be said next. I couldn't help but joining in with old Zerg as he replied, then laughing my fool head (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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