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(...) Hm, I got into GI Joe just as they introduced the Swivel-Arm Battle Grip™. I loved the things--after a couple of years where fingers broke off, they changed plastic formulation for the forearms and solved that problem. I finally liquidated my (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
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(...) Heh heh heh... I used to mess with my high school's tardiness information system by calling it up and whistling 2400 to it... it would try to answer, but they'd set the timeout to 'null' due to the vagaries of having to connect remotely via (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I think this is the localised version of the "Behold the power of cheese" spots we're seeing on the west coast. -Cheese (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: What are you going to do with all those half price 8448's?
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(...) {drum roll} {cue lights} Redmond Washington, Dateline, 7 February 2000: [PR Newswire] Microsoft annouces their latest product, BlameIt2000. For all those times when you, in your home or office, need to generate blame, Microsoft has the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Used to do 2400 all the time... poor man's null modem... pick up the phone and whistle a answer carrier while the two computers listen for a carrier... :) Dave (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey, GI Joe was great! Sure, when I got my first one, I had him pegged as a weak-minded pawn of the military-industrial complex[1] (probably because of the booklet showing how to pose him in various boot-camp situations; calisthenics, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Once in a great while, unfortunately. Unlike Boston, I am back in Boston M through W next week, although busy. (...) Cool, I'll try to see if I can bring one with me next time I come. (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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How often are you in DC Larry? WAMALUG would love to have a VIP at one of our frequent meetings. -Chris (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ah, I know... replying to myself. (URL) is about the one I saw, though. -S (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Mistaken ID (was Re: I appologise for the way I handled the 9v trains idea book idea.
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(...) A splinter sect off Larritarianism? Nealist? <grin, duck> James (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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