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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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(...) 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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(...) {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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(...) 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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(...) 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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