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(...) You'd be much more likely to get something worthy of Shakespeare with a little conflict...say, six monkeys on *one* typewriter. eep eep, Lindsay (26 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) perception. (...) Yah, I like the olympics. Other sports are really just out there, y'know? (...) Don't let Todd here ya say that! :-) (...) I used to read phone books. It was pretty amusing to see how many "Cohen" families were listed in the (...) (26 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Huh... (...) Obviously. ;) (...) I didn't say garlic was nasty, I said Uber Garlic *Pickles* were nasty. ;) Jeff (26 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's kinda like tennis played with a wiffle ball and wooden wiffle raquets, except the rules are more like those of ping-pong. I think. But it's been a long time. Stupid game, and nobody's ever heard of it. (...) Garlic? Nasty? Never! J (26 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) and don't list your e-mail addie anywhere!!except lugnet that is 8-) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sure. It takes them a little while to find your address somewhere and stick you on lists. I've toyed with setting up a scheme whereby the addresses I use publicly auto-expire after 30 days... (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Yet more Anime News
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(...) Lucky. I was waiting to see ads for it on tv (yeah, I know, silly me, an ad for a REAL movie, in america, yeah, right). Anyway, I got bored and checked nausicaa.net just out of curiosity and said "oh no!" and went and saw it asap. Kinda how I (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Well Shiri i discoverd that switching to an altered e-mail addie every 3 months for a year tends to reduce spam-don't ask why but it works ravi (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) to (...) Sorry bout my mistake.what little i know about the chiristian faith i learnt in school and i guess my knowledge is limited to that ravi (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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The way I heard it was: "It is said that an infinite number of monkeys at keyboards will eventually produce great works of literature. But now that we have the internet, we know that is not the case." (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, that was what it needed THEN (back in the 70s (??) when that song was first popular). (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I thought what the world needs now is love, sweet love... :) Jeff (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I saw it three times, at three different theatres. :) The first time was a week before the premier at a special screening at the Freer Gallery here in DC. I was the first person in line. :) Then I saw it next two theatres that got it in the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Both of those would be very cool. When I found out that Mononoke was playing here I managed to see it twice in one week. I would of seen it more (probably around 10+) but that was the last week they were showing it. *sighs* And that was such (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Sometimes I wonder about those monkeys on the typewriters (1), and how similar that is to spamming. One of the stories relating to that theory, is that if you put those said 6 monkeys on typewriters, they'll write every book in the Great Library... (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What the world needs now is another filksinger like I need a hole in my head. --Todd (26 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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That was a Really Bad pastiche. Are you sure you've never been a filk singer? (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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St. Patrick was from a Roman aristocrat family. The boat ride was involuntary at first, but when he was "rescued" again back to Britain, its society seemed so alien to him that he chose missionary work instead. (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Shiri Dori wrote in message ... (...) That one is a little difficult. However there should be enough clues in my posts from yesterday to figure it all out. It does rely on speaking some of the words with a Boston accent. Frank (26 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) I work on an irish bar (Murphy's). And we celebrate St. Paddy's with a blast. I could tell you that St. Patrick is really Irish... Erin Go Bragh!!!! (26 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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