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(...) Todd, these are funny. Are you running them through Babelfish, perhaps? Or does your twisted mind come up with these phrasings on its own? (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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 | | Re: Online eProxy services?
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(...) Hmmm...so Australians can't be leftists? :) Maybe, since they look at the world upside-down, it's actually the right to them? As it says on my Australia-centered map, "Long live Australia--RULER of the UNIVERSE!" (...) Yeah, but "Baywatch" (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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 | | Re: Making Lego airborne
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(...) Nope, those were the Zeppelin's defense screen. :-, A few of them carried a small handful of combat fighters for defense, but they proved to be extremely difficult to "land" under the airbag, and the loading/unloading crane mechanism was (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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 | | Re: Making Lego airborne
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(...) Just saw this last week on the USA channel. It was definitely a zeppelin--Drs Jones escaped by running along a catwalk inside the airship, to one of the airplanes which was hanging off the airship (what were those, escape planes?). The (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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 | | Re: Yet more Anime News
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(...) *sigh...* Someone apparently misinterpreted a Fox representative. He just mentioned Escaflowne, and that got out as an official statement... However, the press confrence this was at was about Fox Family getting Detective Conan. I saw the movie (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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 | | Re: Just 2 cents about nothing...
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(...) Ja, der Markus und der Lindsay haben recht. Besonders weil die Europäer das meistens wissen von LEGO (es ist ja doch ein Europäische spiel!). Ein Deutscher auswanderer, Gary Istok (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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 | | Re: Purimish fun
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(...) What I always love is the way people look for a way to clear the display on an RPN calculator so they can start a new calculation (one of the things I like best about an RPN calculator is that when you start a new calculation, and suddenly you (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Because HP had a patent on them, and by the time the patent ran out, there just wasn't enough market (I suspect most people real attached to RPN would also be fairly HP loyal). (...) What I want is a <$25 fairly simple calculator. I don't (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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 | | Re: Purimish fun
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(...) Heh, not only remedial math students, but any fellow students who use a TI or some other brand. "Can I borrow your calculator? Oh, wait, you have an HP. Never mind..." I know some people who never got used to their HP's last year, and carry (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I wonder why RPN calculators are so rare...When I was in elementary school, the only calculator in our house was a RPN HP with a 3-level stack (but it only displayed the top of the stack) It was bigger than most modern graphing calculators and (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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