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(...) in (...) stuff (...) work (...) another (...) bit (...) hope (...) The Charge of the Light Brigade was simple confusion compounded by pompous idiocy - I'm not sure I'd rate it with the others (unless you want to count the entire Crimean War). (...) (26 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Only in Western Europe could tactical stupidity be celebrated in heroic song. The Charge of the Light Brigade is right up there with Magersfontein, Little Bighorn, and Isandhlwana for the award of "stupid overconfident tactical manoeuvres." (...) (26 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Crimean war. I'm always quoting from the Charge of the Light Brigade at work (great for those Dilbertesque situations). Bruce (26 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Xcalabur wrote in message ... (...) Hey, a slightly obscure movie reference that I got (though I would have struggled to remember the movie title). I watch so few movies, and essentially no TV that I tend to dislike trivia type games. Though if (...) (26 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <runs away screaming with his arms flapping like a bird> (26 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I had no idea that we worked for the same company! Dave! (26 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ditto with companies I've worked for--except the heads DO get reattached, only not in their original position. best LFB FUT-> o-t.fun (26 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I was always good in "Where's Waldo", and that type of thing. :-) -Shiri xfut .fun (26 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) of (...) minifg (...) in (...) that (...) necessarily (...) may (...) out (...) Harrison (...) connection (...) Indy (...) eradicate (...) It's very strange how licensing works and what you can and can't do with an actor's face. I'll give you (...) (26 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ahh, working for family members. I'm also entertaining the idea of working for my dad this summer to get some better money saved for college. He's a foreman on a milling crew. If you don't know what a mill is, go to (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not "real" in the sense that I pay taxes, no... but I got a temporary, better- paying project for my dad's (tentative) company... I also still baby-sit every Friday afternoon, which is a nice, dependable source of [small] income. -Shiri xfut (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's correct. But "ancient" is palaeo-. ;) In "archaic" it's that last "a" that makes the difference--it's a merger of "archae" + "-ic". (...) There is an off-topic.bs...off-topic.geek. ;) Part of the reason why the words are so close, (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) OK, I take it back. :-) -Shiri xfut .o-t.fun (26 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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<snip the looooong message I wrote> I forgot to mention; these are not Girl Scouts, but unisex scouts (ie, boys and girls together). -Shiri (26 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Nope, I wasn't jesting. I am not a jester, after all. (...) I believe you are thinking of "archaeo", as in Archaeopteryx. :) "The Dinosaur Data Book" says, and I quote, "gave rise to the archosaurs or 'ruling reptiles'" (...) Maybe we do need (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) fixation (...) goes (...) questions! Heh! Not really! Ages ago, during my senior year in high school, through an inspired bit of casting, I was shoved into the part of the Munchkin Mayor. Tallest guy in the play (just 6’1"--not especially (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) question. (...) the person (...) of the word (...) Cut and paste from on-line dictionary: 15th century. Directly or via French monarque from late Latin monarcha from Greek monarkhos , literally "to rule alone," from mono- "alone" + arkhein "to (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Okay, Dave will have to go on the list for those obscure L. Frank Baum questions! Maggie (26 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No. (26 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: "The Saga Begins" by Weird Al - Funny! : )
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Ben, (...) great. (...) Al's (...) The Star Wars charter says : "lugnet.starwars- LEGO®/Star Wars®: products (information, opinions, reviews, licensing issues, etc.); building (settings, contexts, characters, projects, models, layouts, plans, tools, (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.starwars)
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