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| Anyone seen this movie yet? I did and I must say it was a lot better than I was expecting it to be. It was a bit predictable, though. Nonetheless, I still thought it was great! That Sciconian chariot scnee was the greatest! Greg Majewski (URL) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I saw it Thursday. I think that it was quite good. My strongest compliment is that the cinematography provides beautiful scenes...all of them, in fact. Chris (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Loved that scene! A bit more gorilla-chest-pounding violence and a bit less sappy foreshadowing and it could've been a truly great movie. :-) I felt it was worth the price of admission just for the eye-candy in the initial 15 minutes. And Man, (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) For my money, the best scene by far is... ummm, I'm going to insert some spoiler space here: That oughta do it. If you're looking down here, you must not care. The scene where Maximus kills all the guys who were supposed to execute him in the (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I've trained my wife too well since she asked me after the movie if cavalry really would be sent on a long outflanking manuveur through the woods and if there was any reason to use fire except cinematic. Great opening sequence, though. :-) And (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) after it opened. After all the touble getting in (there were nine of us, only four credit cards between us and you cant get tickets to an R movie with out credit cards so we had to split it all up, etc.). After thirty minutes three people (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Just as a note, spoiler space works better in NNTP than in the web interface, I think. When you're at the front page, or at the list of posts in a group, all the space is compacted out by Todd's algorithm. So I saw your spoiler anyway, not (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I (...) Hmm. Oops. I read in compact mode, so I forget about the summaries. I know what can be done about it, though: SPOLIER: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 That oughta do it. :D Sorry if anyone had (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) [snip] Not quite. Try again. :) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Nice! It even shows up as a DAT! Heheh. I suppose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . would woek better. :D eric (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) That didn't work. How about: asdflkjlaksdjflk;jar...lhgsd;hkj; dhgs;jhdgs;hsdgal;hg...k;sdg;jhad g;kjhgsdk;jskd;jhagk...sdgkjhsdjg k;sjkd;hgajk;hgasd;h...fhk;jhksfd ;jhksf;jhgsdf;jhgd;g...;hsjdf;jhk sdf;jfhds;kjhasd;kjh...asd;fai;ow (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| How about not creating so much wasted space and just waiting until someone invents a <SPOILER> HTML tag for this purpose? ;-) -- Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde -- www.fastinternet.net.au/~ghyde -- Alan Gerber <foofoogood@hotmail....ed_e-mail> wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Npghnyyl, ebg13 jnf vairagrq sbe guvf checbfr. (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Good point! I see *exactly* what you mean! Greg "They're a bit too nasal for my taste" Majewski (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| Which reminds me, I must find out if some program HAS a ROT13 decoder!! Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn8i16sc.qve.....bu.edu... (...) someone (...) Translation: Actually, rot13 was invented for this purpose. -- Mind (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) For those who don't know what this is, it is a simple code called 'rot13' where the letters are numbered from 1 to 26, then for each number, 13 is added or subtracted to get another such number, then that number is converted back to a letter. (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) slrn does. :) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Netscape's newsreader used to be able to, but I just looked, and they seem to have taken it out, or at least moved it. Of course, there's always: #!/usr/bin/perl foreach ('a'..'m', 'A'..'M') { $q = chr(ord($_)+13); $p{$_} = $q; $p{$q} = $_; } (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| as an afterthought --- perhaps if todd is bored sometime, he'll add this to the web interface. (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| I'm not sure Windows 98 understands rot13, perl, or whatever it is you wrote that in ... ;-) But thanks anyway!! If anyone knows of shareware or preferably freeware that decodes rot13 gibberish, let me know! -- Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde -- (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Try this link (URL) type the text and press the TRANSLATE button (works both ways). Alternately try one of these programs... (URL) just search for "rot13" with any search engine (Altavista, Yahoo, etc.) Axel (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Perl is free, and it runs on Win98. <URL:(URL). Python does too. <URL:(URL). (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) tr [a-zA-Z] [n-za-mN-ZA-M] Cheers, (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Along with the other suggestions, Free Agent will do ROT13. (URL) Steve (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| Geoffrey Hyde skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Outlook Express has, at least my 4.72! Just raise your eyes to the menu line, press 'Edit', and there it is! Or did they remove it from OE5? -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) the dollar cinemas.) Sure, it was predictable, but very well done, nonetheless. I don't really expect unpredictablility from an action movie, I just hope that the predictably is done well. I've decided that Gladiator is my 3rd favorite movie - (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Can't find it in my version 5! ;-( -- Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde -- www.fastinternet.net.au/~ghyde -- Anders Isaksson <isaksson.etuna@REMO...tninet.se> wrote in message news:Fuo0z8.52n@lugnet.com... (...) line, (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) I am using Netscape Communicator 4.5 on a Sparc and all I have to do is right click on the message and choose unscramble. I checked and on 4.61 it is also there. Hope this helps. Brian (25 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) This was an excellent movie--as a movie. All the technology of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Letdown" at the service of a fresh story! Just keep in mind it was TOTAL FICTION. I'm going to see it a few more times (two is not enough) and maybe I (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) about (...) this. (...) was (...) who (...) But he did rate pretty high on the loonie scale. I think it was said that he was the only emperor to have absolutely no redeeming value (though what redeeming values Caligula or Nero had, I'm not (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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