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(...) **snip of some interesting stuff!** (...) this) The only $.02 I can contribute: I just bought an Osprey book of Lockheed "cutaways" featuring some interesting breadth info about a number of aircraft without much depth about any specific model. (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Bowlin' Fer Souls
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(...) Ah, I checked the source. It relies Javascript for the download... :-P Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Mousepad & Mug preview #2 (was: Re: LUGNET T-Shirts are in!)
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(...) Whoops. Let's get the followup right on that. (26 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Head Hunting
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(...) Heh heh. C'mon, Jon, how can you hate Sam Sinister? eric (26 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: This is the the biggest LEGO lot I have seen online
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(...) It means *dig dig* that I'm checking *dig scrape* *dig* my pockets. Hm, two Vichy francs (long story), a quarter, three pennies, and a whorl of vaguely blue lint. Do you think blue lint is worth $241,487.65? It *is* a one-of-a-kind original. (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Military Weapon Designations?
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OK, here's something hopefully definitive: (...) However, the Mustang experimental craft were "XP-51," while the Superfortress designation was "YB-17," and they came from the same level of production. Rather than designating sector of origin, (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: This is the the biggest LEGO lot I have seen online
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Let's see now seven 40 foot shipping containers worth of LEGO???? Wonder how the heck he got that much? :-) Would be a LEGO fanatic's wish come true if someone buys all of it off him!! ;-) And at $241,428 USD per container that's one heck of a lot (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: This is the the biggest LEGO lot I have seen online
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(...) Wow! Changing followups to lugnet.fun (sorry - this post is off-topic for lugnet.off-topic.fun!). (take this post as a friendly reminder that we now have lugnet.fun for fun directly related to LEGO - though this thread is also appropriate to (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.fun)
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| | Re: This is the the biggest LEGO lot I have seen online
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(...) Golly! (26 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Bowlin' Fer Souls
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(...) Link is good. I just checked it. The animations come in two flavors: Mediaplayer and Quicktime. And its the full 3 1/2 minutes of the cartoon. What can I say? -- Richard (26 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Military Weapon Designations?
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<snip> (...) The "Y" designation refers to a pre-production fighter's experimental status. I think if the government is producing it, they give it the "X" prefix. ~Mark (26 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Crushes (was Re: Greenburg Show Dec 2nd & 3rd in Wilmington MA
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(...) "And we learned that even a black tube going up her large intestine and a nice big shot of Demerol can't make Katie Couric unchatty." Superb journalism like that is rare these days. -Adam 8^D (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Crushes (was Re: Greenburg Show Dec 2nd & 3rd in Wilmington MA
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(...) with (...) I think it's Katie Couric... I feel it's key to know how to spell the names of those you have crushes on(0). And I hear you about wanting to flirt. You are not alone, my friend... (2 URLs) (1) and what has to take the cake, so to (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) you're (...) Start with Mewtwo. ;-) You're pretty much limited to your starters. In Red & Blue, you can choose from Charmander (fire), Bulbasaur (grass), or Squirtle (water); your in-game rival picks after you, and gets the one that beats your (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Military Weapon Designations?
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(...) I understand that it's quite arbitrary, and includes some amount of marketing tactics as well as back-biting amongst the various military departments and contract bidders. For example, the M-16 is a 5.56 caliber carbine fully-automatic rifle (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Military Weapon Designations?
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How are the official designations for military weapons decided in the US? That is, what do the M and the 16 mean, exactly, in M-16? I know, of course, that many weapons are described by their calibre and bore size, but what about the others? For (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Bowlin' Fer Souls
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(...) Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | SPOOF WARNS OF AIBO, THE ATTACK DOG
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SPOOF WARNS OF AIBO, THE ATTACK DOG A humorous posting on Bugtraq, a popular computer security e-mail list, warns that hackers have found a way to take over Sony's Aibo robot dog and command it to attack and perform other annoying canine tricks. The (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: FOTL
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(...) Since this was a self-proclaimed FOT*L*, I don't believe that a "next time" is permitted! ;) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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