 | | Re: Herring
|
|
(...) Probably. OTOH, I realized that if I had been posting on lugnet since it started, in the same frequency I had been posting between Dec. 1999 and mid-July 2000, I'd have more posts than even you do. <gasp> -Shiri (lucky fifth blabbermouth) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Herring
|
|
(...) Somebody's been watching "Wrong Trousers" on Comedy Central?? ++Lar (responding to as many sillicisms as I can in .fun is a reason my post totals are so high) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: First (was Re: Ultimate castle theme..)
|
|
(...) Tee Hee. Yay Me! ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | First (was Re: Ultimate castle theme..)
|
|
(...) Congratulations Mark on being the first post of the new millennium. :-) (Of course some would argue for the odometer turn over a year ago.) SRC (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Herring
|
|
Mm! Herring for breakfast. A penguin's favorite holiday! (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Proposal: a TOWN building contest!
|
|
How about just 3 catagories: ~100 pieces ~1000 Pieces ~unlimited So, you would have vehicles in the ~100 piece catagory, along with parks, park benches, and other neat (small) things. Smaller houses/buildings would fall into the ~1000 piece (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Proposal: a TOWN building contest!
|
|
Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G6G54x.7Fp@lugnet.com... (...) Oh just go ahead and pick on the guy because he has more classic windows than any of us ever will. Sheesh. ;-) -Tim (25 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Proposal: a TOWN building contest!
|
|
(...) I think we shouldn't let Gary participate at all (coz he'll obviously win). <grin> Kidding, kidding! But he prolly would, too. :-) -Shiri (who *is* actually considering doing something... but what? hmm) XFUT .o-t.fun (25 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: The Grinch toys
|
|
(...) Not true. The TTTE stuff from Hornby appeared before the TV show was finished (in 1984/5). So, it was based on the books, and what was available in the Hornby mold room rather than on the TV show. (It also predates most of the C. Audry books- (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Three New Train Cars
|
|
(...) No, I don't believe I did make that implication. If you drew that inference where it wasn't implied, I'd say that was sloppy, imprecise, non critical thinking on your part. (...) Well, you're certainly the expert from long practice on sloppy (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: New S@H Catalog
|
|
(...) You're right, I don't want to be loose against you, too much chance of damage, I have a lot of parts that might break off. But I'm not worried about losing against you in the over 30 group, since there isn't one. There's just an 18+ one, and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Classic Space Contest: Final votes tallied -- results to follow
|
|
(...) Sorry! How about "winner, but not the biggest winner"? After all, no one who entered is a "loser", all the entries are neat. (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: New S@H Catalog
|
|
Or go the high road and make an "Operation Lifesaver" boxcar. see: (URL) Larry, you just don't want to loose agaisnt me in the over 30 group! ;D SteveB (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: New S@H Catalog
|
|
(...) Whew. Well for a sec there I thought I wouldn't be able to enter my "poke your eye out with a sharp stick flatcar load"... (...) Based on what we've seen in the mania magazines, I suspect the answer would be "potentially quite a bit". ++Lar (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Review: 7316 - Life On Mars: Excavation Searcher
|
|
In lugnet.reviews, Karim Nassar writes an excellent, prescient review: (...) <snip> (...) Dude, how'd you *do* that? You wrote this, like, 4 years ago and you've been keeping it to yourself all this time?? Whoa. No fair. Mom, Karim's got a wayback (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Tractor beam?
|
|
(...) Well, don't ask the fans, they're groping, get the professional's fifteen answers. I don't know who came up with this one, it might be Thomas Disch or Barry Malzberg or David Kyle: F&SF is "fiction set in an empirical universe other than our (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: The Grinch toys
|
|
Markus Wolf wrote in message ... (...) Same with Pooh. All the Pooh toys out there are based on Disney's rendition of Pooh, not the original Pooh drawn by E. H. Sheperd. And the Thomas the Tank toys are based on the TV series, not the original (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Totally non-Lego, but...
|
|
(...) I've bought some hardcover LEGO books, but then as far as I know, it's the only way to stretch for ultimate Pirate completeness (which is eluding me by one set, one book, some service packs, any keychains, all variants of boxes and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Tractor beam?
|
|
(...) That's one reason I like the term F&SF (Fantasy and Science Fiction). It nicely lumps everything together, though it is still hard to define (really, most fiction could be considered fantasy). There certainly are books I would consider part of (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Off-Subject
|
|
(...) Well, if you post your off-topic message to an off-topic newsgroup, you shouldn't be sorry :) FUT: OT.F (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
