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(...) Well, just load it up with a shipment of Spamcake n' Beans. ;^) ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime 18 Jan 2001 for memory upgrade
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(...) Mark: *cackle* <hangs up, but only for a moment> <grabs phone again, presses redial> *beep boop beep beep boop* Todd: mmbluuh? Mark: Hello, is Al there? Last name Cohallack... Todd: bluuuuugghhhhh.. Mark: *wheee...eee!* <hangs up> Todd: (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | 3 Yeminis sue NASA for trespass on Mars
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Even though this is from 4 years ago, I found it and thought I'd show you all. It also refers to that company selling lunar real estate, which was brought up here on Lugnet a while back. I hope none of you bought it. (URL) Falslev (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The future is now
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Actually it was the future in the 1960s (URL) was fooling around with a concept called "Hardiman" a few decades ago. The first picture may seem familiar because that's where the idea for the forklift suit in Aliens came from. They shelved Hardiman (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character
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Sorry this should have been directed to .off-topic.fun not .fun please direct any responses accordingly. Eric K. (...) with (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Anyone dream in colour?
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(...) Black and white sometimes, color others. My weirder ones were during the times I was doing intensive graphics work on computers: I'd dream in colored pixels, and then actively started changing the pixels around in my dream to look better. My (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Anyone dream in colour?
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(...) Yes, I had heard that as well when the discussion came up (high creativity levels) but I just didn't want to assume anything and keep myself honest so I've always answered the question as "No." Not today though. Now I can honestly say (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I found myself in the same position once, I wanted to know if I dreamed in color or black and white, because people ask so often, but I could never remember. But I had a dream one night in which I was visiting someone I hadn't seen in years (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Finally! In Cinemas! The LOTR preview!
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I do not think those things you saw are in the web preview! The spell cast by the 1977 holiday broadcast of The Hobbit has never really worn off me. This will be a great treat at the end of the year. Not all those who wander are lost... (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Finally! In Cinemas! The LOTR preview!
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(...) I've been waiting for something of this scale for 33 years. Get behind me in line. :-) Bruce (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Finally! In Cinemas! The LOTR preview!
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O' Mighty Tolkien!, who can stand in thy counsels? I realize that everyone has no doubt seen the previews on the web, but, alas, I had not. I was saving myself for the cinema experience. Finally, it came... I saw the first preview for LOFR last (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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(...) Tee hee. No, I don't. My ancestry is Scottish, not Irish. My family came from the "Sandy Lands" of Scotland, hence my last name :^) ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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(...) Austin Powers aside, given your hair... You don't own a green bowler, do you? eric (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Show report
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(...) My collection outgrew closets long ago. Now it's threatening to outgrow the entire basement. :-) Oh, you mean *that* closet. Well I do want/need to put a rainbow sticker on my car, it's true, but I'm happy with the side of the bread my butter (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The future is now
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(...) I wasn't around back in the 60s, but I have read about the machine you're describing. I suppose microprocessor and strong, light materials have progressed to the point where they would like to try it again. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The future is now
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(...) Speaking of which, I'm pretty sure I saw the first artist's conceptions (or possibly even a photo of a full-sized mock-up) of a powered exoskeleton in PM, back in the 60s. IIRC, it was called something like "the Man Amplifier", and had a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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(...) He'll never get his hands on me Lucky Charms. What? Why's everyone always laugh when ah say that? ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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"Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote in message news:G77wA6.4n5@lugnet.com... (...) with (...) or b) (...) Ah, 'Optrex' is an eye-wash/lotion over on this side of the paddling pool. Nicholas Allan (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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(...) One should never be too busy to fully explore the wonderous tapestry of our common storytelling culture. Folklore and myth bind us together! But, uh, yeah. eric (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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(...) Hey Eric, have you considered the possibility that you may have too much time on your hands? :-) Maggie C. (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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