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Re: Phrase
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:30:08 GMT
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The following is a totally serious post, my apologies for posting it in .fun...
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
<more than you probably expected could be said about 17th century naval
history... unless you knew the inestimable LFB that is>
What I think is *really neat* about our little hobby is how many DIFFERENT
kinds of geeks it attracts. There are experts here on more topics than you
could possibly shake a stick at. (1)
Is that cool or what?
1 - and no I don't know the derivation of that phrase either and I *wasn't
asking*!!!
++Lar
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| (...) What? I could write a book on a rowboat! Not that rowboat, that other one over there... (...) Hey! Take it to .geek! We can't be having fun in .geek, or geeks in .fun, or 911 turbos that do a quarter mile in 1.3 seconds in .loc.au! Now that (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) Very. Definitely. BTW, Larry, speaking of geeks of some sort, you're a system architect, right? My dad is writing a book (1) about system modeling, and I'm actually his editor (nobody (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) No, it was the act of the theft of those ships in the Sound in 1667. It's one of the only times that London (the city of) actually *panicked* over a foreign threat. If memory serves, it was one of the fleet flagships that the Dutch made off (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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