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(...) "symbolic"? (...) Here [1] it says that 171 people were killed trying to escape. Just checking/correcting facts... I don't really know the exact number or if this source is correct. [1] (URL) (...) Mladen Pejic, over and out! (URL) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) He's a twit. Quoting: The Berlin Wall (1961-89) Berlin: the grim and lonely front line in the Cold War. What exactly happens on the front lines of a non-event? Border guards glare at one another; they patrol the barbed wire perimeter, and (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I couldn't find any more informative references to or by him either -- his comments on Ayn Rand's propagandists were sufficient guarantee of reliability for me as a layperson: (URL) (#18) --DaveL (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) any better an idea than I do who he is? Not having real contact info forces me to double check a lot of his sources as litmus tests, but he's really done a very good job of documentation. best LFB (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I really enjoyed the scope of this guy's work: lots of comparison and synthesis, mostly from a global perspective. His fun stuff is neat too -- I particularly liked the alternative history of Moslem Australia. (URL) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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WoW, well, umm, I appear to have gone off on a tad bit of a tangent here! I can assure you that my original intent wasnt to indulge in primate genocide. Its just that I've put a bit TOO much thought into the whole eye bitin Monkey thing and (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) As you know, raw strength can be turned against its user. The catch would be that chimps, as similar as they are to us, move in different ways. In a sense you "wouldn't know your enemy" and thus might underestimate him/her/it in some (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.general, Christopher Tracey writes: <snippitty-doo-da> (...) I had heard this news many months ago and in a panic rushed to buy-up a lifetime supply of my favorite low-tops (a necessary part of my social uniform). However, according to my (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If it were a true death match, and if the chimp had (in its opinion) a real reason to kill you, I think I'd bet on the chimp--no offense. (...) Well, there are a few chimps who've earned black belts over the years, and their reach is probably (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Its always nice to be remembered!!! (...) Indeed, and watchin Tim Burtons rendition of -Planet of the Apes- only reinforces the point. (Can you believe that a little chimp is really 3 times stronger than a man
I'd bet that I could probably (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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