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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 wasn’t to indulge in primate genocide. It’s 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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(...) It’s 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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(...) I'm sorry, I just really remember that. It's not an entry one soon forgets! ;) I'm just happy I didn't get my head stepped on at that particular time (we won't talk about "since then"--I think my eyes were bitten *and* my head stepped upon (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:GJ6H7y.K8M@lugnet.com... (...) LOL ! ;-) -- Enjoy ! Dejan & Nives Lugnet #595 Brickbay: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Gneiss catch! But with you, I take it for granite. best LFB XFUT-> if you can't figure it out, we'll have to take away your badge. (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Ahhh yes, isn't that just emblematic of Young Love? Boy meets Girl Girl likes Boy Boy falls for Girl Girl falls for Boy Boy kisses Girl Girl shows Boy her Holiday Willa... ...and they live happily ever after. Wow, that sounds almost R-rated! (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GJ5LH4.1rp@lugnet.com (...) going (...) Well, I have to "interfere" here and reply to both emails with one ! "NeeD" (in NeeD Lego! Brickbay shop) stands for Nives and Dejan which means (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Na, just jaded. ++Lar (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Egad. Your children are Mundanes? ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Speaking of needs... I need to riff on this subject line! "subject: NeeD Lego Praise" Ya, don't we all. I show my models to my wife and she just sniffs. I show them to my kids and they're like "ho hum, another train, when are you going to build a (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I have no clue! Do tell. (...) My favorite album / song from him? One would have to be Values Clarification, and I want to be a Clone right now. I only have two of his albums (I have a live album, but I don't count those), Now the Truth Can be (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh, no. Not you too! First my own mother and now Dave! (See? I can work your name in too, Dave! Hey! I did it again!) In all seriousness, I'm a historian, primarily of Britain and imperialism in 19th- and 20th-C. Africa. Because I teach and (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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