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(...) A very sad occurrence. It looks like the news sites are all buckling under the load. Here is what I know now (I am in Detroit in between flights... now not sure if my next flight (to IND) is going to go, NYC flights are all cancelling), based (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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To All, Well, I got the text for it here, sounds like two planes hit it! : ( NEW YORK — Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center, igniting huge blazes in the world's third tallest buildings in the heart of New York City. The crashes by (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) not sure this is the correct place for this, but washingtonpost.com has a blurb on it. :/ Dan (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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To All, I just heard a plane crashed into the World's Trade Center. However, none, and I mean none, of the internet sites seem to be connecting! (Fox News, CBS, ABC, CNN, etc.) Does anyone know anything? I don't consider this fun, but it seems the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What do you mean? I found Pig Latin. It's there. LFB (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh my...someone has WAAAAAAAAYYYYY to much time on their hands over at Google...if they keep this up, they may have to change their name to "Giggle"! I WAS a bit dissapointed though...what? No pig-latin? Geez! Matt (BTW, hacker made my head (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Mecha? I was just there for the Krispy Kreme Donuts. :^P ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I liked Elmah Fwudd... Not sure I would want to leave the site set that way though... (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Sorry Jim, I didn't see you followed this up to .fun. There was a recent article in the NYTimes about converse and i think an NPR report in the past three weeks. Most of my info came from those sources. That's interesting new that they are still (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Google has now added support for Swedish Chef Language: (URL) thing I've seen all day. -chris ps. there are several other fun languages as well (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey, I've allready been running around chasing these dumb cable companies trying to get my dang roadrunner internet working! Arrrg is all I have to say... <Orders a big anvil from ACME to kill roadrunner with!> :^D --Kyle (URL) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Bummer of the Week: LEGO Made in China (long forgotten subject!)
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(...) Which is a dodge. The way that little ditty is written, he is clearly trying to minimise or whitewash what was going on. Comparing it to the US/Canada border??? Come ON! (...) Sometimes you don't need to meet someone in person to tell what (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeh, but note it's a personal call, and he also points out (elsewhere) that "overrated" doesn't mean "unimportant." (...) Dunno, never met the guy. LFB (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) OK, great. So how was this a non event? Wasn't aware that millions of enslaved people was a "non event". (enslaved by the USSR's territorial aggrandisement, by the way, I haven't forgotten I have some stuff to come back to...) He's a twit. (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, you did not. But I must say it doesn't take *a wall* to prevent people from fleeing (see "Iron curtain"), and people got shot and killed while crossing borders in different contexts: before 1974 you could get killed by the portuguese (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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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