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(...) Well, a bottle of nice Californian chardonnay'll do it for me, so I guess you've already got my vote!! ROSCO (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's not revenues, it's market cap that matters. And the "market cap" of a country is how much it costs to buy all the shares(voters) and get them to vote in your hostile takeover proposal... from what I hear you can buy an aussie's vote for 2 (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Re the takeover bid, I think the world's leading ute manufacturers have a better chance: Ford revenues + GM revenues = $170b+ $185b GDP for Australia: $380b - $15b (current account deficit writedown) $10b short -- we're safe for the moment! (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You're just mad 'cuz I outed you as a Creationist. Dave! (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Slagging Oz AND MS all in one strip! (URL) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Priorities, man... priorities! (ref: .trains) Anyway, if there's one place I expect to see Larry posting, it's in a file called "Cad". Jason J Railton (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I see both Rosco and Larry were able to reply without calling you on your improper use of a reflexive pronoun! But you knew I wouldn't be able to leave it alone, didn't you? Maggie (admittedly a bit tougher on anyone with a degree in English (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) 8?) (...) It's rumoured that it was an English, cigar-smoking prime minister, however it was actually Sir Ernest Gowers in "Plain words" (1948), who started the anecdote with "It is said that Churchill...". So the correct answer's not all that (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Either Churchill or Groucho. -John (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This is different (from usual) how? Oh wait, you said "you're" instead of "I'm"... never mind. (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I am 0K with that as long as I get to take my toys. Satan no doubt will put me in charge of torturing dour Scotsmen who ask too many questions or some similarly small group, and one of them will no doubt be in charge of torturing *me*. (no one (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Trust me, if I ever say "could care less" there's an IMPLIED "but not much less" tacked on there.... (I am reminded, completely non apropos, of "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." Can you name the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) 'Long as they've got a good supply of Vegemite, and heat-resistant technic beams, I'll be happy... ROSCO (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Ross: I just want you to know that Maggie, Larry, and yourself are all going to end up in hell. Grammar is of no consequence -- meaning is what matters. =oP -- Hop-Frog (wondering how this lugnut version of "No Exit" turns out) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) c /could/couldn't/ or c /could care less/could care less, but not much,/ 8?) ROSCO FUT: wherever... (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.appraisal, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP!
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(...) Most of the rest of this is pretty depressing PCness but I am totally behind this particular idea, where do I send my donations? :-) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Interpretation of history
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(...) ROFLMAO!!! Thanks for posting this, Ross! :-) -Tim (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This is semi-apocryphal; call it a quasi-UL. It's been around for some time--the addition of numerals before the points is the part that's new to me. (AFAIK, that was added this year.) The original is at least 25 years old, and probably older; (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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With all the talk of historical events in .debate, I thought you might all appreciate the following interpretations of history. Sorry about the formatting. WARNING: Do not read these with food or drink in your mouth, or if you're doing something (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: More voting( Re: More Shamelessly Insisting I Get What I Want
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(...) Perhaps we may view the ill-structured sentence as containing a non-terminating Dave! A reason to avoid this construction is that there is no guarantee of rationality, whereas the implication of rationality CAN be made given the existence of a (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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