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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Pete White and Lindsay Frederick Braun write: (...) Bloody hell LFB -- one quick websearch and I'm scarred for life.[1] (...) Hey Pete, did Richard "Hop-Frog" Marchetti cover that in his grading guide? "Slight scratches, (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Being on the ball, I must jump in here. Kangaroo meat is in supermarkets here (AUS), it's low in fat, high in protein. But it mainly goes into pet food, people of European descent seem to prefer, four on the floor beasts for their meat. Is the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's an interesting mental image. I wonder if they play cricket with those wheelchair-bound frogs...? Anyways, I first heard about roo-scrotum baggies about four years ago. It's up there with all kinds of pointlessly disgusting things that (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, when you look at it that way, 'upset' does seem a bit odd. I just tend to visualize these 'roos still hopping around sans something important to them, that's all. -Dave (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Short? Check. Elderly? Check. Balding? Check. Ears that stick out? Check. Not the snappiest dresser? Check. Sometimes unintelligible to Americans? Check. But no. Yoda wasn't a cigar smoker. (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yoda? (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Dave, why "feel upset"? The 'roos are to be eaten anyway... so why not use the leather to the most of it? Isn't it what we do with pigs, use their guts as "cover" for sausages and similars? Pedro <== amused by the sort of thing one learns from (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Matt, I got as far as 'They appear to be leather and have a fantastic, "designer" appearance' before not being able to read anymore...I'm not sure whether to be laughing or upset that this is on ebay.... -Dave (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Proving that I don't use eBay for anything that I'm not directly interested in, a link from a newsgroup led me to a catagory I'd never seen before... (URL) absolute strangest thing I saw there was this (the title alone floored me!): (URL) think I'll (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No need to be apologetic-- that (along with an email in which the writer idly speculates about whether he could get away with burying the women he knows under the porch) is the most amusing stuff I've read all day! Alas, my real-life (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Only if the other species attacks by trying to bite the enemy's eyeballs. (Yes I know that you saw it coming. I know you did. HA!) LFB (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Just like the look of these, thought I'd share the story! (URL) by this excerpt: They are designed to "herd" with their kind and battle with other species by, as Tilden himself put it, "stomping on the other one's head." Is this guy related to (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Indeed it is, and plural would be "kudH" (that's an Eta) but I can't use it in a sentence. Webster's (1968) reports that the English plural is also "kudos". Was it the candy bar that brought in into the mainstream? The word means "glory, fame, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) First of all, let me congratulate you for your e-business choice. Such kind of service is always needed, and I'd be a user of it rather frequently. (...) That would depend, both on countries and sort of business (scale, I think). If your (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.market.theory)
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hello! For a school project, we are supposed to write a business proposal for a hypothetical e-commerce site. The business I plan to write about is setting up a Lego resale operation worldwide. The main concept is this: We all no there are from time (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not necessarily. I didn't do it to make the point (which would have been wayyy off topic), I did it to imply that I was saying kudos. I think you're right that it's abstract; I should have put it in scare quotes, but I dislike them enough that (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What a terrible way to live! I hope those complaining about the $10 cost of a Lugnet membership can appreciate this example of real suffering. I mean, imagine living for three months with the smell of rancid bacon grease permeating all your (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Heck, I wasn't even sure if he HAD broken a rule. The dictionary also said it was a colloquialism, particularly in academia, and since my copy is an edition last updated in 1974, I figured if anyone was up on the latest on the evolution of the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I had a room-mate in 1991 who would buy a big package of bacon every two weeks on the day he got paid. He'd fry up the bacon and eat it all day the next day. For the remainder of his two-week pay cycle, he would reheat some of the bacon grease (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm pretty sure that it's an abstract noun (so by itself "kudos" should be article free). But was it okay for Lindsay to break that rule to make his point clearer? (...) !!!! ...we are not worthy... --DaveL (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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