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(...) Yep, found it from Dave's link: (URL) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Okay, NELUG--you've gotta come up with the $20 to have a "I Coined 'GONK'" shirt made for him. C'mon, you KNOW you want to. On the back you can put the Google addy. ;) best LFB (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) here's the (quote) "hole story": (URL) dave (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Martin (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Yeah, there's been a lot of rpi.edu addresses surfacing in this history stuff. -Erik formerly olsone@rpi.edu (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh, Hi fellow Alums... Frank (BSCSE '85, MEngCSE '89) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(URL) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah, I read the title and thought, "Could it be that someone has built something that is utterly gonk-proof? Impossible!" Little did I know that the body of the message would yeild news even more impressive than that. Hearty congratulations (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Of course, all the coolest geek stuff comes from RPI. Nason Hall, no less. You should write to the Alumni Assn., I bet they would give you a mention in the magazine. :) -Alfred (RPI '94) (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sounds good, Eric! Let's get a third gathering together sponsored by Brickfest and BricksWest and that could be the logo for the new meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. (The preceeding was indeed a joke). -Dave (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I couldn't help but read this title and think that for some reason Shaun had gone nutty and had something against Gonk's. "Gonk-proof" indeed. DaveE (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Wow. I'm genuinely impressed. You sir, rock. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Rick Hallman" <legodude725@removeaol.com> wrote in message news:Go8t5n.6EJ@lugnet.com... (...) Ya see thats the beauty of it. Only after the name was created by Shaun and embraced by other fans did Lucasfilm endorse it. This was made even more (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Wow! That was you? I thought it was a Lucasarts backstage nickname or somethin. :D go figure. ALL HAIL GONK! Rick (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Jon Palmer" <jpalmer@oklahoma.net> wrote in message (...) First post in alt.toys.lego: (URL) if RTL is a ghost town then ATL is possitively eerie. -Jon -- | The Galactic Shipyard - (URL) My website - (URL) BrickBay Store - (URL) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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(...) Apparently, some of the posts haven't "made it" for some reason--I don't know why. I can state this because a lot of my posts have gone missing, posts that I know I made--maybe they went under pseudo- nyms, but I KNOW that I made more than 7 (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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That was YOU??!! If this is true, (and it looks that way) then I must say that I feel like I am in the presence of greatness. Wow. :^D -Jon (You??!!) -- | The Galactic Shipyard - (URL) My website - (URL) BrickBay Store - (URL) Sullivan" (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Please forgive my enthusiasm, but Jon's post meant something very special to me :) You see, about 8 years ago I made a post to a Star Wars usenet group, coining the term "Gonk" to refer to the two-legged power droid that shows up in every (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce, lugnet.off-topic.fun) !
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(...) Here's my first post to Usenet (I thought I had started using it earlier, but I guess not): (URL) here's my first post on politics: (URL) my first post to RTL (on my Birthday no less): (URL) my first net communication about LEGO is on Lugnet I (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I don't know anything about how German motorcycles actually were used in WWII, but from my own limited military experience doing my national service in the Norwegian army, I can imagine how they might have been used. Often see them with a sidecar (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.build.military)
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