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(...) Shouldn't that be "The Swearing Officiating Board" (S.O.B.)? Matt (LOL, BTW!) (23 years ago, 14-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Dear Mr. Courtney, It has come to our attention that you have used an expletive-deleted string that could not possibly correspond to any known foul word. As we pride ourselves in knowing EVERYTHING about foul words, we hereby request a (...) (23 years ago, 14-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, you could always answer "Set K-8"... I wonder if I would have gotten into LEGO earlier had I seen something like this. Which issue of the Alumni magazine was the article in? I'll have to look and see if I still have it. We had Genericon (...) (23 years ago, 14-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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So......the value of an RPI education is FINALLY made clear. I've been wondering for the past 20 years or so....... A retired BSMgtE (no point in being a CivE in the late 70's)who's been living off his Fine Arts degreed wife for the last (...) (23 years ago, 14-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Awww...www!! I am assigning you all the gloating rights possible! You were the luckiest man on campus! I love West Hall! I would probably go insane trying to model all the twisty little passages accurately! Did you have a ghost minifig inside? (It (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) me (...) in (...) (URL) Yeah that was me :-). Of course the links in that 2 1/2 year old message no longer work but you can find it here. (URL) these are the important things. (...) I think you have just won yourself a commemorative GONK (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) *blush* Awww, c'mon guys ... you're embarrassing me ... Ok, how about: "I birthed GONK, and boy, am I tired" ;) on second thought ... -s (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ahh, you guys all went a couple of years too early! The graduation speaker in 1996 was Peter Eio, who was at that time president of LEGO US. I never actually saw the speech, but it made for a great spring! LEGO donated about 20 K8's of (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Now, if we could only spin that lint into Lego bricks :P Mel (always wondered about that lint thing) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "Putting the GONK into Power Droids since 1993"?? Bravo Shaun. // dave (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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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