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(...) Yeah, kinda like Roger Hodgson leaving Supertramp for me... Tho I keep seeing Roger around Toronto on various shows 'n such--did he just put up his shingle in the GTA? So there's a debate for you--people who left 'big bands' and had successful (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) My favorite Fleetwood Mac era was when Bob Welch was with them. Must have been that phase of my childhood I spent in a bit of a fog. :-) I never cared too much for Bob Welch solo or FM before or after that. But then my favorite single FM song (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Darnit... I need to be on a train in 8 hours to go to Brickfest, yet here I am reconciling cashflows with a buncha other geeks can't leave work. No fun! (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm going to call upon semantics to save my weak argument. :) 1) I think it really comes down to how you define 'baseball'. Is it any game where a ball is hit with a stick or bat? Is it any ball game where players run from one station (base) (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Allan Bedford" <ExpertBuilder-DELET...otome.com> wrote in message news:GzCAM1.GF@lugnet.com... (...) good question :) I dont have access to dates, but its true most of the UK plays rounders, and certainly baseball is derived from rounders. A quick (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) As in, the game of 'baseball'? Or the game of 'cricket'? Or perhaps 'rounders'? For many years the story went that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, NY U.S.A. back in 1839. However the more recent prevailing belief is that a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Sorry to call you up on this one 4. Baseball originated in the UK. Cardiff in Wales (where I live - Hooray) and Liverpool in England. (unless I've been lied to all these years) Apart from that, yeah Canada is cool -- James Stacey ---...--- (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Found thins whilst cleaning up my e-mail... So, What Do Canadians Have to Be Proud Of? l. Smarties 2. Crispy Crunch & Coffee Crisp 3. The size of our Football Fields and one less Down 4. Baseball is Canadian. 5. Lacrosse is Canadian. 6. Hockey is (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jul-02, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I had one of those serial dreams where you believe you've awakened already. I had arrived at Brickfest early before anything was set up, and it was a computer faire in my junior high cafeteria. Next dream, I was awake and had nothing to do this (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wow, so close but yet so far... a dog on his back taco holder, now THAT's cool! (URL) of my favorite comics ever, which may shed more insight into my personality than I'd care that it did...) Peter (22 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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