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(...) Check. (...) Check. (...) Huh? Thought that was a *beverage*. Reminds me of my college buddy who returned from a semester in England with a penchant for heavy beers-- "if you can't drink it with a fork, it's no good..." (...) Or that one (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Cool! We APP nuts are a rare breed! (...) It is an *awesome* album! I found out about it through a web site some years ago and special ordered it. What a weird deal that was. Same band members, same format, same sound, but *not* an "Alan (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm a total Alan Parsons nut. If you want an album that really sticks with you, seek out the Alan Parsons Project album that isn't an APP album; it's called "Freudiana." It's still my favorite, and it was the last AP/EW collaboration. But it (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Chocolate Peanut Butter Coffee Oh, wait, those are the three foods I would want.... The trouble is, I know my favorite albums so well I can play them in my head, so it might be worth choosing something else. Course, you'd have to hope you (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah "Turn of a Friendly Card" is up there on my list. Also like "The Seekers" but which album? Think about it later... ROSCO (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah, picture a guy in a red shirt, with white hat and pants, pedalling on a bamboo bikish/generator. The professor could build a nuclear generator out of 2 coconut shells and a string but couldn't fix a 3 foot hole in a boat! (some comedy (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) For me, one would have to be from Alan Parsons Project (my all-time favorite), but *which* one... Others require more thought-- you can't rush into these types of decisions-- one never knows how long one will be deserted! BTW, Dave, in this (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) lol, my dad bought a DVD player and got that DVD free with the purchase-- he gave it to me:-) (...) hehe For some reason, I never got into the Eagles-- I think maybe it was because they were *too* popular (I remember complaining that "New Kid (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, John Neal writes: <snip> (...) If I had to peg it, COTC is it for me, tho their "Paris" album's my favourite listen. "Bon Soir Paris!..." ('specially the bit when he (I think it was Roger) went on about what he had for (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ah, yes, I remember getting my first all-in-one stereo-- 8 track player, record player (we weren't sophisticated enough back then to call it a turntable;-) and radio. And THEN I got a cassette recorder with "Doubly"[1]! The very first song I (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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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