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Well, I downloaded the ISO images this morning and burned them and figured I'd give it a shot, see if Mandrake would detect and work with everything on my laptop including my wireless nic. And it did! Now I'm up and running and fairly impressed. (...) (23 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) No, 'cause that book is actually good. (And would have made a good movie, too. Shame.) (...) Ok, that _does_ count. (23 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I probably would. But where does it all come from? Just what generates the gravity? And I think the crew were mostly traveling asleep/frozen. And they were revived for docking and such, I think. (...) Is that a Star Wars movie? I can't really (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) barnesandnoble.com has it in stock. (URL) buy now! :^) ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (23 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) think that I can find any, here in Turkey..:-( Selçuk Selçuk (23 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) YOUR married! To Mrs Fleebnork I take it, or has she kept her maiden name? Ha Ha Ha (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) T2, eh? I always thought the Sarah Connor from T1 was stronger, for giving up so much of her life in order to preserve it. The one from T2 was just...psycho. A good kind of psycho, tho. :-, (...) Barbara and I found out we both grok B5, and (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I love my wife. Her two favorite movies are Aliens and Terminator 2. She admires the strong women... but I think it's cool because we can geek over the same movies :^D ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It was a blanket statement, I should of course have said "can" gossip, I try to avoid sweeping statements as their pretty useless. (...) That was actually the point of the thread. (...) Paul reiser's appearance in the film has always struck me (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You're right, I'm definitely an off-topic.geek lurker. I've probably posted to o-t.geek a total of four or so times. But you're wrong about the math's geek part. Really, I'm NOT a geek at all. I'm just your average sedated-- oops, I mean (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yep. Makes me wonder what kind of welcome they received upon landing. What kind of welcome would you get? "Hi! Errr...the out-of-control capital-class starship you ditched somewhere this side of Mars just slammed into Africa, thereby (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, but they were pirates and mercenaries with hearts-of-gold ;^) james (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ignore that bit I searched for 'Cambron' in the wrong place. (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What? (...) You still haven't added anything to the thread about Aliens. (...) Maggie you've only posted four times in as many months so I reckon your a Lurker. I think your a math's geek who doesn't post enough to be a Lugnet Geek. So you (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Steve, I'm shocked! How could you forget Richie Rich? Or was it Home Alone II? I don't know--he was in _something_ with Macauley Culkin. Dave! (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Tim Curry's done stuff besides Rocky Horror? Wow... Steve (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) :) (...) Should I take this opportunity to say I resemble the nasturtium...? Nah.... (...) Mmphh-- [covering virtual mouth with virtual hand] Maggie C. (I'm going to stay out of this... I'm going to stay out of this... I'm going to...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) He's been in a few good movies, though, too. Okay, well, one. (The Hunt for Red October; Curry played the doctor/only surviving officer not "in" on the plan) (...) Probably just Sturgeon's Law in action. If you take roles in enough movies, 10% (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The difference here is that Keanu Reeves didn't have to act, he could just be himself and recite lines. :) I loved Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. But I like really bad movies. (...) I think Curry is generally under-rated, as well. Probably (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think geeking gives these exchanges a bad image. Women get together and gossip, get a group of men togther and they'll talk about the mechanics of something, it's only natural. This thread maybe a discussion about things that are fictional (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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