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(...) drive (...) Doesn't even come close. Here, the local Navy Reserve unit (HMCS Cabot) used to have a varity of boats/ships that were used for weekend trips/training. One famous occasion was a phonecall to RCC (Rescue Co-ordination Center) (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.pun, Erik Olson writes: Most Australian state names are boring apart from Tasmania, named after the explorer Abel Tasman. Before the English came sniffing around, when the Dutch and Portuguese made the mistake of landing on the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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OK, but it's a good clean kind of funny, Wagga-wagga. America has terrific native American place names too. I was visiting a cousin on Kinnickinnick St recently. You just have to drive over a bump in the road and it says its own name! Then there's (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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I've never been through Intercourse, but I see it on the map everytime we drive through Virginville. It gets less funny after you drive through Virgin Creek, Maiden Lake, and one other I forget. I'm learning some Australia geography by playing (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allan Bedford writes: <snip> (...) <snip> I dunno if that was intentional or not, but it sure made me snurk. :) James (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Careful, Wagga Wagga is from one of the native Australian (Aboriginal) languages, people tend to get a bit serious about these things. Town names in Australia are either replicas of English towns, eg. Brighton or Aboriginal names like (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) There used to be a Norwegian Hell as well. I have some postcards from Hell. James P (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Strangely, yes. It's only about fifty miles from home. There's actually a big sign that says 'Welcome to HELL' in big flaming letters, and it's always a laugh to see it covered in icicles in the winter :c) -Jeremiah- (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) I don't know for sure if this exists, but I believe there is a small town in Michigan called Hell. -dead (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Toadsuck, Arkansas Steve (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Intercourse Pennsylvania is one of my favorites. Eric Kingsley (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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You Australians have some of the silliest town names I've ever heard. Wagga- wagga is my favorite. I like Happy, Texas. (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) How about Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky... -Jeremiah- (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) I second Tom Stangl who said: (...) For me too, that worked very well. It enabled me to brouwse through several part categories very quickly after one another. I had some trouble to find certain part categories, but that was because I was used (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) KEYWORDS is an option that authors can include in their LDraw parts. So far, not many parts include KEYWORDS. For the /partsref/keyword/ page, I also compiled most of the words from the part names. The intent of the page is to let people look (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Good to see Larry got the cross-posting right... (...) Umm, I'm confused -- the detail pages are essentially the same. Sure, they've got the new LUGNET-ish headers and footers, and now the 73 LDraw categories are arranged into a 2-level (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) One BIG improvement would be to crossref parts with the sets they come in. I know getting the data is a huge undertaking, as it amounts to doing inventories of all the sets. But if inventories were actually used in this way I guess this would (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) I liked the keyword feature. But it's really a bunch of already-run searches - what's the use of that? Just use the search box. I had to outsmart it, though, to get it to list all parts. I used a q=* switch. But I think that's the point, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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