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(...) If the show were short on publicity, it could be arranged. There was a town that renamed itself to launch a web site, what was that? In California, there is Tarzana, which changed its name (and claim to fame) in order to get Edgar Rice (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) A word-for-word translation of the same sentence from German to English would deliver the same result. So it's obiously your language Jonathan, which has a failure. ;-) And if you are of the opinion Germans have no sence of humor: just listen, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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I'm going to be silly, here so don't take me seriously. (...) Of course, a thing is a proper subset of itself, and thus can be said to "contain" itself. With the trend toward juniorisation continuing, how long before we actually get Burp Adventure (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Sets that contained this part. Not Sets that this part contained. (This statement says that the entire set is inside or contained by that one part.) I didn't laugh. In fact, I knew what you meant to say, so I didn't even notice the error until (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) No, I think that it's that he is laughing at the notion of a set contained in a part. Usually it's the other way round, parts are contained in sets... he's just laughing at your transposition typo, that's all. I think. ++Lar (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Yup. Michigan also has towns named Paradise, Christmas, Climax, Bad Axe (which at least some locals pronounce "b'dax", which is sort of weird all on its own), and Gaylord. There's about 10 miles between Alaska and Wyoming. Alaska's just north (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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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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