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  Re: Silly Town Names
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: A brick in page 10 of #7777
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: A brick in page 10 of #7777
 
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)
 
  Re: A brick in page 10 of #7777
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: A brick in page 10 of #7777
 
(...) 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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