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Thank you, Calum, for putting so eloqently how mony of us feel about this ridiculous letter. Last time I checked, Lego is still a toy, not a commodity to be traded on the stock market. It's a toy, either build with it or don't, but quit whining (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) =) Dude, you've got a lot of pent-up emotion towards me.... Lets go over to lugnet.people.lgbt and get it on!!! Have your way with me, but just get it outta your system. ;) No, but seriously... You're creeping me out. It's kewl though. Peace, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Unfortunately it is not possible to stop anyone from spotlighting any post they want to, so that request is pointless. ROSCO (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Ouch. (...) It wasn't "just" posted on your forum. It was highlighted as "top story" on the homepage of this website. I am not a member of your forum, but I am a member of lugnet, and replied as such. If you don't want outsiders invading your (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It's true, I don't know Derek. I'm sure he's a nice guy. For all you know, I might be too. But Derek's last post wasn't "nice." My response was commesurate. (...) You criticize me, and yet you call me "obsessed", and lump me with quite a few (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) The point is this topic was brought into the .rtlToronto forum. The members that use the .rtlToronto forum by it's very nature will both read and comment on what's posted in this forum. I do believe that is what it is for. If this topic hadn't (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) You piqued my curiosity (google rules). According to (URL) "Hot 'N Juicy" is the property of Oldemark, LLC and licensed to Wendy's International, Inc. along with other classics..... "Great Biggie", " This Is A Burger Town Pretty Boy", "You (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) That reminds me, I wish I was Jeff right now, missing all this fun we've been having. Derek (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I agree with your reasoning, words aren't bad. It's all contextual. You can bet we're talking with people whose posts are inappropriate, trigger words or not. It's just that the ones with the f-bomb and such are only the most obvious. The (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I stumbled across an extra RCX remote controller. I know Iown 2, but I'm pretty sure I don't own 3, but I appear to have 3 in my basement right now. So if anyone is missing a remote, let me know--I'll bring it to Feb. dinner. It's probably Jeff VW's (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Hm... I used to be extremely fanatic about LEGO, but I've long ago gotten to the point that taking Lego seriously at all would mean getting depressed over it. I just don't care enough about the toy these days to give a...eh, this is a public forum. (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) That reminds me of a few moths ago when I used 'jackass' in a post. It's a word that has been used on 'regular TV' (not cable or after 9 p.m.) but I was offered a polite warning via e-mail. So, on the one hand I'm all for common sense (my (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I thnk we really have to stop misinterpreting people around here. Maybe there's an ESL thing going on, but I know I'm not in the 'anti-bringbackoldcolours' camp. I would definitely state, for the record, that if TLC chose to bring back old (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Looks like it belongs along side of Wendy's "Hot-n-Juicy". Do they still use that ad phrase? -Patrick (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hey, sure! You can be a conscientious objector or a draft dodger up here :) (...) I just checked all of my Lego catalogs (hermetically sealed in a hyperbaric semianechoic storage chamber--actually, stored in a plastic bucket) and the oldest I (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I know the difference between appropriate and inappropriate as well. I'm focusing in on this so called "pofanity" issue that the LUGNET admins seem to circling around like vultures waiting for prey. If they are not then I apologize for making (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) And my point remains the same - if someone posts a message titled "Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs!" to lugnet.trains, and I happen to be browsing lugnet.trains, I am going to assume that the letter is (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm sorry, I didn't realize that by posting on lugnet, I was pointing a finger in anyone's face. Please forgive my ignorance! Perhaps that explains all the foul language and ill will coming from the anti-bringbackoldcolors camp. I promise that (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Thanks Kelly, One does not have to be college educated to be able to figure out if one has violated the ToS. I couldn't recite a single item from the ToS, because it has been so long since I read it. But I know the difference between crossing (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) This sort of highlights something that I wonder about. Are smaller, out-of-the way groups more suitable for otherwise questionable behavior? With things like off-topic.debate, it's skipped by default, so there's less chance that (say) a kid (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.admin.terms)
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