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  did you take the day off work??
 
Dave, Jeff W, a few days ago during a small light snow fall you both droned on and on about how you live 3 min away from work, but it took you 8 hours to drive in. Due to the snow. so, with the road being the way they are; did you guys even go to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) While I am neither Dave or JeffVW, bad weather typically hits us harder out here because in the country a lot of the routes don't get ploughed or heavily traveled! You lucky ducks in Toronto have the benefit of at least high traffic flow and (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) At work, and think I can fluff the day away... But so many folks who have nothing better to do with their time are now calling me up and saying, "Can you fix this or that..." Grr!!! My day of fluffage is looking not so good right now. It took (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) :) Yep, I'm working from home today.... Really I am!!!! I just had my computer freeze up on me, and Lost about an Hours worth of work, so I'm having a Great Day!!! Jeff VW You know how hard it is to type with a dog sleeping on your lap with (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) <snip> I want a dog!!! I can't wait 'til I get my own house--dog and my own lego room... Dave K -at work, listening to zepplin on Q107 (www.q107.com) and hungry... (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) I don't!!! (...) The lego room on the other hand I could use. Derek (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
Hey I can post again. :-) I tried replying to Iain's Airwolf post, and how disturbing it was to see Jan-Michael Vincent, and Ernest Borgnine on a fair ride. However after several tries I never received authorization messages for any of the posts. (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) Do you know how hard it is to sleep when your bed keeps typing? Jeff E (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) You think that that would be an issue, but she does not seem to mind at all... Jeff VW (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) DEATH!!!...!!! SCREAMED, BANGED KNITORO AND MEYOBOARD (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) A lot of the rides have bizzaire themes that I think are misinterpruted by the Europeans as to what North American life is like. There is for example a KMG/Tivoli "Remix" called Techno Power that has a backdrop of an American flag, a DJ giving (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) Every once in a while I think that Iain operates on a higher plane than the rest of us... It takes me a while to 'dumb down' and translate Iains posts so I can understand them. Keep posting Iain! Dave K (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) dave your right. sometimes when iain dose stuff like this I really have to stop what I'm doing and add all the missing words. for example: this. --------snip-------- DEATH!!!...!!! SCREAMED, BANGED KNITORO AND MEYOBOARD ---...---end---...--- (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry writes: <snip> (...) The pilot and co-pilt of Airwolf from the television series Stringfellow Hawk--cool name... Dave K (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  I started work earlier today...
 
Right now I work for my dad, i was going to get up at 6:30 AM, but he got me up at 5AM since we were losing electricity from time to time. And sure enough wjile working the power went out twice came back minutes later. So then I proceed to go (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) I translated it into-- "I was laughing so hard that I knocked my computer--'death' (as in shame on you) to you for making me laugh so hard!!" Iain--one dapper dude who has a wonderful way of saying things... (...) I have doubts about all of (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) I seriously just clapped. That was fabulous. "KNITORO AND MEYOBOARD" was an attempt at typing "Monitor and Keyboard", meaning, I banged my fist on both the monitor and keyboard, because I was laughing so hard. (...) You should have had doubts (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) I Had the Keyboard part... it was the Mnitoro that was confusing me... Jeff VW The Dog is sleeping on my lap again... THANK GOD she IS a lap dog.... (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: I started work earlier today...
 
your a farmer. C O O L !!!!! the list of professions at RTL really run the range. so from the cool file we have: a farmer a rocket scientist an industrial robot designer an artist various computer geeks A high level banker type RTL has the making (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: did you take the day off work??
 
(...) Yeah, if it's like Marmaduke... lap, well, not so much... Dave K <snip> (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: I started work earlier today...
 
(...) I say we set up rtlTrain 4.5 at Chris's shop so he won't be so bored--he can watch the trains go rond and round all day :) Dave K -who wants to relieve Chris's boredom by suggesting cool wonderful tings like LEGO trains! (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: I started work earlier today...
 
the following ideas are dumb: (...) Chris BLAH (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Spoke too soon....
 
Power went out and stayed out, milking cows on the generator. Powering this computer as well... grr... (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: Spoke too soon....
 
(...) your milking cows with a computer? oh, sorry, I mis read that. still waiting to be entertained! BTW were is your farm? Chris Why do solar calculators have an off button? (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: Spoke too soon....
 
(...) He just might be, if he has the LELY Astronaut, another fine product from the Netherlands! I wrote a huge report after seeing the very first one in Canada with my dad (he used to work for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture). It is the only (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: Spoke too soon....
 
(...) I love google (URL) do solar calculators have an off button? (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: Spoke too soon....
 
(...) Actually... All the milk produced is recorded by a computer and $75000 of electronics. The cows waer tags with a transponder inside. The milk parlour picks up the cows ID, and then records how much milk is produced. It can also alert the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: Spoke too soon....
 
"Gerard Steenbeek" <interdutch2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:HCu41r.1p3F@lugnet.com... (...) with (...) perfect (...) I'll have to look into this again, but that's not my understanding; the engineers from LELY explained how the machine (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: Spoke too soon....
 
(...) I was going to be crass and make a comment about how I like my cows flexible. then I thought better of it and I just wont!! in lego news, I am building the paper folder. its HARD. I've got it so that a set of rollers move the paper along, and (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: I started work earlier today...
 
(...) and a cough...security/quasi-military guard...cough Ben... (22 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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