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Re: Space Pirates
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Mon, 15 May 2000 14:26:48 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Richard Parsons wrote:
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> > Evening all,
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> > I haven't been as vocal here as I would normally be, having been a bit
> > engrossed in .loc.au.nsw.syd matters
> > http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/stud/ ).
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> Sorry about that whole Olympics hype thing. We'll try to see that it's
> extracted without too much associated damage afterwards, but those McDonald's
> people can be rather tenacious--we just weren't the same after 1984, and it • was
> on the other side of the country.
Not to us left-coasters born and bred in de briar patch. I even have a
complete set of Australian 1984 olympic pins.
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> On the other hand, the Soviet Bloc backing out made sure that we preteens made • a
> fortune in free food (should I put that in scare quotes?) because of all the
> medals 'Muricuns took home. Thanks, Premier Andropov!
Somebody who knows how to pronounce it correctly! Gotta say that "R" in
'Muricans so far at the back of your throat you can swallow it.
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> > We're heading towards a bit of a BrikWars
> > http://www.teleport.com/~rayhawks/brikwars.htm ) conflagration at the next
> > LegOz in June, and we're all busy massing armies. We are each of us
> > approaching this out of our own themes, so in my case, the Sea Princess has
> > been refitted with stardrive, impulse engines, four great landing legs, a
> > communications array, and several death ray thingies. Captain Ahab (oblique
> > descendant of the Great Captain Ahab of the Pequad) and his especially cross
> > piratical space dudes have taken her, renamed her the Saucy Sue, and are
> > sallying forth for battle.
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> No pirate ship is truly complete without death ray thingies. At least that's • my
> opinion. All of those poor pirates throughout history, they never knew they
> were sailing incomplete ships. It's sort of like the poor australopithecine • who
> just never understood how squalid his (or her, if we call her Lucy) life was
> without a turnip twaddler. I think I'm going to cry.
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> > I don't plan to post in .space (not my scene, and anyway I have entirely
> > enough scenes as it is ;-), but I wondered if there would be any interest in
> > this stuff here. I'll be doing a little scanning tonight. You guys want
> > updates or are we .pirates entirely wet navy focussed?
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> If this is an issue, perhaps you can lick the hull before taking photographs. • I
> for one have no objections, mostly because I violate another possible law of • the
> .pirate with Heretical Steel Ships and I'm not eager to start a spate of • purism
> here. Purism, well, it's for those law-obsessed folks, and As We All Know, • it's
> .town that's full of policemen, firefighters, and show-jumpers with • briefcases.
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> > I for one discover that it is the whole life and lifestyle thing, whether
> > played out in space or in the south west Pacific.
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> Or in Ontario. (Beer Pirates...arrrr) You know, I need to see "Ice Pirates"
> again. I'm not quite sure why, but I do.
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> best
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> LFB
No! Not Ice Pirates! I'll watch anything else but that - well, maybe I'll
suffer through it again rather than see Battlefield Earth.
Bruce
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