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Of course! It should have been appearent that they would be protecting a decoy. Not too apparent - otherwise the General or her followers would catch on, yes? ;) It may be that the General only likes them dumb and loyal, but I suspect that she's a smarter commander than that. So, after the Professo...

Wow... At 27, no wonder Kath's worried about being involved in the local club... I'm not sure I understand - is this about keeping up appearances? Stu's twenty? I thought he was a College freshman... I find it hard to believe he and Guth lived on the same campus in tandem without meeting and explod...

On 2002-04-19 23:44, Shatteredtower wrote: Couldn't resist, could you? :razz: But the answer to your question is my standard for judging people is how they relate to all people - the ones they loathe as well as the ones they like. Then I'd say that this standard is incomplete - because it must also...

On 2002-04-19 14:59, Muttley wrote: My question, then, (should you choose to accept it), is "Is 'damn' a swearword, where you live?" By itself, yes. To say "Damn you!" or just "Damn!" is going well beyond saying, "Die!" when you think about it from a certain perspective. If you believe in resurrect...

On 2002-04-19 23:56, lordjulius wrote: Railroads were, in fact, one of the first applications of the steam engine, which was invented in the mid-to-late 1700s in England. While the applications for it would have been more limited by virtue of limited knowledge of metal working, the steam engine was...

On 2002-04-19 15:49, Gormenghastly wrote: Shatteredtower wrote: Not jumping on you, but those best qualified to decide that may be those who died, and those who would otherwise have been slaves. I can agree with you on that. Unfortunately the first group won't be able to shed much light on the issu...

On 2002-04-19 03:29, Aris Katsaris wrote: <g> So the standard you use to judge people is "How do they relate to Stu?" He's not the center of all creation, you know... :wink: Couldn't resist, could you? :razz: But the answer to your question is my standard for judging people is how they relate to al...

On 2002-04-19 01:13, Tom the Fanboy wrote: Stu actually called it "The War of Northern Aggression"!!!! I can't believe it! Why not? No, seriously, why not? Especially after the hot debate on the topic! Funny, I don't remember Stu posting on the subject. :wink: Now I don't know if this specifically ...

On 2002-04-17 08:37, lordjulius wrote: Because they wanted to defend their "peculiar institution" (and that's their word for it!)... I'm not going to argue this entire issue - I don't know the material all that well, for the most part. But I did want to point out that you are distorting your argume...

On 2002-04-18 06:07, scrwysqrl wrote: Wrong year for the AWB/Rivington Men handing AK-47s to the Confederacy...That book takes place 1864-68. This is 1862. Most likely they have to make the 3 Cigars and the plans and hand them over to a Union Soldier who is actually LITERATE. Literacy rates in the ...

On 2002-04-18 13:42, Gormenghastly wrote: Before anyone jumps on me, I'm against slavery, but I'm also against war, so even if I had sorted through the contrary opinions and evidence well enough to decide for myself whether the Civil War was mainly about ending slavery or not, I'd still have to fig...

On 2002-04-18 13:57, lordjulius wrote: They're less likely to be educated, for one thing, and they do often feel the need to express their hostilities on someone. It was the poor and working class Germans who swelled the ranks of the Nazi party in its early days, for instance. It's not an absolute ...

On 2002-04-15 20:02, FrustratedPilot wrote:
Gawd Rest the Soul of Jon Erik Hexum.

Forgive me for being a tad bitter about that name - you see, nobody in high school seemed to notice or care that Indira Gandhi had been assassinated the same day.

On 2002-04-07 10:19, Maccabee wrote: I owe John Ringo an apology. He does three things Heinlein never did. 1) He shows the cost of war in terms of the emotional impact, not just a "look what those bastards did to us, let's kill 'em back!" approach. Though that's there too. To be fair, isn't that pa...

On 2002-04-06 19:39, Bushipunk wrote: Sure, you outgrow crushes... But it can take a long, long time. I myself had a particularly stupid and predoomed crush that lasted something like four years, and I still think about her sometimes. It was actually spending more time away from her, and meeting my...

On 2002-04-06 21:40, wish wrote:

-Wish
Seperated from Will by only two little letters.

Those had better be very strategically placed letters, then - don't want to break any obscenity laws.

I'd have responded sooner, but the boards kept jamming up on mye.

And IRC is out of the question for me. But that's neither here nor there.

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On 2002-04-06 02:09, Doublespeak wrote:

Second place to a plant huh? That person must have been the bud of many plant jokes for a while.

Sigh... Any chance that everyone else leaves this one alone?

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On 2002-04-05 09:05, Maccabee wrote:
Meant to do this earlier, but--

I'm sorry, but I can't resist (time travel stories and a double post combined are too much temptation) - you, did do it earlier, Maccabee, you did!