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Article #93808Re: BCM:G is a Whole New Title!
From: Lemming
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:51
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:51
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Bret Ripley <rip...@olywa.net> wrote: >In article <dbkh8vorfmqlrvd9p...@4ax.com>, >l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk says... >> "FLY135" <FLY...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >"Lemming" <l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message >> >news:qfbd8vc5r59ost4g33hlimfbgmhemp1j6p@4ax.com... >> >> >> >> I still think he's Derek. >> >> >> > >> >He can't be Derek because he's mostly right. >> >> But ... Derek always was "mostly right". It was just that when he is >> wrong, he is so spectacularly wrong. That's what makes him so much >> fun. >> >> I bet he even thinks the "War Against Iraq" is a good idea. > >It's *not* the "War Against Iraq," genius-boy. It's "Operation Iraqi >Freedom." Lots of time and effort has gone into this title -- the least >you could do it try to remember it. Hell, we even had posters and >special stationery printed. Noted. I'll try to remember next time. But since I'm a fuddle-headed surrender monkey with a brain the size of a peanut, it'll be hard. Where was I? >> I wonder where he'll be in the "War Against Syria". > >That'll be a tough sell. "Operation Syriaqi Freedom" would have low >brand-name recognition. Also, "Syria" sounds kinda like 'syrup' . . . >just not evil enough. Do you think we could get them to change their >name to something like "Nazi Germany?" That might work. -- Lemming Curiosity *may* have killed Schrödinger's cat.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!peernews3.colt.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!du-008-0213.freeuk.COM!not-for-mail From: Lemming <l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim Subject: Re: BCM:G is a Whole New Title! Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 23:51:48 +0100 Lines: 43 Message-ID: <ou5k8vcg1bav7tbc9pla5ve4fcupu4gd6b@4ax.com> References: <dvwga.1895$Hx.900847@twister.socal.rr.com> <8c6cbb0d.0303290100.7baf2ab6@posting.google.com> <6Ipha.14382$Hx.6001565@twister.socal.rr.com> <qfbd8vc5r59ost4g33hlimfbgmhemp1j6p@4ax.com> <SfGha.3267$lZ2.290188@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <dbkh8vorfmqlrvd9ppvalp0mdlcs58redd@4ax.com> <MPG.18f281297c6506fa989782@news.ywave.com> Reply-To: l3m...@freeuk.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: du-008-0213.freeuk.com (195.8.75.213) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1049237156 4355990 195.8.75.213 (16 [16776]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit