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Second choice
re: Second choice
Eri
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8/11/2007 7:38:22 PM
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Heh, going to visit the Adamses?
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If you could go back in time
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Jody
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8/9/2007 3:17:45 PM
The Sixties??
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Lindy
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8/12/2007 3:48:16 PM
A journal of the plague years
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ER
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8/12/2007 7:10:27 PM
Social Revolutions
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Lindy
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8/12/2007 7:20:09 PM
Here's one for you ER
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Lindy
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8/12/2007 7:46:02 PM
Is that Alan Ginsburg in the background?
(n/t)
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ER
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8/13/2007 2:08:48 AM
re: Is that Alan Ginsburg in the background?
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Lindy
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8/13/2007 4:51:27 AM
but would I remember them this time?
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azstrummer
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8/12/2007 5:31:02 PM
The past- nice place to visit, but I wouldnt want to live there...
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R.L.
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8/11/2007 10:41:17 PM
I doubt our modern noses could handle the literal stink of the past.
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REB
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8/13/2007 1:28:14 PM
my youth
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azstrummer
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8/11/2007 8:31:55 PM
Up the line
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ER
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8/13/2007 2:28:27 PM
"Temporal linearity"
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Lindy
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8/13/2007 4:08:59 PM
Just because a sunrise at sea doesn't mean anything doesn't mean it can't be beautiful.
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ER
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8/13/2007 5:40:00 PM
If...what's this 'if' nonsense ;-)
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/11/2007 6:55:59 PM
Remember "The Traveller"?...on Star Trek:TNG
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Jody
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8/14/2007 4:44:31 AM
Depends
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FrankC
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8/11/2007 4:59:45 AM
I have it on good authority
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Eri
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8/11/2007 3:57:13 PM
That's why I want to take the gold :)
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FrankC
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8/11/2007 6:04:43 PM
Looking for Time Travelers
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REB
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8/10/2007 1:54:11 PM
re: Looking for Time Travelers
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Eri
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8/11/2007 4:01:23 PM
The physics argues against time travel and Faster than Light travel for many reasons- the two topics are very linked
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R.L.
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8/10/2007 8:49:20 PM
If the Universe splits that much
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Eri
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8/11/2007 4:04:58 PM
FTL, time travel and..religion, have something in common
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Raoul
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8/10/2007 9:05:05 PM
Absolutely....
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R.L.
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8/10/2007 11:12:26 PM
There was a movie, called 'The Grand Tour'
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R.L.
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8/10/2007 7:43:10 PM
re: There was a movie, called 'The Grand Tour'
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REB
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8/10/2007 8:05:03 PM
Fascinating
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Eri
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8/11/2007 6:05:24 PM
re: Fascinating
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REB
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8/13/2007 12:57:18 PM
'Thrice Upon a Time' by James P. Hogan is quite good...
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R.L.
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8/10/2007 7:00:40 PM
On the opposite end of the spectrum....
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R.L.
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8/10/2007 7:14:36 PM
re: On the opposite end of the spectrum....
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Eri
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8/11/2007 6:36:52 PM
He didn't do his history homework,
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ER
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8/10/2007 7:43:30 PM
I am not a history buff, but there were too many errors to count in that plot
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R.L.
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8/10/2007 7:54:45 PM
I should write such a lousy book as Andromeda Strain
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Eri
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8/11/2007 6:41:44 PM
"but the ending was a bit of a cop-out. "
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R.L.
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8/11/2007 10:04:15 PM
Congo was a joke
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Eri
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8/12/2007 12:22:28 AM
LOL
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Jody
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8/10/2007 7:32:40 PM
In A. C. Clarke's "light of other days"....
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R.L.
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8/10/2007 6:46:19 PM
re: In A. C. Clarke's "light of other days"....
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Eri
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8/11/2007 6:50:28 PM
New TWILIGHT ZONE Episode
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carl
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8/10/2007 6:50:20 PM
Before you start writing...
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ER
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8/10/2007 5:52:35 PM
How'd I miss that one?
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Eri
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8/11/2007 6:57:03 PM
He sci-fi's Phillip Roth
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ER
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8/11/2007 7:23:38 PM
Thanks! I've printed out the list
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Eri
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8/12/2007 12:24:27 AM
I always thought
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Jody
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8/10/2007 4:29:13 PM
The big problem escaping most SF writers about Time Travel..
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Raoul
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8/10/2007 2:32:25 PM
They got that part right in The Time Machine
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Eri
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8/11/2007 6:59:34 PM
I thought of that once...
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Fox
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8/10/2007 6:46:15 PM
and then along came the virus...
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Eri
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8/11/2007 7:01:01 PM
Eutrophication aggravation and its implications to the bogosphere.
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ER
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8/10/2007 6:13:43 PM
Sounds very much like where the Earth may be heading
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Eri
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8/11/2007 7:05:15 PM
Clarke's book? Or Benford's...
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Raoul
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8/10/2007 7:18:29 PM
Probably Benford's. Thanks
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ER
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8/10/2007 7:55:58 PM
re: The big problem escaping most SF writers about Time Travel..
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REB
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8/10/2007 3:02:47 PM
Isn't that cheating? :-0 :-)
(n/t)
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Raoul
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8/10/2007 3:50:36 PM
Nah, Artisitic License ......................... (Or ignorance/skipping of real science.)
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RNE
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8/10/2007 4:52:53 PM
LOL... but...
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Eri
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8/11/2007 7:19:28 PM
1976....
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Raoul
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8/10/2007 1:53:19 PM
re: If you could go back in time
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SteveS
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8/10/2007 1:35:01 PM
Wow! Nice memories indeed.
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Eri
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8/11/2007 7:24:54 PM
What a romantic!!..Lucky woman!!!
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Jody
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8/10/2007 4:25:35 PM
re:Lucky woman!!!
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SteveS
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8/11/2007 1:18:06 PM
Yesterday (lost my damn car keys)
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James Brown
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8/10/2007 3:52:55 AM
Well, since you asked
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Eri
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8/10/2007 3:37:30 AM
Purely hedonistic.
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RobVG
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8/10/2007 3:00:07 AM
God, I detest shoulder pads!!!!!!
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Eri
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8/11/2007 7:27:42 PM
re: Purely hedonistic....well me, too!
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Jody
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8/10/2007 4:11:49 AM
re: If you could go back in time
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gbaikie
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8/10/2007 12:54:09 AM
OK, another book for my list
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Eri
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8/11/2007 7:31:17 PM
Jesus's "death"
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azstrummer
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8/10/2007 12:08:24 AM
OOOH Guitar Man!!
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Jody
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8/10/2007 1:57:44 AM
re: If you could go back in time
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REB
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8/9/2007 8:45:32 PM
The BIG BANG
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carl
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8/9/2007 6:12:27 PM
Hmm, your atoms wouldn't last long!
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Raoul
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8/10/2007 5:45:27 PM
Time touring...
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podrock
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8/9/2007 5:29:09 PM
re: Time touring - on Fast Forward
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nick hoffman
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8/10/2007 7:15:33 PM
Fast rewind ... pause ... forward ... wait, go back!
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podrock
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8/11/2007 10:07:12 PM
Just don't step on any butterflies
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Fox
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8/10/2007 6:48:37 PM
Whel, Yu meyet beigh reyet, Awl beigh kair ful.
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pahdrx
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8/11/2007 9:33:28 PM
...diving in a Cambrian Sea
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ER
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8/9/2007 6:15:14 PM
now that's funny
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podrock
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8/9/2007 7:07:14 PM
With the requisite skills:
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Fox
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8/9/2007 5:19:38 PM
Second choice
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Fox
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8/10/2007 1:39:26 AM
re: Second choice
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Eri
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8/11/2007 7:38:22 PM
Just for a visit
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RNE
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8/9/2007 5:04:41 PM
re: Just for a visit. - Good picks, RNE.
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Marcia
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8/10/2007 9:19:19 PM
Well.....
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RNE
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8/10/2007 10:25:57 PM
re: Well..... Thanks for reading, RNE. I agree.
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Marcia
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8/10/2007 10:29:08 PM
Edison NEVER WORKED too hard
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carl
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8/10/2007 7:17:25 PM
Athens in the Golden Age
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ER
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8/9/2007 5:14:48 PM
Hey ER,
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podrock
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8/9/2007 5:21:01 PM
Quo Vadis?
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ER
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8/9/2007 5:49:24 PM
"Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out...."
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podrock
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8/9/2007 6:54:09 PM
Yes, it's on DVD
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Fox
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8/10/2007 1:28:00 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.