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The359
The bitch is back
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Cheeseburger

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Me: "Why don't you live in Hong Kong?"
Rachel Roberts: "Hong Kong? Nah. Oh, but we can live in China! Yeah, China has great Chinese food!"

(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)

Mustang Class Starship Development Project


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Aethelwer
Frank G
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Nein! Man kann "Ich bin ein Berliner" sagen und bedeutet einen Berlinwohner. Ich glaube.

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"I remember my mum telling me 'don't wear that jacket, it doesn't go with your top.' And I said 'Screw you mum, I'll wear what I'll like'. And then I went and changed tops." - Liam Ka--thingy


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First of Two
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Kis mir im tocha.

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"Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ty Kwan Leap. Approach me, that you might see." -- The Master



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TSN
I'm... from Earth.
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Frank: They way I was taught it, when Germans talk about where they're from, they speak in adjectives (hence, "Ich bin berliner" or "I am Berlinian", or "Berlinite", or "Berlinese, or whatever the word would be in English). Whereas, if one says "Ich bin ein Berliner", it means "I am a Berliner", and a Berliner is a type of doughnut.

But, then, my high school German teacher was a moron, so I can't be sure that's true. Where are all the native German-speakers 'round here, anyway? Bernd? Fitz? Anyone? *L*

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Aethelwer
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My high school German teacher (a native Frankfurter ) said that "Ich bin ein Berliner" is perfectly valid for someone from Berlin to say, so that's what I've been going by...

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The359
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My German teacher told our class about the jelly donut crap too, and says "Ich bin Berliner" is correct

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Me: "Why don't you live in Hong Kong?"
Rachel Roberts: "Hong Kong? Nah. Oh, but we can live in China! Yeah, China has great Chinese food!"

(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)

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Michael Dracon
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The sink.

(If you're thinking something like 'HUH?', my high school German teacher's name was Tissink)

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Buffy: "See, this is a school. And we have students and they check out books and then they learn things."
Giles: "I was beginning to suspect that was a myth."
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Nim
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The Cell.

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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram


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Starbuck
"Replicate some marmalade, Commander - helm control is toast!"
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Anton van Leuwenhoek
(inventor of the microscope and the first person to see cells)

[on the jelly donut thing - my old German teacher showed us a video which included JFK's speech, so I got it from him ]

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Michael Dracon
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Lion

(Are you sure it isn't 'Leeuwenhoek'? The name is clearly Dutch, but 'Leuw' isn't. 'Leeuw' is the Dutch word for lion.)

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Buffy: "See, this is a school. And we have students and they check out books and then they learn things."
Giles: "I was beginning to suspect that was a myth."
- Buffy: The Vampire Slayer


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Starbuck
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Daktari

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The Talented Mr. Gurgeh
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likely to end the thread.

PS Ritten, what the hell does your sig mean?

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Ritten
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LOL.... It is a half-assed ACII starship...
** for naceles
.. for the wings/pylons
*** for the saucer

it could also be JeffK's Tokyo....

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TSN
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Altair: Yes, the name is "van Leeuwenhoek"...

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"What he did to that walrus gentle-man was inexcusable."
-T. Herman Zweibel on "Mr. Woodrow Wood-pecker", The Onion, 7-Nov-2000


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Nim
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Lieutenant Els!

(see if you can spot this one)

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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram


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