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Subject: 
The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 03:58:56 GMT
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Todd Trotter brought some "special" parts (from a batch of normal parts) to
our LUGCO meet today:

BEHOLD!  If you dare...

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02115.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02116.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02118.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02120.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02121.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02122.j
pg

I think it's obvious that only a truly precious and gifted child could
create such treasures.

--
-Jon
--
| The Shipyard - http://zemi.net/shipyard
| My Lego Creations - http://zemi.net/lego

   
         
     
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 04:03:51 GMT
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Those wrapped.  Just copy the "pg" on the end to the link and you're good to
go.

-Jon
--
| The Shipyard - http://zemi.net/shipyard
| My Lego Creations - http://zemi.net/lego

   
         
     
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 04:23:56 GMT
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Oh the pain, the horror, even Rich does a better job than this......;-)

Mark M

   
         
     
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 04:41:13 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
Todd Trotter brought some "special" parts (from a batch of normal parts) to
our LUGCO meet today:

those remind me of the monstrosities that Sid would create in the first Toy
Story movie (especially the horse with the screws for legs and the nail for
a tail.)

Those are just brutal, though the Blue Man Group minifigs are pretty funny.

Adrian
--
www.brickfrenzy.com

   
         
     
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 05:18:31 GMT
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Wow, and I thought the kid who sold me the lot that included pirates whose
arms had been smashed by pliers and whose heads and torsos had been shot
with a BB gun was warped....

Maggie C.

In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
Todd Trotter brought some "special" parts (from a batch of normal parts) to
our LUGCO meet today:

BEHOLD!  If you dare...

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02115.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02116.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02118.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02120.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02121.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02122.j
pg

I think it's obvious that only a truly precious and gifted child could
create such treasures.

--
-Jon
--
| The Shipyard - http://zemi.net/shipyard
| My Lego Creations - http://zemi.net/lego

   
         
     
Subject: 
Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Date: 
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 06:01:08 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
Todd Trotter brought some "special" parts (from a batch of normal parts) to
our LUGCO meet today:

BEHOLD!  If you dare...

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02115.jpg


Whew!  I need to sit down now.  Could someone please bring me a drink of water?

- Bob

    
          
     
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 06:05:04 GMT
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"Bob Parker" <cg47@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:H2Gu1w.1r6@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
Todd Trotter brought some "special" parts (from a batch of normal parts) • to
our LUGCO meet today:

BEHOLD!  If you dare...


http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02115. • jpg


Whew!  I need to sit down now.  Could someone please bring me a drink of
water?

Sure, how about some from my sink?
http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/sink.JPG

;-)

-Jon
--
| The Shipyard - http://zemi.net/shipyard
| My Lego Creations - http://zemi.net/lego

    
          
     
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:58:33 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
"Bob Parker" <cg47@hotmail.com> wrote in message
Whew!  I need to sit down now.  Could someone please bring me a drink of
water?

Sure, how about some from my sink?
http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/sink.JPG

;-)

-Jon


Uh - no.  I prefer my water not to be 'chunky'!

- Bob  :-)

   
         
     
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:34:54 GMT
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"Jon Palmer" <jon@zemi.net> wrote in message
news:H2GoFE.Cw6@lugnet.com...
<snip>
(hides in corner, shuddering)
--
Thanx~
Nicole Drumm MS
http://www.geocities.com/duelarcane1/
Brickshelf Account: drumm-family
Geekshelf Account: Drumm-Family
Bricklink Store: drumm_family or Drumm's Small Lots

   
         
     
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 14:05:30 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
Todd Trotter brought some "special" parts (from a batch of normal
parts) to our LUGCO meet today:

BEHOLD!  If you dare... • <snip>
I think it's obvious that only a truly precious and gifted child could
create such treasures.

Kids + LEGO is good.

Kids + LEGO + spray paint  is *bad*...

Just say "No" to spray paint!

JohnG, GMLTC
(Who will admit to mutilating a few pieces when he was a child!)

   
         
     
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
Todd Trotter brought some "special" parts (from a batch of normal parts) to
our LUGCO meet today:

Man, looking at that stuff just makes me happy I
never bought that box of legos at a garage sale
that looked as though they were placed a bit TOO
close to a furnace. Man, that was funny.

<<_Matt Hein_>>
Fellow lego enthusiast

   
         
     
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Mon, 16 Sep 2002 04:38:13 GMT
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I hate to say it, but the black panel in
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02118.jpg
looks pretty good - too bad Lego doesn't make it.


Jon Palmer wrote:

Todd Trotter brought some "special" parts (from a batch of normal parts) to
our LUGCO meet today:

BEHOLD!  If you dare...
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02118.j
pg

I think it's obvious that only a truly precious and gifted child could
create such treasures.

--
Tom Stangl
***http://www.vfaq.com/
***DSM Visual FAQ home
***http://ba.dsm.org/
***SF Bay Area DSMs

   
         
     
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:57:42 GMT
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Aww...that's so cute.  The way little Timmy DeSaud plays with this
toys....adorable.

-G

In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
Todd Trotter brought some "special" parts (from a batch of normal parts) to
our LUGCO meet today:

BEHOLD!  If you dare...

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02115.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02116.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02118.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02120.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02121.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02122.j
pg

I think it's obvious that only a truly precious and gifted child could
create such treasures.

--
-Jon
--
| The Shipyard - http://zemi.net/shipyard
| My Lego Creations - http://zemi.net/lego

   
         
     
Subject: 
Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Date: 
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:43:46 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:

I think it's obvious that only a truly precious and gifted child could
create such treasures.


That child will probably spend most of their adult life inside prison walls.

What it says about the parents is equally disturbing. Was there any evidence
that a call to Child Protective Services might be in order?

Paul Sinasohn - not a parent, but experienced in raising children...
LUGNET #115

   
         
     
Subject: 
Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:03:32 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
Todd Trotter brought some "special" parts (from a batch of normal parts) to
our LUGCO meet today:

BEHOLD!  If you dare...

I think you are all overracting.  Its a kid with some imagination beyond the
original intended purpose of the toy.  IMO, and I could be totally wrong, I
would suspect that it was the work of a 13-14 year-old having some fun with old
toys.  Now, those of you that have never:
- blown up anything up with a firecracker
- pulled the arms off your sisters dolls (or defaced it in any other way)
- pulled the wheels off your brothers trucks (or defaced it in any other way)
- pulled your cat by the tail
- pulled your dog by the tail
- basically destroyed one of your toys experimenting with tools (toy or adult)
- set any plastic toy on fire to see how it would burn
- painted one of your toys

..feel free to be repulsed.

I've seen infinitely worse garbage at garage sales.  Beheaded dolls, blown-up
trucks, stuffed animals with fingernail polish, rusty Erector sets, battery
operated toys corroded by battery leakage, etc.

    
          
      
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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"Ed "Boxer" Jones" <edboxer@aol.com> wrote in message
news:H2JDtw.7CM@lugnet.com...
I think you are all overracting.  Its a kid with some imagination beyond • the
original intended purpose of the toy.  IMO, and I could be totally wrong, • I
would suspect that it was the work of a 13-14 year-old having some fun • with old
toys.  Now, those of you that have never:
- blown up anything up with a firecracker
- pulled the arms off your sisters dolls (or defaced it in any other way)
- pulled the wheels off your brothers trucks (or defaced it in any other • way)
- pulled your cat by the tail
- pulled your dog by the tail
- basically destroyed one of your toys experimenting with tools (toy or • adult)
- set any plastic toy on fire to see how it would burn
- painted one of your toys

..feel free to be repulsed.

Mabye I am the only one, but I have to say that I have never done any of the
things listed.

On the other hand, the only "changes" that I find disturbing are the horses
and the shark.  Spray painting a toy is one thing.  Mutilating an "animal"
is another thing entirely.  I hope that this was only the work of an active
imagination, and not some other type of mentality.

-David

    
          
     
Subject: 
Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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"Ed \"Boxer\" Jones" <edboxer@aol.com> writes:
[...]
Now, those of you that have never:
- blown up anything up with a firecracker
Nope, never had access to fireworks as a kid (except for sparklers).

- pulled the arms off your sisters dolls (or defaced it in any other way)
Didn't have a sister.

- pulled the wheels off your brothers trucks (or defaced it in any other way)
Didn't have a brother.

- pulled your cat by the tail
My cat liked it.  (Really!)

- pulled your dog by the tail
No dog.

- basically destroyed one of your toys experimenting with tools (toy or adult)
Nope.

- set any plastic toy on fire to see how it would burn
Nope.

- painted one of your toys
Just those meant to be painted (models).

..feel free to be repulsed.

OK.

I've seen infinitely worse garbage at garage sales.  Beheaded dolls, blown-up
trucks, stuffed animals with fingernail polish, rusty Erector sets, battery
operated toys corroded by battery leakage, etc.

Yes, but LEGO is sacred!!

--Bill.

--
William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      Verbing weirds language.  --Calvin

    
          
     
Subject: 
Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Tue, 17 Sep 2002 04:58:01 GMT
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In lugnet.general, William R. Ward writes:
Nope, never had access to fireworks as a kid (except for sparklers).
Didn't have a sister.
Didn't have a brother.
My cat liked it.  (Really!)
No dog.
Nope.
Nope.
Just those meant to be painted (models).
OK.
Yes, but LEGO is sacred!!

Bill has just passed Ed's Childhood Purity Test.
(Somebody give him some fireworks... or something. A rotary tool.)

   
         
   
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Re: The most terrifying garage sale find of all time
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Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:01:02 GMT
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Sup' Everyone,

In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
Todd Trotter brought some "special" parts (from a batch of normal parts) to
our LUGCO meet today:

BEHOLD!  If you dare...

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02115.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02116.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02118.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02120.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02121.j
pg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jpalmer/LUGCO/september14th2002/dsc02122.j
pg

I think it's obvious that only a truly precious and gifted child could
create such treasures.
First of all, may we remember those legos for what they once were, and not
what they are today. Second, I'm scared to even think what was going on in
that kid's head at the time.
-Jon
Hasta La Vista, Sean

 

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