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Re: Lego club unhelpful answers for kids.
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lugnet.lego
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Tue, 13 Apr 2004 01:16:37 GMT
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrnc4489b.1vs.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu...
> So, I was looking at <http://club.lego.com/ask/Default.asp?x=x>. It's a
> place for kids to send in questions to be answered by "The Amazing Redini".
> Okay, so it's obviously not a extremely formal QA area, but it does have
> lots of interesting facts -- for example, the bit about 84 different colors
> currently being produced. Each page shows a random selection of previous
> answers. If you reload enough, you'll eventually get the one I got:
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> Could you please give me a list of all the retired LEGO sets?
> -- Adam,11,United States
>
> And the answer:
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> I tried to put a list together for you, Adam. But as you might know,
> retired LEGO sets go to Florida, where they sit on the beach and play
> "Go-Fish" all afternoon and talk about the "good old days." Once in a
> while, they play some golf (but they're always getting run over by the
> carts). If I hear from any, I'll tell them to call you.
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> Cute, but in fact, as we all know, is that there's several excellent places
> to find that information -- say, for example, <http://guide.lugnet.com/>.
They ran that specific Q&A in one of the LEGO Club Magazines. BTW, whatever happened to Jack the LEGO Maniac? Did LEGO somehow
find a disembodied head with a turban a better mascot than a LEGO addict that, *gasp!* uses his {imagination} to build new things
from lego sets?
--
Markham Carroll
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