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Subject: 
Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:40:02 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Todd Lehman writes:
I'll toss out a few random ideas off the top of my head...
[...snip...]

OK, all of those were too cute or trite...  But I'm excited now --
I just thought of a not-too-obscure word whose second meaning (according
to Merriam-Webster) goes:

   a mixture of diverse elements

and which also evokes visions of a related word which means

   to mix into a confused or disordered mass

in its verb form and

   a mass of things mingled together without order or plan

in its noun form.

--Todd



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  Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
 
(...) Second word is 'jumble'. 2222222fffaf33aweeee Hello, cat on the keyboard. (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
 
And did you want to tell us what this wonderful word IS?? :-) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
 
If it's the word I found, it was pretty obscure to me. But it has some not-at-all-obscure negative variants. Steve (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
 
(...) Sure, I don't see why not -- if there's enthusiasm toward it and if a sensible name could be picked. It certainly belongs in the .market.* hierarchy as it's purely an aftermarket person(s)-to-person(s) trading thing. I'll toss out a few random (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)

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