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(...) Dan (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Perhaps the person who did all this is convinced that he / she can create models that are on par with or better than "official" releases. All this hubbub would then serve to affirm this persons belief. Awww...that's too psycho-babblish! (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Plus ... a pack with only three track pieces in it? What is this ... "Train Polybags"? (...) Because if it wasn't for those annoying kids they would have gotten away with it! Let's give Jeff his Scooby Snacks:) I think they might have done it (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Boy, I wish that reasoning worked in real life... I've got a lot of elements I only have one or two of which I'd love to be able to get more of... (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I find it quite a bit strange if someone went to _these_lengths_ to make an April fool's joke, and didn't even get the date correct! ;-) True, it may have been April 1st in New Zealand when it was posted, but certainly not in Germany! And why (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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"Gianluca Morelli" <moebiusring@yahoo.it> wrote in message news:FsApKC.6v2@lugnet.com... (...) Vediamo come va questo... Se è un pesce d'Aprile noi non potremmo che farne una pessima imitazione ;-) Ciao Carlo. (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Biggest LEGO Maniacs (was: First draft of the Lego-Modular Train layout standards posted..)
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(...) You're probably right Steve. I first found out about RTL/LUGNET in July 1998, although I have been out of the Dark Ages since June 1979. I also think that there are a lot of European collectors who can't speak English (well), who don't (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.trains, Will Hess writes: <snip> (...) I am not an expert on either trains or any of this other stuff, but it looks to me that the spots that look like cuts may be "jaggies" introduced by a scanner. I have seen similar effects produced on (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This could just be the set-up, with the obligatory "April Fool's!" comming tomorrow... Jeff (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Name: Daniel Poole Age: 29 Live: Statesville Work: Iredell County Inspections Department Interests: Collecting anything related to LEGO that interests me. I have been collecting since my first set (#115) in the mid 70's Have not done much since high (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.nc)
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Dear Lego, I'm an AFOL. Use Avid or Adult fr the A, your choice. Since I've left what we refer to out here as my dark age, I've collected well over 100,000 individual elements through purchasing at retail stores, eBay, and gifts. I am not a (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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(...) So should the finger pointing start ... ? I point to ... : The Guild of Bricksmiths[tm], a “band of LEGO Fans who have become concerned at the dearth of high quality kits available and decided to do something about it”... -- pn ;) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) standard image processing techique(sorta) for change detection. It's used a lot in ecological and archaeological studies with a time series of aerial photographs. You can tell what has changed from time point to time point just by looking at (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If desireable to skip Larry, we are probably having a local gathering this weekend, and we could probably do a pretty good turnover and send it to Jan-Albert van Ree in the Netherlands with a bunch of US promo stuff (McDonalds and US versions (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) It's back again now. And I don't like the look of the mail address, too! But he has also put up a link to some old catalogue scans! (URL) haven't seen the first ones before, and they're great! Wether the original scans are a hoax or not (I (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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You are both correct. Now, where's that shoehorn? I seem to have my foot stuck in my mouth :-) I still think his whole thing is a hoax. Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ...lol... yea.. simple! :-) ...Chris, u have too much time on ur hands! :-) (...) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) #160 (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) looks (...) I just blew these up in my image editor and can say with certainty that the three most obvious cuts are: 1) perpendicular (sp?) to the rail, and 2) in the exact same place for all three track parts!! Will (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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There's something that has been bothering me with those pictures of automated points and I finally realized what it is. The power connectors to drive the switching motor are connected to both parts of the point. One is attached to the straight part (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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