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Hi Pete, thanks for your reply. Some short answers: (...) I bought new and used slopes for the roof an I mixed them very well. But - you are right - the roof looks quite new. I tried to use mixed colors on the roof, but this was too jumbled up. (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) Oh, I just meant it's not really so much the "Knight's Bus" debacle as a "purple in general" debacle. The Knight's Bus was just one of the more recent sets to come with huge amounts of purple. Actually... Hm. I wonder how many sets have come (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Since LEGO is a private company, they can do anything they want. If LEGO decided to now make automotive parts or kitchen utensils or print newspapers there is nothing we can say as fans of the brick to make them change their mind. The LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) <snip a bit of my stuff> (...) Dear Ben, I'm very glad that you noticed it and I'm really touched to see that you even recall it! I really think that you are (besides a {greatest} MOCcer, mind you!) one of the few persons that keep me hanging (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
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(...) I stand corrected! I skimmed right over that bit in Jake's post ((URL) repeatedly because I figured it was the S@H description. (...) The first quote I'll give you. That one by no means. It was true, still is true. No promises on possible (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) -snipped lots of fun stuff- A couple of years ago, my wife (Beth) opened all the boxes of lego she was giving me and padded the contents. No magical rattling sound when the presents under the tree were investigated. (But a nice surprise on (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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People like Chris espically will apprecieate this one. So my friends Maria, Jessi, Mandi and I were tobogganing tonight and Maria's ears were cold. So we went to Wal Mart, and found her some ear muffs. Afterword, we decided to go to Tim Hortons, and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) David- The funny thing is that I was thinking about that scene just yesterday (during my 3 hour traffic delayed drive home from our current SCLTC show in San Diego). The actual lines are closer to "As I recall I opposed your enlistment to (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) Oh great! Why does this happen? Those lines that go on forever? Looked great on the preview. And now I'm being told that I can't even post this due to the quotes above being too long or high in %. I wonder if I just add any ol gobbily gook (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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| | I'll deserve coal next year!
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My wife Laurette is the one who helped end my dark ages 14 years ago by placing a 25 piece 6811 Pulsar Charger (URL) in my Christmas stocking as a gag gift. That gag gift's piece count has since been squared and squared again (25 X 25 X 25 X 25). I (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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(...) Frankly my captian...you frighten me. Attack! Mike (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Pete White wrote: Lots of funny Lego acronyms for the word "phlegm" (...) Uh... I just saw the movie Lolita. That's too creepy for me. How about, "Pink Heart Lovers Exasperate Grown Men" instead? :^) Cheers, John Ladasky (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, I'm up and running using binutils-2.15, gcc-3.4-20041217 and your gcc-3.3 patch to the cvs version of brickOS. I also have the USB Tower working. Would the brickOS guys be interested in FreeBSD patches to firmdl and dll? John (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Actually, only the first one looks like it has serious modification. I built a hit & miss engine similar to the blue one when I was a kid, although I didn't have a compressor to run it, so it didn't run as fast as his or as long :) You'd be (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 10152 Update: What has TLC to do to bring YOU up against them?
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Your thought process, as enumerated below, is flabergasting in the scope of its naivete. You realize that Lego is fighting for its very survival, no? Maybe you're right. Better to have those kindly Danes keep making the brick until the company is (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
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What makes you think that Lego would deign to expend the effort it would take to lie to a bunch of insignificant moqsuitoes like us? The contribution margin on the entire load of Maersk ships probably amounts to what we accountants call a rounding (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Srtrictly conjecture, but I would think that Lego is going to be quite careful in ensuring consistent colors for their fellow Danes at Maersk. Could be quite embarrasing if they didn't (and the Danes noticed). "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Nice work Johh, way to break off a slice of Tudor, 2 great vignettes. Get that Lego out of storage and get back to work on your keep! -Keith (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) SNIP (...) SNIP (...) James, These look great. I'd love to be able to build the whole consist. I was curious if you were planning to release the MPD files? I find these come in handy for trying to figure out what parts I don't have via Peeron. (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(URL) has to be some serious modification. I really really like it ;) Does anyone know who this is? JB (21 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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