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| I just received the Lego Legends Rail Club Car (Item 10002). The most striking aspect is the box, which is printed in Black & White. Is it normal for this set? Maybe Lego was just in a rush to clear the backlog. Thanks, Andrea (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Some new entries for lugnet database
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| I have some pictures of sets that are listed without pictures at lugnet database and a few more for sets tht are not listed in the database at all. These are (temporary) to be found at brickshelf: (URL) the years of the sets and further infos, I'm (...) (23 years ago, 25-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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| (...) In what way have you refuted every argument. This point you have about guns no longer serving a military use seems entirely specious. So specious that I think most people reading it are thinking to themselves, "Ugh, why bother trying to argue (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Building contest
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| (...) But you have to think about a limit of max. 10 pictures. So building (too) big means getting rid of the chance to show the details (1)... In trains this is more a thing concerning length not width, but a sceenery with landscape will cause some (...) (23 years ago, 25-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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| (...) I deny the validity of that point--an armed citizenry was valid for preserving freedom in the 18th century against a king who wanted to take that freedom away, but for those of us living in a long running democracy, now in the 21st century, (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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| (...) Why is that? What in your society, supposedly the freeest society on the planet, causes you to kill each other more often, per capita, than any other country in the world during peace time? I'll go so far as to grant you the premise that if (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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| (...) 25,000 violent deaths per year due to firearms is not a 'rampant problem'? 68 deaths a day 3 per hour. In the time it took us to write back and forth, say 3 hours, 9 people have died. 9 people whos violent "non accidental" deaths could have (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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| (...) So what? All you've done is show that people are smart enough to use the best tool for a certain task -- if you intend to kill someone a gun is a good choice for that job. In a sense, if you could eliminate a person's motivation to kill you (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: *OLD* LEGO Technic stuff (in Portuguese)
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| (...) Ya... :-) É a "Pony", C.C. Brasília, entrada das traseiras. (...) Eu não me queixo nada. Vai dar um jeitaço para combóio e cidade (só legends)! (...) É... :-/ Custo de viver na metrópole! :-D Mas não se está muito mal servido. Há lugares onde (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.pt)
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| legends (score: 0.402) |
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| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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| (...) Constant avoidance of the truth does not make the truth go away. A citizen cannot purchase an F22. A citizen cannot have at his or her disposal an ICBM. A citizen can only have, at best, a gun. This makes the differntial rather large. It's the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Castle World is dead.
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| Not finished with my Ancients Theme project, it'll take a while. I've even created a 2025 Theme into my whole collection, but even that isn't finished either. (URL) have more Ancients Theme soldiers though, its not just the Medes Persian ones as I (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote: <snip> (...) And I don't understand why you have a difficult time grasping the truth. 1776 history shows the differential in technology between the ruling powers and the common man to be rather (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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| (...) I was cutting the other side some slack with my 'diplomatic wording'. It's called being nice to the other side. It is my personal contention that a gun's main purpose is to kill/main someone else in front of the gun, and I have as yet to be (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: what makes a legend?
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| (...) It has taken me five severe revisions to answer this very difficult question. Each time I allowed myself to go off topic into the realm of what I wanted to see, and what I thought LEGO could do to improve their company, rather than answer the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: what makes a legend?
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| (...) I have to disagree a little with this only because I don't think that we should relegate the only sets issued 'in that vein' to being the half dozen 'Legends' that LEGO releases each year. I would hope instead, that as LEGO senses the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: what makes a legend?
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| In lugnet.lego.direct, Brad Justus writes: Hi Brad (...) For starters, I think a lot of what makes a legend a legend depends on the age of the person being asked. I for one was born in '68, and started with LEGO when I was about 6-8 years old. For (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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