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| (...) Hey, there's nothing wrong with Times -- it just depends how you use it. In most occurrences, it's not used to its full potential. If you've got a large amount of body-text meant to be read sequentially, then Times is a great choice -- and (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Timmy
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| (...) No, not at all. My Pyrates find Timmy incredibly useful: Cabin Boy (we won't pursue this any further), bait when trolling for sharks, someone to hang from the highest yardarm, or as an induced volunteer for plank walking. His head makes a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What are boat weight bricks good for?
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| (...) I'd love a few as counterweights for my trebuchet. (A trebuchet is a catapult that uses the fall of a massive counterweight (~64x) to launch a much lighter projectile (1x). The weight difference is transformed into momentum for the smaller (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Trebuchet (was: Sneak preview Estuary Stronghold)
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| (...) I just watched the Siege Weapons edition of the Nova "Secrets of Lost Empires" miniseries on PBS. Basically, the hour-long show focused on the efforts of two groups of people to build two slightly different trebuchets using medieval methods, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Trebuchet (was: Sneak preview Estuary Stronghold)
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| (...) Just read an article (I think it was in Smithsonian magazine) about this "experiment". I can look it up if anyone missed the special. (...) Have you observed the range difference with a rolling and non-rolling LEGO model? The article mentioned (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Trebuchet (was: Sneak preview Estuary Stronghold)
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| In lugnet.castle, Jason Catena writes: SNIP (...) over (...) hole (...) Personal recommendation, don't even try for the sling approach. It will require a stout crossbar to stop the throwing arm, but put one of the catapult buckets at the end and (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Trebuchet (was: Sneak preview Estuary Stronghold)
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| (...) Alas, I was unable to get it to fire properly often enough to make that observation. The figure of "by a half" I got from the wooden model they used in the Nova special, which fired 30 feet when rolling, versus 20 feet when stationary. Another (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Trebuchet (was: Sneak preview Estuary Stronghold)
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| (...) Hm. The trebuchets in the Nova special did not have crossbars, but in any event I might be trying to do something a little too tricky for now. The catapult bucket is a really good idea, and I did try to use the bucket-and-arm from the Catapult (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Leo's Castle... flags?
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| On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, David Eaton (<FnIrEw.3y0@lugnet.com>) wrote at 20:25:44 (...) Funnily enough, I've just been worrying about this myself. A quick look through the instructions show that I've built it correctly, and there is *no* flag on the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Sneak preview Estuary Stronghold
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| Wow. That was one piece of work. All those creative uses for pieces, especially the round towers and the rock raiders canopy, really gave it a realistic look. I'm gonna round the towers on my castle now. And is that a Trebuchet in two of the pics or (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Sure it is. I didn't read any of this. (...) Why, he's bald, of course. (...) If you own a trebuchet, pigs can also fly. (...) Green. b'GOK! -LFB (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: How to make shackles
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| (...) could have a really (...) And now for something completely different..... Monty Python's The Lego Grail..... A figure outfitted in black and blue armor, crested w/a black hawk, shouts insults and taunts from high atop his Yellow Castle wall, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Where is everybody?!
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| (...) superfat chickens, leaving us only the scrawny and gristly. He maketh Pianos to fall from on high, squashingeth our fellow townsfolk. He doth stompeth around like he owns the place, yea, and even bats around those whose feet are not firmly (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Cedric was: 2000 catalog page 16
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| OK, audience is > 0 for a web page about catapults. I spent some time at a recent exhibit on Da Vinci and Brunelleschi and other artist-engineers. There were many catapult designs there! Actually, the model that was under development was the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: I just held a Lego Show!
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| (...) I have been mulling this over, too. I am a member of the science support commitee of the parent's organization at my son's school (K-8, ages 6-14 for non-USA). I showed some of the committee members some technic and got volunteered to do a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.dacta, lugnet.edu, lugnet.general)
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| | brikwars...
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| ...We (WAMALUG) had our first test brikwars game saturday and I must say it was fun (specially when the big mecha pilot got enraged and swore death at his attackers :-) _BUT_ (there's always a but in these things)... ...I found the weapons a mess to (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Pirate Game Mortars: First Draft
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| (...) I agree. Part of the goal of rule creation was to make these bits suitably rare--they would either need to be specialised or a pirate would need to seek them out quite deliberately. (...) strong that (...) comes (...) This is a good (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | 8277 giant model set still available
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| Anybody know if the 8277 Giant Model Set is still available? I haven't seen it lately (1 yr or more?). Need more Technic beams to try again to build a Lego trebuchet (counterweight catapult a la Northern Exposure, or the recent Nova on PBS). Thanks, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Massive Website Makeover and Update
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| Wow. I had seen your stuff before and I like it a lot. Very nice. I hadn't seen your war machines before, though. I Love them! Balista, Catapult and Trebuchet! If I ever built a castle that I am satisfied with, I hope the opposing army doesn't have (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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