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Cardboard starships —Jeremy H. Sproat

Hey all, Has anyone seen this site (1) ? I found it in the LUGNET CLSotW banners page. It has some pretty nice Lego models, but it also has some (IMHO) fairly impressive minifig-scale cardboard-and-toilet-paper-tube starfighters. Has anyone else (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Terry Keller

(...) I was tempted to say that toilet paper tube starships are crappy, but they really are pretty good. :-) -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Jeremy H. Sproat

(...) Good thing too, 'cause I didn't want to have started another potty-pun thread. :-, Bathroom humor is so...um, never mind. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Todd Lehman

(...) "Fast ship? You've never heard of the Charmin Falcon?" "Should I have?" "It's the ship that made the Potty Run in less than twelve parsecs." (...) Wipe that cheeky grin off your face. :-, --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)

Re: Cardboard starships —Tom McDonald

(...) "Which reminds me.. I have something for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your Uncle wouldn't allow it. It's your father's toilet paper, the wipe of the Jedi... not as clumsy or random as a bidet... an (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)

Re: Cardboard starships —Jasper Janssen

(...) Use the Pants, Luke! The Pants! Jasper (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)

Re: Cardboard starships —Jeremy H. Sproat

(...) "Flushing a toilet isn't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise handling we lose the whole roll of Charmin or send the water back into our faces, and that'd end your bathroom break real quick, wouldn't it?" Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)

Re: Cardboard starships —Jeff Stembel

(...) "Luke, I am your Plumber!" Jeff (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)

Re: Cardboard starships —James Brown

(...) "That's no moon..." James (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)

Re: Cardboard starships —John Neal

(...) No, wait. It is. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)

Re: Cardboard starships —Gintaras Rumsas

(...) Thanks for the link, Jeremy. Nice stuff IMHO. Long long ago (more than 25 years ago when I was 12-14) I have few such fighters produced from cardboard for my childhood armies. May be now I will to try recreate some of these ideas with LEGO. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Frank Filz

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Re: Cardboard starships —Richard Dee

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:09:37 GMT, Frank Filz uttered the following profundities... (...) Before C60 gets in here.... We have a children's show, called Blue Peter, and they had built the whole Thunderbirds (1) base out of household waste items, such (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Terry Keller

(...) Really? I had no problems with it using MSIE 5 and I just now tried it with Netscape 4.5 with no difficulties. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Tamyra Teed ("Mookie")

(...) Netscape 4.6 is buggy as all getout, I've had it crash on me so many times already I've had to uninstall Quicktime just to use it... not that quicktime wasn't buggy either.. so I didn't mind that.. now if I could only find my old version of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Jeremy H. Sproat

(...) I've had similar problems with QT 3 and different versions of Netscape. I use QT 2 now; I can e-mail it to you if you want. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Terry Keller

(...) 4.6, eh? Well, I will stick with 4.5 then, and wait for the next release. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Frank Filz

(...) I'm using Netscape 3.01 for AIX. I've looked at the newer versions, but they seem to have taken away the capability to lay out the Mail & News reading windows in the format I like (Split Vertical): +---...---+---...---+ | folders/ | article/ | (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Wes Matchett

(...) Netscape 4.5 can be used with this layout with the following commands: Edit : Preferences : Mail&Newsgroup : Windows Settings The dialog shown allows the layout you desire to be selected. -Wes (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Frank Filz

Re: Cardboard starships —Wes Matchett

You're correct, I didn't check to see the content of the frames. -Wes (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Gintaras Rumsas

(...) Really? I am using Netscape Communicator 4.5 and had no problems. Much more problems here are because of old bad telephone lines. Gintaras (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

Re: Cardboard starships —Frank Filz

Gintaras Rumsas wrote in message <37576AA3.CA5E5319@k...el.net>... (...) Well, finally had time to look at the site at home on MSIE 4... Looks nice. Frank (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)