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Over the Christmas holidays I built a Grecian Urn using only basic bricks from blue tubs and purple buckets. Images and details are at: (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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(...) ~ah! it's beautiful! thanks for all of the details and building tips! i'm very inspired now! are you going to make a blue and white one with what's left of those buckets, maybe? "say..how much does this grecian urn?" ~sorry. i just had to get (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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Hi Brian :) Looks great! for the most part you used only 2x4 bricks? I see 1x's in the pic with the 3 parts are they just for stability? I'm always amazed when I see "square" bricks making a circular creation! 2x4 bricks seem to be what I lack most (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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(...) from (...) Great! I'm happy to leave the SW building to others and work on more novel things. (...) The vision of a blue and white one had previously flashed through my mind, but the barber pole stripe pattern looked odd. (...) Actually, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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(...) from (...) I used anything that came in the standard tubs and buckets, so that would be both 1x's and 2x's. The picture showing the 3 parts also shows reasonably well the alignment pieces that aid in mating the top and bottom to the middle. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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(...) <ouch> This really, really belongs here. James (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) And the final stale chestnut, dug out of the footpad of the mother horse of all puns: "What's a Grecian Urn?" Steve (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) It's the same thing as a Henway;-) -John "ask, ask!" (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Hercules answered that question (sideways reference to the "speculations on bedtime stories" thread found elsewhere) (...) ugh, must we? ;-) /me hands an axe to the next person in line -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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