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Re: RG Mech Completed!!!
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Date: 
Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:24:21 GMT
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Okay I'm at a loss. Brian are you just being silly? Or are seriously
criticizing the mech's lack of digits? I'm just asking because it's the
second time you've mentioned it...
Bryce


In lugnet.build.mecha, Brian Cooper writes:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4685

Complete, but yet feeling not complete,
RG embarks on a quest for thumbs.
Through the woods and streams he searches,
asking bots he meets a simple question
"Have you got any thumbs to spare?"
His frustration builds as he sits on the steps
pondering his dilemma "What can I do without thumbs?"
He sees visions of a job at Burger King where he fumbles
with a large Pepsi and a Whopper for the drive thru and
they fall to the pavement, then as a checkout clerk at
Walmart, clawing uselessly at the change in the cash
register while a line of impatient customers grows...
frustration soon turns to anger and RG realizes he was
made for one purpose, to rend, tear and destroy...

"K"



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  Re: RG Mech Completed!!!
 
(...) A human foot is a hand structure adapted to walking. The fingers (toes) have lost most of their grasping ability. RG doesn't walk on his hands, so the elaborate non-grasping design must be specialized for some other purpose (i.e. scratching, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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  Re: RG Mech Completed!!!
 
(...) RG embarks on a quest for thumbs. Through the woods and streams he searches, asking bots he meets a simple question "Have you got any thumbs to spare?" His frustration builds as he sits on the steps pondering his dilemma "What can I do without (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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