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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, (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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