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Re: Mystery Mech spotted - OT
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Date: 
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:39:55 GMT
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Who's talking mechs? You should -see- the size of our grasshoppers and
locusts 'down under'. I'm thinking a 70t grasshopper may be a bit restrained
actually. They crush cars, eat children, and certainly give the drop-bears a
run for their money....

'Adam
(who has failed to be silly, or even to be slightly amusing.)


"Joel Jacobsen" <jacobsen@oar.net> wrote in message
news:GLtCB0.DCG@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Adam Wood writes:
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> > > 
> > > I'd suggest Grasshopper but they're just small locust. ;)
> > 
> > Hmmm... (Adam puts on his nerd hat) The Grasshopper is -considerably- • larger
> > than the Locust. 70t vs. 20t? The stats for it are
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> Nerd hat indeed....  I was comparing a real life grasshopper to a real • life
> locust -- in which case grasshoppers are 'basically' a smaller version of
> the critters. :)
> 
> I wasn't drawing a Mech-to-Mech comparison and certainly not between a 70t
> and 20t mech. That would a silly thing (tm) and such things should be left
> to people with the ability to be silly. Which I am not, for I am not a • silly
> person. (ahem)
> 
> Joel J



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(...) <snipped> Oh, you were silly and amusing, IMO. I just lost your reply among other posts and so didn't reply. It sounds like you've the makings for a really good (read: BAD) monster movie... just think of all that revenue.... more LEGO to build (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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  Re: Mystery Mech spotted
 
(...) <snipped> (...) <snipped> Nerd hat indeed.... I was comparing a real life grasshopper to a real life locust -- in which case grasshoppers are 'basically' a smaller version of the critters. :) I wasn't drawing a Mech-to-Mech comparison and (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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