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In lugnet.castle, Aaron West writes: **snip** (...) Preach it, brother! This has driven me crazy for decades! A further, minor corrolary is that the initially-sought piece will become visible again, often in large numbers, once an inferior or less (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I must add yet another corrolary that I discovered... I felt it appropriate enough to hunt this thread up for it... :-) Any piece that is completly unwanted will appear in the largest quantities possible, in a very ubiquitous manner. Once you (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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One more collary to add to this thread: If a piece of Lego has a sharp point on it and falls to the ground, the point will always be facing up. This piece can only be located by stepping on it with bare feet. :-) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) with (...) And after the initial shock of the impaled foot is felt, you are unconciously driven to lift your foot off the ground very abruptly, placing yourself in the least stable standing position possible. Then after trying in vain to grab (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Or, if you're *really* lucky, you don't fall, but manage to jump to a different location - which of course also has a few sharp pieces... Having wall-to-wall carpeting never helps, somehow... -Shiri (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) placing (...) trying in >vain to grab hold of something, you fall over, either onto... 3) the tub that >the rest of your Lego is in, splitting the tub open and causing the contents >to spill out everywhere. The last one has actually happened (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sounds like what happens to me. End up catapulting a monorail sized box full of pieces at me showering not only myself but the rest of my sorted boxes with miscellanious pieces. Quite exciting. Kya (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I can relate to Brams last comment about pieces falling into the wrong boxes--this has happened to me more than a few times. As for the problem of dropping/falling Lego, this does not trouble me much at all. Since the day Lego was brought into (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This is one advantage of my system where most parts are in resealable bags (such as ZipLoc). Of course it adds a new way for Murphy to strike - you pick up an unsealed bag by the bottom... (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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This is perhaps my biggest problem whenever I'm trying to rebuild an old set. The piece I need is ALWAYS in the one box that has been buried under all the other boxes. Dave Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Indeed. Or when you have your little Plano tackle boxes, filled with parts, turn around in your chair, your arm hits an object, and you have a MIRV type LEGO dispearsal all over the place. : ) Here is a container: (URL) when you grab a (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ...Or alternately: "A 1x1 trans-* piece that falls on the floor can only be found by the vacuum cleaner"... this after my daughter tipped over my 1x1 trans dot box :-/ ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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