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(...) eight from eight for the redoubtable Mr Johnston. (...) Actually I was after simply oceaney/islandy but since I'd named Erik before writing the story (my middle name is Eric and since it was handy) sort of after Erik the Red the scandahoovian (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) He shoots, he scores! ;-) (...) Well, it's just the feeling of an island of seafarers - which connects, for some people, to Norway or Celts, I guess. It's a nice feel, anyhow. <snip> (...) Too bad, I want to see them... (...) Oh, but we do! (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I may not use metric on a regular basis, but I'm not so metrically impaired as to not see a problem with the above (if you are metrically impaired, just look at your speedometer tonight and see what the problem with the above is). (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) ;-) Mainly that 160 km are 100 miles, not the opposite... (and yes, I used to use the metric system regularly, until moving to the 'let's do it our way' US... :) -Shiri (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Oops! Well I guess that would make me imperically impared So it would be 65ish miles. I'm sorry but for me that's not so big a distance. Is that because I don't live with miles or is it just to do with the number involved. James from Oz (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) We're not doing it our way, we're doing it the old way. Everyone else went and did it some other way. I think the metric system is a plot by the French to take over the world (or maybe a backlash against anything English, as evidenced by the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Using the "Star Wars" standard, there are 2.85 studs/meter. Jeff "You can't be a hero hiding underneath your bed" (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Guess I should document. See this message: (URL) can't be a hero hiding underneath your bed" (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I suspect that Australia is somewhat like the USA in that respect. "In Europe, 100 miles is a long way. In America, 100 years is a long time." I suppose it's just what you're used to. I suspect that in Legoland, even one mile (scale!) is a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) about 2.87 studs = 1 minifig meter (this is based on your average minifig being 6 minifig feet tall, and actually being 42mm tall (5.25 studs or 4.375 bricks tall) So for metric, estimating about 3 studs = 1 meter is not too bad... for (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) But remember that medieval minifigs were actually much shorter than modern ones because they didn't have as good nutrition. Shouldn't we take that into account? 8) I think that 1 stud = 1 foot would work pretty well for CW. At least for us (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) lol (...) I'm all for it. That's usually what I use as my estimate, except that it means my minifigs are all 5 feet tall. On a side note, Altavista will spit out a bunch of conversion tools if you ask it for "metric conversion" (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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On a side note, Altavista will spit out a (...) Does that actually include a "metric to Lego" chart? (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Alas, no, it's not that sophisticated, although it did have such esoteric units as drams and fathoms. I should write my own utility and plunk it up on the net. All it is is simple math. (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Some of your picture references are broken due to case sensitivity issues. (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks for the heads up. The site will be updated (graphically and contentwise) in December when final year university exams are over. James (who's not in the habit of visiting his own site.) P.S. where did you drop in from to check the site, (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Just follow the post references back... I've been slowly plowing through lugnet.castle extracting interesting web pages and posts to link to from my links pages. I've only got about 1400 posts left to re-read (or in some cases read for the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wow, I'm starting to move quickly, those older posts are quicker to deal with (partly due to finally getting back to the discussion of the 2000 sets, partly because many of the creations are already linked). I'm down to about 1100 posts to (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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