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| | | I fianlly started construction on my walled city. I started on the gate house, and the front wall. I was building in gray. Very early in the building process, it became painfully obvious that I just don't have enough gray... As I was sitting there (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | (...) I love the Yellow Castle myself. As far as using Yellow on a large scale I say why not! I personally have more Gray now than any other color thanks to a bunch of Gray Service Packs I bought last year. I think any color done right would look (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Brouwer
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| | | | | | | (...) say (...) Just out of curiosity, how many gray packs did you buy? (...) look (...) to (...) Thanks kinda what I was thinking, too. This will be a peacefull, "good" city, so I think the bright, cheery yellow will work. I will prolly use black (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | | (...) I bought around 50 of the service packs last year. Which is 700 2x4 bricks alone. Unfortunately there are not as many 1xX bricks in the packs so I am running low on 1xX's now. I still have a lot of 2xX's though so my limiting factor for the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Brouwer
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| | | | | | | | (...) Wow! That's a lot of gray. I have to believe that out of the 7 1200 piece tubs I have, I should be able to come up with plenty of yellow for the time being. I also plan on trading a lot of the bulk colors I don't need no for more yellow. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Lind
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yellow works. I did most of a cathedral in it. Even at that, I still ran out quickly. I don't have nearly enough of any given color to build a structure in the proper color scheme. I've resorted to using other colors as supports that no one (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Awright, Jeff Stembel, are you out there? Looks liek the Eri[ck]s are getting uppity again. Let's get our troops together and start some good old fashioned burning and pillaging! I think the only question to be answered is one of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) March on Snowden with your woad on, Never mind if you get rained or snowed on, Never need a button sewed on, Bottoms up to woad. Woadn't it be loverly? Bruce (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Lind
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| | | | | | | | | | | | redirected to lugnet.off-topic.fun (...) <extraneous verbiage snipped> First the Jeffs hone in, now a Bruce? This kind of intrusion won't be tolerated! Rise up, fellow Eri[ck]s!(1) We'll have to wear authentic, hornless Viking helms or something (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) I agree this intrusion into the "Eric" thread will not be tollerated. We must unite as one whether it is spelt Eric, Erik, Erick, Erich, Erric, or Erict (1). Join with us to banish the Jeff's and Bruce's from this thread. Eric Kingsley The New (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Brouwer
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | And I believe there is also Eriq, as in Eriq La Salle from ER (Dr. Benton) (...) (1). (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Lind
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Goodness, I'm going to have to write a new regular expression to recognize the name. Let's see.... Eri((c[kh])|[ck]).(1) That works out to "Eri" followed by either c followed by k or h, OR, c or k. Thus Erick, Erich, Eric, or Erik are valid. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Cool! That'll remove everyone named Aric, Ric, Ricky, Eirik, Erek, Errick, Rick, or Rikky from your ranks! This is, of course, assuming you removed all the Frederick's (and all variations) and Roderick's (and all variations) from your original (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Lind
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Ricky?! You might as well be named Jeff as Ricky! Besides, how many Eiriks, Ereks or Arics have you _ever_ seen on Lugnet? Still, one wouldn't want to eliminate any that might wander in in the future. And I wasn't really trying to exclude any (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) But it lists them as variations on the NameDB... :) (...) Yeah, but its more fun that way. ;) (...) Good! You're accepting that Jeff's are superior to Erics and Surrendering! Fine, we Accept your surrender. :) Jeff (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) How about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Steve (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Be careful. We can draw upon all those named Jeff, Jeffrey, Jefferson, Geoff, Geoffrey, Godfrey, Gottfried, Jefferey, Jefferies, Jeffy, Jeffie, and Jeofroi! Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Jeff P.S. I love the NameDB: (URL) :) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Extraneous verbiage snipped! Bet you sissy erics have to wear bearskins or some such stuff. All you need is woad! Besides, all these different names get confusing. Bruce Johnston. Bruce Lind. Bruce Brouwer. There. Here, have a Fosters. And (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) G'day Bruce! D'ja bring the sheep dip? What's new Bruce going to build? (J.) Bruce Johnston (No, really!) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —John Neal
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Don't forget about Eric the half-a-bee....;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —James Howse
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Cyril Connelly? (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) No, Semi-car##### - whoops, family forum! ;) (for the humour impaired, I'm making fun of me) James (URL) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Yes, I'm here, and I've got my Wiffle Bat armed legion preped for some good pillaging! :) (...) Umm... My Norwegian and German Ancestors are voting for the horned helm, if it is the classic mythic Viking helm. :) Jeff (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Karl Martinson
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) it (...) That's it! I've had enough, it's time myself and my legions entered the battle! No wait, I'm the only Karl, there may be other spellings, but not with a K. You should still be afraid, cause I'm armed with a dead fish, and I'm naked (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | [FUT:off-topic.fun] (...) Ooh! Ooh! Special Move: Fish Slapping Dance!! :) Um... Is a "pokadot" different from a "polkadot"? Jeff (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Jason Catena
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) with (...) Sure! It's being dotty from being pokedalot (in this case, by a dead fish), as opposed to being dotty from being polkadalot. Ouch, my head is swimming. Oooh look, a rock! (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Karl Martinson
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) with (...) Yes, Jeff2 (jeff Johnston is Jeff1 cause we just traded some stuff :) see, polka is horrible music, and doesn't deserve to have a design. and with the stupid pokemon craze sweeping the world i think that i've been subliminaly (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Frank Buiting
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) LOL! [cue to a man struggling on a beach] "It's ... " -Frank (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Eric Lind
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) And now for something completely different. Eric "the" Lind (1) (1)Ok, I'm not completely different, but I am different, in a complete sort of way. (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) A man with a Tape Recorder up his nose... :) Jeff (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Frank Buiting
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) It's getting too silly! (No it's not! Yes it is! No it isn't!... are you here for an argument?) -Frank (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Would that be the 5 message argument, or the full thread? ;) James (URL) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Frank Buiting
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) I never wanted to be in such a shambledy thread anyway... I always wanted to be ... a LEGO builder! Leaping from brick to brick! The mighty 2x4, the BURP! with my best friends by my side! We'd sing, sing, sing! AFOL: I'm a AFOL and I'm okay, I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) lol No one-- family NG, remember;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) But that's my only line! Jeff (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | | Hello fellow Eri[ck]s of YellowCastle! I too will always be a yellow castle fan. Though Eric K has made grey look good. My 4th century villa in Gaul is inspired by yellow castle. With red roofs. Populated by yellow castle era types. Plug: (URL) got (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Jason Catena
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| | | | | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | (...) I agree. Excellent job, Eric. The slopes indicate strong foundations... (...) <grin> If I had bunches of tan (which I don't) I'd keep them. At least you can get grey in service packs if you need to. Not tan... (...) Cool, can't wait! (...) (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle... —Tom McDonald
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| | | | (...) I think yellow is awesome for a castle. White is great too! While grey might be more accurate, there's a certain "brightness" lent to a fortress filled with smiling minifigs. It's also just the right color to really get people's attention, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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