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Subject: 
RE: The Law of Falling Lego
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 1 May 2000 01:24:29 GMT
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And not always the piece with the sharpest point...Some of the
shields/roadsigns/other fragile pieces also fall into the step-on and
fall-on categories. :(

Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128

Growing older is compulsary..Growing up isn't :-)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Majewski [mailto:citrusx__@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:22 AM
> To: lugnet.castle@lugnet.com; lugnet.general@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: The Law of Falling Lego
> 
> 
> In lugnet.castle, Dave Johann writes:
> > 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. :-)
> 
> 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
> hold of something, you fall over, either onto: 1) a pile of
> equally sharp
> Lego, 2) one of your better creations, or 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 to me on two
> separate occasions.
> Greg Majewski
> http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/1888/abs.html
> 



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