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(URL) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX) !! 
 
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LOL!!! Excepy "bley" doesn't have an "a" ;) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) It does if you live in Atlanta! --Todd (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) Unless it's like grey, which can be spelled grey or gray. (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) I think you mean to say Etlente. Just trying to help, here. LFB (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) Actually the new color is refered to as "Blech!!" (insert vomit sound here). 8^D -jeremy (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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Sigh, and just when good MOCs were finaly making it back into the Top Stories. Derek (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)  
 
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(...) I agree. And I'd spotlight your post too, to show that I agree, except it would make the problem worse. :-) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) I heartily agree. Sigh... (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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everyone step aside as we get to see the founder of lugnet act like a child! whoo-wee! (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX) ! 
 
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(...) Absolutely. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm certainly going to be reading less LUGNET posts about colour in the future. ;-) Cheers Richie Dulin (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) You say that like it's a bad thing. But being childlike in our approach to life can be very very good, you know. As long as what's meant by childlike is that sense of wonder, the openness to new ideas, desire for having fun and for (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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Can't we all just move on? I remember a time when people complained about BURPs, LURPs, and the like. Somehow we got beyond that (and they're now selling for about $1 to $7 each on Bricklink, so someone must like them). Jeff (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) Yeah, well, make sure you set your skip-filter to lugnet.color, because lugnet.colour isn't going to do it for you... ;-) Mark (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) Oh gee, that's the founder? *shakes head* I thought it was just one of those infinite monkeys at infinite computers... Anyway, flipping the "p" in "play" to get "blay" does create an interesting effect, but I don't think it was worth spending (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) snip (...) hehe! actually, this was a non-photoshop job! Done with a piece of white sticky-backed paper and a sharpie! (Probably explains why the A is't an e...) Anyway, it was done in good fun...so don't take it seriously, folks! I like the (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) I always feel better after a few good BURPs. They made me a nice mountain with caverns running through it once, so how can I complain? (URL) Builder In Need Of Time (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) What do you mean? If you are here, then you (we) all act like a child every day. More people should try it. -Aaron- Eater of Squishy Things, Crunchy Things, and Occasionally Soggy Cereal (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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I like it - thanks Todd, for the cheer! And to those who would rather we get over the color issue... get over the fact that it is not something a lot of us are going to get over easily, or maybe even ever. It cut deep and it hurt. You obviously (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color) ! 
 
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In lugnet.color, Todd Lehman wrote: ROTFL This is great!... J.- (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) Matt- I can certainly agree with you! As a collector and builder for 28 years, this is certainly a setback for me. In my opinion, I feel it's more difficult for those who are younger, and/or may not have the appreciation for the history of (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) Well said, Larry. Peace and balance, Guru Baba Ding and Starflower (URL) (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) I hate to point this out to you, but if you're hurt by something you claim to enjoy, that's not a hobby - that's a fetish. (...) What? 'Deep wounds'? You need a new hobby. This one's a threat to your health. (...) Some of us would prefer you (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX) ! 
 
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(...) Maybe it should be called "yay," because it's kind of yellowish? Well, at least that's what I think when I get a whole bunch of it. But yeah, the word "bley" just makes me think of Calum's Comic Book Guy reference, and I dislike the snarkiness (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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I think "grue" is just fine. (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) It is very dark. If you continue you are likely to be eaten by a grue. grue [EF] The Grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Its favorite diet is either adventurers or enchanters, but its insatiable appetite is (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.color)
 
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(...) Justin, I for sure would like *you* to put the adult into AFOL and get over that some people can't get over it! Who are you anyway? The Guardian of The TRUTH? The Mighty Wisdom Incarnated in thy Man? What's your problem man? And who are you to (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> wrote in message news:Hy8Fw4.1I9G@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I compared a few Maersk bricks from my collection to the Maersk bricks in the new ship and they match. Mike (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.color)
 
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(...) I'm someone who is annoyed by the fact that some people claim severe emotional distress due to a well-thought-out and rational adult decision to change old mud gray colors to a brighter, less-prone-to-fading set of gray colors. I should not (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) By that rationale, everyone who drank old Coke -- and hated it when the Coca-Cola company changed the formula -- had a fetish for Coke? (...) I think he probably means emotional wounds. Please try to understand that a lot of us have very large (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) ok, noted. everyone has a different reaction. (...) for some people, it simply doesn't feel like a well-thought-out decision. (...) i understand how you can find it tiresome. but for those who are truly upset, they have a right to express (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
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(...) How about a well-thought-out and rational adult decision to change old mud gray colors to a brighter, less-prone-to fading set of BLUE colors? Some good points have been raised in the past about what light may have been used when evaluating (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)

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