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In lugnet.color, Richard Noeckel wrote: (...the stuff that Richard writes.) Richard, that post was HOT. With every word I read, I feel the passion growing in my loins. Please continue turning me on. Love, Iain (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) :::Warning, this is a personal attack!::: No one will ever really love you Calum! (Except maybe for your parents) But aside from family, you will never be truly be loved. This is true, and we all know it. I don't care if i get banned, or if (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't think I've ever heard me described that way. Sigh! (...) Mindstorms Tax Filing has to be the funniest thing I have ever heard. Next month, we're doing RCX fractal rendering. (...) Grr! Square opaque eyes, grr! (...) You do know most of (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yep--pretty much the funniest strip--"I know--the contest was a HUGE success!!" After a while, though, CalumBall isn't as much fun and just gets kinda mean and nasty--likewhen you're playing Dodgeball in school, and you're the last one left on (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It's okay. I wish for bad things to happen to the members of rtlToronto on pretty much a daily basis. But then everything I see Calum, I look in to his dreamy eyes and that hateful feeling goes away. Sigh. But then they come up with a (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I agree with the general thrust of this letter. Steve Demlow (34), Minnesota, $1,000-$4,000 annually before 2004; less than $100 on 2004-2005 sets. The company produced a lot of excellent sets in 2004 - great designs, great parts selections - but my (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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I disagree with this letter. (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I agree with the above letter and sign it Walter Walters (age 30), Pennsylvania (USA) approximate annual budget before 2004: $1500 approximate budget for 2004: $7 Total MSRP of LEGO sets that I own: pre-2004: $9,573 post-2004: $7 (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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In lugnet.color, Thomas Stangl wrote: <snip> (...) True, but how much of that 5% actually cares about the color change enough to vocally protest? Based on the discussion here I'd well less than half and probably more like one tenth (and I think (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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Kevin, If you read the thread, they've already noted it was a mis-translation. (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Sure, and I have no problem with that. I DO have a problem with the suck-ups telling the people that are trying to tell TLC they made a mistake to keep quiet about it. Sucking up all the time with no dissent is a sure way to grenade a company (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The tests they did simply could have been skewed by how the questions were asked. Without seeing the actual test, we won't know if they happened to use leading questions posed by the people for the color change, or hand-picked a strange group (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) And your actions, kissing their hindquarters vociferously, will somehow tell them when they might have done something that has upset their paying customers? ENOUGH of the puckering up, Bill. (...) 5% is 5%. If you as a CEO piss off 5% of your (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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I agree to returning to the old greys/browns (the new don't need to disappear, just bring back the old). Tom Stangl (38), Cantonment, Florida USA ~$10-20,000/yr 1997-2004 ~$200 post-2004 (on post-color-change sets. Still a few thousand on (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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I DON'T agree with this letter...as far as grey/brown color changes are concerned. To date, TLG has *yet* to give a *valid* reason for the change. Any reasons given have been debunked as fluff or outright lies. Give us the real reason ($$$), and (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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sorry i incorretly signed the first time OnDrew Hartigan (21), winfield, il , $2000-6000 pre2004, 3500 for2004 but only spent on 2003 and prior sets/ PAB, during my employment at the woodfield lego store oct03-aug04 i spoke with no less than 200 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Ben, If you change the language of the letter so that it is clear that you are a group of people made up mostly of AFOLs, not the entire AFOL community then I will have no opinion about your letter, retract my objection to it, and wish you the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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One side benefit to LF (IMO) has been the spotlight pages on the judges. It's fun to read each judge's background, childhood favorites, etc. and then try to see how that reflects in his/her designs. From a teacher's point of view, I also loved the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.edu, FTX)
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i completly agree. OnDrew J. Hartigan 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The issue wasn't explicitly stated as such. The issue was explicitly stated, in the original post, as coming from the AFOL community, not just you. (...) ANd you should, indeed, state your opinion, but make it abundantly clear that it is your (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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