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| (...) That's unfortunate. Please try again, and save often! Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| Arrr...rrrgh!!!...!!! Somehow, a very VERY long list of acronyms that I worked on for the past hour managed to delete itself!!! I am quite annoyed, and I'm not gonna start over again!!! This isn't the first time this kind of thing happens to me, and (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) lot at the time, but not much anymore (e.g. when's the last time you heard IHTICWI? According to Derek: "It's Hard To Imagine Childhood Without It; the '95 line catalog." I've never seen this one ;-) (...) Do you have his e-mail? (...) Other (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) Oh, absolutely! :-, Here's a decent head-start, Derek Schin's rec.toys.lego acronym list: (URL) I mentioned, this list is for rec.toys.lego, and has quite a few acronyms not in common usage on LUGNET; I think it would be useful to break it up (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) of these... Dean (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) don't (...) Yeah, I had a tough time too... (...) That's what I meant by the second sentence ;-) (...) I think that I'll start working on it soon. I will need some help for Pirate and Space acronyms as I know there *are* many, but I only know (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) newsgroups, i quickly figured out what pieces the terms refered to, but it took months to finally figure out what the acronyms stood for. Big Ugly Rock Piece!? how's anyone supposed to get that!? i personally don't find Ramp And Pit Plates all (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) Well, *I* certainly need one, so there's at least an audience of one. I remember some of them from the old RTL days: newcomers would certainly benefit. I'd suggest beraking it down into sections like "LEGO related" (AFOL, BURP, POOP, RTL) and (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| I was thinking of creating an Acronym FAQ. I've noticed that many people don't know certain acronyms and can't figure them out from the context. Do you think there is need for one? I know that earlier ones were made but long ago, and new acronyms (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) says (...) A billion parts left over, that is. (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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