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| | | OK, here goes! This is an A to Z acronym guide - not categorized. I might make another, categorized one later. (IIRC, AFAIK, these are all the acronyms. LMKWYT, TIA. HTH!) (If you didn't understand that, this is for you!) ___...___ A1RB: Alpha-1 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | | (...) Great list! I have a couple of suhhestions/addition...endations. (...) Also FOTD, FOTM, FOTY and for the really excitable, FOTC. (...) ROTFLMAO! (...) Often followed by HAND (Have a Nice Day). (...) Or 'My Original Creation' (...) Pronounced (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Jeff Thompson
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| | | | | Some of the item in this list could probably be safely removed. They show the list's genesis in 1994-1995 rec.toys.lego culture and describe sets that aren't discussed often enough to deserve their own acronyms. In particular, SOG sticks out like a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | Oh, heck. I can't resist. In lugnet.faq, Shiri wrote: You need: LURP - Little Ugly Rock Piece. The smaller, triangular one. Nowadays, both rock pieces are called BURPs. (...) This one is cool! I've got: Special/Single Purpose UnLEGOish/Ugly/Useless (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Alan Gerber
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| | | | | | (...) Idea: Stupidly Pitiful Ugly Design Alan This message's random set is: 6982, www.lugnet.com/pause...query=6982 (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Pawel Nazarewicz
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| | | | | (...) BOGO ... ? Buy One Get One ... (followed by a percentage) ... (off implied) (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks! BTW, I was searching all these acronyms, looking to cut off the set acronyms that aren't in use here. The results I got were hilarious: 50% of the sets appeared in three fixed messages; my acronym FAQ and two other similar guides... WP (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | An Acronym Guide - Catagorized —David Schilling
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| | | | | (...) I've been collecting acronyms for a while as well, and was putting them into catagories. Below is the list I have so far. I replaced my 'theme' collection with Shiri's, since that one was much more complete. And I've been wondering exactly (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - Catagorized —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | (...) make (...) Thanks for the list! Some of these stuff I took out or didn't put in intentionally, but some will be very helpful. I'm adding them. (...) I got the impression that this was considered as an acronym for the Utah LUG? I don't know for (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - Catagorized —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | | (...) It used to be GULP. Glad we changed it! :-, It's officially WAFOL -- Wasatch Area Fans Of Lego. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - Catagorized —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | (...) Don't forget KKK = Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (...) OMR = Official Model Repository, the mythical ldraw.org site fantasized over by many but something that Tim (yours truly) has been too lazy to finish. :| -Tim (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - Catagorized —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | (...) The original: NLSO = Non-LEGO Significant Other (well, it might not be the original, but it's the most common) And: SLSO/S/P = Semi-LEGO Significant Other/Spouse/Parent (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - Catagorized —Mike Poindexter
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| | | | | | | Don't forget the FA - For Auction. Correction listed below on BAYLUG David Schilling <davidNO@SPAMsunteleia.com> wrote in message news:FpL49u.B5A@lugnet.com... (...) make (...) into (...) been (...) The train club is BAYLTC BAYLUG is the Lego Users (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - Catagorized —Simon Denscombe
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| | | | | | (...) Busy-Bee. A service for old sets in Manchester, England. Go here: (URL) 60 (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Markus Wolf
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| | | | Thanks for the guide. I've been following Lugnet for about a month and have been trying to figure out what TRU means. I did get BURP right away, because one of the first postings I saw mentioned it. I think I'm finally ready to join the LUGnet (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Mike Clemens
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| | | | In lugnet.faq, Markus Wolf writes: [...] (...) Welcome Markus! I think we all have "youthful indiscretions" that we're ashamed of, but if you're looking for penance, I suggest walking barefoot across a carpet strewn with 1x1 bricks, which repeating (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Shiri Dori
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| | | | (...) Of course you're still Welcome! My cousin (on the other side of the US from me) has Mega-blocks and upon visiting her on winter break I experimented with these. Definitely not worth it ;-) But anyhow, welcome! What themes do you like? (Glad (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Dean Husby
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| | | | (...) Gasp! That would damage the bricks! Dean (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Shiri Dori
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| | | | (...) <snip> (...) Nah... notice that you're supposed to walk barefoot... and 1x1 bricks are not likely to be damaged from that ;-) Especially since your weight would be devided among many, many bricks... Ouch!!! The only thing it would damage, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: An Acronym Guide - A to Z —Markus Wolf
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| | | | Well, now that I have all the cards on the table, I'm kind of just back into Lego. I mean, when the pirate theme was discontinued, Lego somehow lost me. They started making heads with little headsets with the space people and that made them too (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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