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This is fantastic! My wife and I just saw it - Yet another way to get my wife further involved in the world of LEGO! Thank you thank you thank you!!! :) EC (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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(...) Brrr, it's like the Arctic in there! (FUT .pun) (...) Great idea! Thanks! -Shiri (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) polybag there... (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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Clever girl;-) That is an awesome idea, Suz! This sounds like a fun project with the kids. Thank you for sharing{:^D -John (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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Here's something fun. I set up my Arctic polybag (6626) in a reusable snowglobe. It all fit once I shortened the model a little bit. The project was quick, materials cost just a few bucks, and no LEGO was damaged. It looks pretty cool (pun (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.belville, lugnet.fun.crafts)
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A couple of nights ago I decided to try to build a Canadian flag on a 16x32 baseplate. While I was looking for some reference flags online I realized that Canada's Flag Day was coming up. Head on over to the new Brickshelf gallery to see my version (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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(...) [Nitpick part snipped because it's correct... nothing to add] (...) I would say this "rijmpiet"[1] could be a proffessional, I'll tell him when I see him ;-) (...) Not at all, it's rather hard to translate a poem. [translation stuff snipped] (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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Yesterday I received my prize, and a wonderful prize it is! (thank you Richard!) Along with the book Richard wrote his own 'Sinterklaas'-like poem: It has come a long way, from that wooden shed, there are bricks you can code and books to be read. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Just a followup... We used about a dozen of the little sets from this year's advent calender; just used a loop of thread between a couple of the bricks, and most of them hung fine. We got lots of postive feeback from friends *and* family. :) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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I forgot to ask everyone if they would allow me to publish their efforts here - ooops, so here (after permission sought) is Anders Isaksson's entry :) The background to this is his entire family (five of them) had spent most of Christmas in bed (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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(...) Ah - my mistake! Thanks for the info though! (...) Thanks for the re-translation too :) Cheers, Richard (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: FREEBIE: "The Ultimate LEGO book" from DK
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 04:15:36 GMT, "Richard Franks" <spontificus@__nospa...yahoo.com> wrote: <nitpick> (...) Technically, Sinterklaas and Father Christmas are different traditions. Though I do believe the name "Santa Claus" originates with the Dutch (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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We have a winner! Frank Buiting sent in a story and poem combined which made me smile the most, not least because it describes a Christmas tradition that I would like to adopt! This is the tradition of giving gifts with a small poem attached - for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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Hi Russell, They do in Holland, I made an office building for an constructor firm. I hoped to get the stones back after several months, but they gave it away after the building has been on display for only 2 days and it tokk me several days to get (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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Does anyone know if the Ronald McDonald House takes toy donations? All I could find on their web site was info on monetary donations. Russell (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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I actually got two copies of this from friends and family at Christmas - ooops! Although it is a wonderful book, I can't really do that much with two copies that I can't do with one, so I'm going to give one of them away - Christmas Spirit etc :) I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Glass Globes for Underwater Displays
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A year or so ago, I was buying garden supplies online when I came across this item. A handblown glass aquarium for display of flowers. It has a rubber seal (removable for reuse) that the whole thing sits on in a black plastic tray. The end result is (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | Re: Donation Fun: Christmas toys
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(...) This is not a SERIOUS suggestion (this IS .fun... after all) but who's to say that we could not, with our community resources, create packaging that would look like a sealed package, sufficient to fool the mundanes. Actually I am NOT (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Well, for anyone else out there contemplating giving sets to Toys for Tots or some other program, here's what I learned. 1) Though Larry's idea above is a great and economical one, for safety reasons Toys for Tots only accepts sealed package (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: Donation Fun: Christmas toys
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www.etoys.com has a section now that has discounted toys that they're going to give to toys for tots. I was hoping to set something up with WAMALUG where we each give one little set and gather them up and give from the group (or something). (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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