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Merry Christmas all! On Christmas Eve (Last night) I built a little vignette-style MOC, though on a larger scale: (URL) Enjoy, and thanks for looking! Merry Christmas!, -John "J1A3L5" Langrish. (20 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Homemade Xmas Gift: Magazine Rack from LEGO Bricks
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A couple of years ago, I got irritated by a stack of magazines laying around the house and decided to throw together a quick little holder for them using some DUPLO bricks. Later on my mother-in-law spotted it and asked if I would build her one. (...) (20 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX) !
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| | Re: Happy Christmas! from The Brick Testament
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(...) My Brick Testament Christmas card arrived in the post yesterday and it is BY FAR the best season's greeting I've received this year. In fact, stumbling across the Reverend's announcement the other day on one of my now rare visits to this site (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX)
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| | Re: Happy Christmas! from The Brick Testament
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Just received your card this morning here in the UK. I would like to say thank you for the time you spent doing this. As my wife said, it's lovely. Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Tim (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX)
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| | Re: Happy Christmas! from The Brick Testament
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(...) We just received our card today, and I wanted to give you a public thank you. The card it wonderful! My daughter had a great time setting up the scene and telling me the (entirely too long) story of The Little Drummer Boy. Thanks again! -Elroy (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX)
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| | Free "Story of Christmas" postcards now in NYC and Philadelphia
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In case you can't get enough (URL) Brick Testament: Story of Christmas> schwag (I know I can't), there are free Story of Christmas postcards now available in the (URL) Max Racks> in restaurants, gyms, and other fine establishments all around New (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.books, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny, lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi, FTX)
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| | Re: 8x9 foot LEGO menorah constructed in Burlingame, CA
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(...) Yeah, that also struck me as very odd. It hardly seems like LEGO to be so discouraging, and besides, what's so impossible about an 8'x9' LEGO menorah anyhow? I'm wondering if "It can't be done" was not LEGO's answer to "Is it possible to build (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX)
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| | Re: 8x9 foot LEGO menorah constructed in Burlingame, CA
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(...) I wonder who this rabbi talked to at LEGO, because telling him it was impossible seems silly. Anyways, the article didn't have any pictures, but I was able to locate (URL) another article>, which had one sorta (URL) bad picture>. Did anyone (...) (20 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX)
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| | new moc: holly berry wreath
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my christmas holidays have officially started and i can tell because there's a long list of things i should be doing and instead i'm building with lego! this is the fastest moc i've created and only my 2nd non-building moc. i've got christmas music (...) (20 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.build, FTX) !
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| | new moc: rudolph and his friends
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at our december parlugment meeting we had the honour of presenting a member with a small moc after having picked names for a secret santa gift (thanks to fellow member norbert black for this idea). members who participated put their names and (...) (20 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.build, FTX) !!
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| | 8x9 foot LEGO menorah constructed in Burlingame, CA
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I found out about this too late to go see it in action, but apparently a rabbi in Burlingame, CA (just south of San Francisco) built an 8-foot-tall, 9-foot-wide menorah, complete with candle holders and electric lights. Here an article about it a (...) (20 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: Happy Christmas! from The Brick Testament
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Hi, Samath. (...) Actually I recently bookmarked your page on LEGO geometry as a handy reference. (...) No problem. :) It's fun to share. (...) The original is worth a read. :) (...) What, you think Timmy is not a virgin? (...) Would it be heaven if (...) (20 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX)
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| | Re: Happy Christmas! from The Brick Testament
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OK, sent out another batch of about 25-30 cards. That's probably all I can get out before leaving town. Thanks again to everyone for the kind words. -Brendan (20 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX)
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| | Re: Happy Christmas! from The Brick Testament
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(...) It will be a very "Brick Testament" Xmas at our house this year - we'll be opening our family's "Holy Trinity" boxed set. And a A Brick Testament greeting card will just be icing on the cake. Maybe you should do an advent calendar next year - (...) (20 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX)
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| | Re: Happy Christmas! from The Brick Testament
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It's been a crazy day of signing and addressing cards, but I have now sent out over a hundred Brick Testament Christmas cards to people in seven countries on four continents. Every person who wrote me with their address and LUGNET member number (...) (20 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX)
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| | Re: Happy Christmas! from The Brick Testament
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Brendan Powell Smith wrote: (snipped 99.9%) (...) Thank you! Happy Holidays to you, too. Thanks for all the coolness. --Dave (20 years ago, 16-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX)
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| | Re: Happy Christmas! from The Brick Testament
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SNIPPY of a lot of nice stuff Hi Brendan, You may not know me because I only recently started posting, but I've been a big fan of your site and the general lego community for a year now. Thanks for sharing this with us. Bricktestament is the only (...) (20 years ago, 16-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Happy Christmas! from The Brick Testament
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Ol' Santa Brendan's got a couple of Christmas gifts for his friends at LUGNET! First is a sneak preview of the new website version of the "Jesus Is Born" story (as featured in my new book (URL) The Brick Testament: The Story of Christmas>): (2 URLs) (...) (20 years ago, 16-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.books, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.fun.crafts, lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX) !!
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| | Santa Claus Bust
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Here is my first foray into sculpture. He's not master builder quality or anything, but I'm pleased with it and he will definitely join the holiday decorations around the house for the rest of the season. (2 URLs) or (URL) Comments, critiques, etc (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.org.us.michlug, FTX) !!
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| | Holiday greeting card, 2004
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Here's a holiday card we knocked out this past week in order take advantage of the personalized card sale over at Shutterfly.com: (URL) After the positive reviews we got from recipients of (URL) last year's card>, we went for a goofier theme. The (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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