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"Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium." -- Jean Shepherd, "A Christmas Story" (a.k.a. "In God We Trust: All Others (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) nope, technically they are "studless beams" if they are full-thickness and "halfbeams" if they are half-thickness Liftarms contain 1 or more cross axle holes. (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Good point. I'll have to join Ondrew's camp, as it seems he has given this much logical thought with supporting arguments (and not went into profane rants and raves like some others (we can all figure out who the worst ones are). I have not (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think this post does a nice job--WITHOUT LANGUAGE!!! (Remember, we have children checking out this site.) (URL) Lyttle (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hey Bruce S., I didn't reallize you were also local. Is there a requirement that all AFOLs named Bruce live in Southern California? Bruce (Hietbrink, not Lowell or Schlickbernd) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ken Koleda, 39 (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) To clear up any continued confusion: Bruce Hietbrink runs (URL) Brick Tales> I, Bruce Lowell, or "Brucey-Wan", run the creatively titled (URL) Bruce's Homepage>. (2 URLs) (Bruce) (URL) LEGO @ Bruce's Homepage> (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Seth McCarus, 26 (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Light Gray is my favorite Lego color. I can never have enough of it. The variety of parts that are currently available in Light Gray will *never* be manufactured by Lego in the new color. Eventually this will make complex construction in a uniform (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Open are the double doors of the horizon Unlocked are its bolts Clouds darken the sky The stars rain down The constellations stagger The bones of the hell hounds tremble The porters are silent When they see this king Dawning as a soul Men fall (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) As Ryan noted... kids may not care at all about this, much less even notice it. (...) Then how do you explain the Designer Sets? They were resoundly declared by the community as a positive shift back toward the core values of creativity. I'm (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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To everyone at LUGNET and LEGO, I want to say this: I was first introduced to LEGO when I was five. My family and I were going on a long road trip and my parents bought me LEGO set #565 5+ Build-N-Store Chest to keep me occupied during the long (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) !!
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(...) There were many complaints about "new colors". Google searches of rec.toys.lego will easily uncover such postings. Here's a quote from Charles B. Naumann (cnaumann@HiWAAY.net) way back on 1998/06/24, "I am personally tired of all the new (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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Grey is for castle walls, Grey is for Space ships, Grey is for Town Churches, 'new-Grey' is for inconsistency... Don't fool yourselves TLC, Kids WILL notice and say: "Mommy look, it doesn't match." And that's just the effect on the youth, on anyone (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) snipped out (...) First, "Thank You." I appreciate that you've done some researching for us and share much the same opinions already expressed. Now, I've got this idea but I honestly don't know if it would work so maybe someone out there could (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Aren't those just liftarms? The regular technic beams are still being made, afaik.... >> Mark (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, John Gerlach wrote: SNIP (...) SNIP (...) 10 or 12?!, wow, I'm OLD, I remember that: red, yellow, blue, white, black, (these 5 were in a wide selection of pieces) gray (few pieces, mostly classic space slopes, plates & tools: NO (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hi all, With all of the 'gray storm clouds' being discussed on LUGNET this week, I fear this MOC announcement may get lost in the brouhaha. But the final pieces arrved from Germany in an amazingly short time (5 days!), so I went ahead and finished (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.moc) !!
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(...) Well, you could do something like this: (URL) or build a truss like so: (URL) or: (URL) Probably not quite as strong as the technic bricks, though. Cheers, Mark FUT lugnet.technic (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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