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Re: Geez! LUGNET is just too exciting!
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:43:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Rachel Kingston writes:
> OK this won't boost up your collection with the sets that you may want, but at
> least she'll have an interest in the set she's about to build, instead of
> having to be coerced into building, it also means that you could become REALLY
> broke trying to supply both of you with sets.
> This is what happened to us, "Hey, Rachel, Lego is really cool, check out the
> catalogue..." "No, I've never been into Lego, it doesn't do anything for me,
> oh, ok, I'll have a look......hey, the castle's are cool, wow, I dig the
> Pirate ships, have you got any of these sets? No, only town and train and
> technic, oh....."
> Three years later and many more thousands of dollars than I care to admit and
> I think he is starting to curse the day he ever showed me that catalogue, but
> at least I don't complain when he buys Lego!!!!!

My wife and I have a different problem: We're *both* into Castles.  Sigh.
This has its own unique accumulation of side effects...

;)

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/



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  Re: Geez! LUGNET is just too exciting!
 
(...) one (...) nice, (...) Guys, as a woman, let me give you a fresh perspective on this (and I'm speaking from my own experiences, before I get any timmy's thrown at me by women who love star wars, etc. Actually I love the movies, the Star Wars (...) (27 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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