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Re: Remy's Big Lego Christmas! (was Re: Big Lego Christmas)
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Date: 
Sun, 2 Jan 2000 04:39:41 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.com (Larry Pieniazek) wrote in
<386CBF20.F4D0D6D0@voyager.net>:

Well,

Tom Stangl, VFAQman wrote:

That's just silly though.  You can't tell me that you only want ONE of
each and every set that's new for 2K.

You and I know that but the mundanes don't. If you get an instance of a
particular set, you have to expect that your mundane relatives won't buy
the "but I want MORE copies" argument and refuse to buy it for you.

I like the word "mundanes" so much that I have to followup to this one...

Larry's exactly right.  There are a lot of 2000 sets that I'll buy more
than one of for pieces, but those won't go on the list.  Lego gifts from
mundanes have to be new to you (or at least you have to say they are, and
I prefer to stay honest) for them to be happy about having given the set
to you.

-r'm

Remy Evard,  Argonne National Laboratory
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~evard   - Sorry, no Lego pages up yet
Supercomputing and systems administration by day, AFOL by late night



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  Re: Remy's Big Lego Christmas! (was Re: Big Lego Christmas)
 
(...) I'm chuckling here. So funny how an "in" group gives a name to the "out" group, the ordinary people. SCA people call non-SCAdians "mundanes"... SM people call non-sm'ers "Vanilla". I bet there are other similar things too. Kevin (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Remy's Big Lego Christmas! (was Re: Big Lego Christmas)
 
Well, (...) You and I know that but the mundanes don't. If you get an instance of a particular set, you have to expect that your mundane relatives won't buy the "but I want MORE copies" argument and refuse to buy it for you. (...) The dark side (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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