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| | | (...) But if you called a privateer a pirate, you'd probably get a sword though your tripes. The two things where quite different. Jonathan is right - the real pirates were a very nasty lot, just as bad as the Vikings. Peter Pan, Lego and Disney all (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Lego-Ideas. —Tony Priestman
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| | | | On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin Wilson (<389B0A61.B5C7C29C@...erve.com>) wrote at 17:20:33 (...) It depends whose side you were on. (...) Ahh. Because Pirates have already been romanticised by others into friendly, mostly harmless sailors and scallywags. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego-Ideas. —Damian Garcia
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| | | | | "Tony Priestman" <Tony@you-rang.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:GirkWYAmbym4Ewr...n.co.uk... (...) I agree. I always thought of and read about Vikings in the same light you shined on this thread. Pirates on the other hand, have almost always been (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego-Ideas. —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | (...) Hey, some of my best friends are (SCA) Vikings! :-) Seriously, the Vikings are being "rehabilitated" by historians at the moment but I suspect that the pendulum is doing what it normally does and swinging too far before ending up somewhere in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego-Ideas. —Tony Priestman
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| | | | On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Kevin Wilson (<389B97CE.70494074@...erve.com>) wrote at 03:23:58 (...) That's my point. If you look at all the LEGO themes, they've already *been* romanticised. eg. Western, Pirates, Castle. Give the historians a few more years' (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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