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I have spent a couple hours looking for this on DejaNews and AltaVista, and I can't find it anywhere. A while back, we had a thread or two on rec.toys.lego, entitled "LEGO hits bottom." The idea was to propose imaginary sets which would "prove" LEGO (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That could have been me. Sounds like me. Definitely matches the opinion I held (and stated) at the time. But I don't remember if I thought of it, or was just responding to someone. Steve (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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I don't remember who said that either! "LEGO Nerf" does sound familiar - I can nod and pretend I said that. =) It seems like the dejanews archive is getting more and more delapidated as time goes by. -- Jeff <jthompson@esker.com> "Float on a river, (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It was actually the dream of Erik Wilson, and was a ski theme with a Saint Bernard dog element, at itsa.ucsf.edu/~erikr...dream.html . The LEGO hits bottom thing was at itsa.ucsf.edu/~erikr...itbot.html . Alan This message's random set is: (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I miss Erik. Why doesn't he post at Lugnet? And where's JD Forinash? He still posts at r.t.l. He never made the leap to Lugnet? (...) Hee. What do you do, roll 4d10 to generate a set number? =) -- Jeff <jthompson@esker.com> "Float on a river, (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) No, I go to brickset and take the random set from its random set number generator. Alan This message's random set is 8034, www.lugnet.com/pause...query=8034 (24 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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Alan Gerber wrote: May I make a suggestion? Put (...) "(URL) in this spot, in front of the www.lugnet part. (...) because then it's a usable link by a larger class of newsreaders than if you omit it. (24 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm finding the same thing, I've suggested it before to no avail, but I do think that we should get together and get/buy the rec.toys.lego and alt.toys.lego archive and bring it ove rhere to Lugnet. Those newsgroups are part of the heritage. (24 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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