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Re: Does anyone remember this?
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Thu, 10 Feb 2000 22:24:48 GMT
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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, forever and ever, Emily"



In lugnet.general, Robert M. Dye writes:
> 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
> had run out of ideas.  I think the whole thing was inspired by theTime
> Cruiser sets.
> 
> Among other things proposed were "LEGO nerf"  (Jeff Thompson?), and a couple
> other great sarcastic jokes.
> 
> There was one that went like this:
> 
> "LEGO polar base.  White bricks.  LOTS of white bricks.  New polar bear
> element."
> 
> Now, what I want to know is...who had the crystal ball?
> 
> 8)
> 
> Rob



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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. (27 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)

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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 (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)

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