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Re: Does anyone remember this?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 10 Feb 2000 22:36:21 GMT
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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.
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> 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.
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> Among other things proposed were "LEGO nerf" (Jeff Thompson?), and a couple
> other great sarcastic jokes.
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> There was one that went like this:
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> "LEGO polar base. White bricks. LOTS of white bricks. New polar bear
> element."
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> Now, what I want to know is...who had the crystal ball?
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> 8)
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> Rob
It was actually the dream of Erik Wilson, and was a ski theme with a Saint
Bernard dog element, at itsa.ucsf.edu/~erikred/brick/rtl/hit/skidream.html .
The LEGO hits bottom thing was at itsa.ucsf.edu/~erikred/brick/rtl/hitbot.html
.
Alan
This message's random set is: 8233, www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=8233
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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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