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Re: Weird box from S@H
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 02:09:45 GMT
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Paul Davidson wrote:

I just got my latest order from Lego Shop@Home.

It came in a different box than usual.  This one is nondescript except for
large block letters on it saying "DIMWT 2".  What's strange, though, is that
someone has taken a black felt pen and stuck an "I" between the W and T, so
it says "DIMWIT".  Then they've scrawled a message beside it (on the top of
my package!): "You ordered a dimwit? Or is it fo (sic) a dimwit? Ho Ho"

How many other people have gotten packages in the mail with something like
that written on the box?  I have no idea if some at Lego or at the post
office wrote it. :)


I've gotten several of the DIM WT packages, none defaced.  In fact around our
house that's what we call them-- when my husband says, "Oh, BTW you got a DIM
WIT package today,"  I'm glad because I know I got an S@H order.

I doubt it was a LEGO employee (the joke would get old fast) but probably a
bored, malcontent postal worker.  I'd rather he or she express job frustration
using a black marker than something like firearms though!

Maggie C.



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  Dim Wit (was Re: Weird box from S@H)
 
(...) I am betting that a lot of S@H customers refer to the boxes as DIM WIT. I know I do. I like the Dim Wit 9 the best as those definitely hold more than a Dim Wit 2. In fact, I probably have about 30 Dim Wit boxes around the house with stuff in (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Weird box from S@H
 
I just got my latest order from Lego Shop@Home. It came in a different box than usual. This one is nondescript except for large block letters on it saying "DIMWT 2". What's strange, though, is that someone has taken a black felt pen and stuck an "I" (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)

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