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Re: The Law of Falling Lego
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 1 May 2000 14:41:37 GMT
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This is perhaps my biggest problem whenever I'm trying to rebuild an old
set.  The piece I need is ALWAYS in the one box that has been buried under
all the other boxes.

Dave


Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> wrote in message
news:20000430.213215.5095.0.braml@juno.com...
> "Greg Majewski" <citrusx__@yahoo.com> writes:
> > And after the initial shock of the impaled foot is felt, you are
> > unconciously driven to lift your foot off the ground very abruptly, • placing
> > yourself in the least stable standing position possible. Then after
> trying in >vain to grab hold of something, you fall over, either onto...
> 3) the tub that >the rest of your Lego is in, splitting the tub open and
> causing the contents >to spill out everywhere. The last one has actually
> happened to me on two >separate occasions.
> 
> All the boxes my LEGO is sorted into are rather large, so while building,
> I tend to stack them around me.  However, in order to be able to reach
> certain pieces, I often have to move boxes around or shift them, so most
> of the time, the boxes are precariously balanced.  When I reach over to
> grab a box just out of reach, I sometimes lose my balance and set my hand
> into the unsupported portion of one of these precariously balanced boxes.
>  If I'm lucky, the pieces spill only onto the carpet, and not into half a
> dozen other boxes...
> Enough rambling,
> --Bram
> 
> 
> Bram Lambrecht           / o   o \           BramL@juno.com
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  Re: The Law of Falling Lego
 
(...) placing (...) trying in >vain to grab hold of something, you fall over, either onto... 3) the tub that >the rest of your Lego is in, splitting the tub open and causing the contents >to spill out everywhere. The last one has actually happened (...) (26 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)

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