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Re: Enough with the microphones
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:26:21 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Matthew Miller writes:
If anyone has noticed, in most recent Shop at Home catalogs, the customer
service minifig (she looks like a cool babe with VERY COOL blue eyes and a
black ponytail) has an detachable mic. That is a sign that unstationary

Ok, I realize this is all in fun and all, but: if we as a community made up
largely of male geeks wish to avoid being lumped in with the comic book
store nerd from the Simpsons, it might be a good thing for us to not
automatically call every female minifig "such-and-such babe".

As far as I know, nobody calls Willa "such-and-such babe".



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  Re: Enough with the microphones
 
(...) Ok, I realize this is all in fun and all, but: if we as a community made up largely of male geeks wish to avoid being lumped in with the comic book store nerd from the Simpsons, it might be a good thing for us to not automatically call every (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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