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1.you go halfway across town in summer heat hoping to find the last copy of a discontinued set. 2.you sit in bed and read lego catalogs. 3.all you ask for for xmas is lego. 4.you not only ask for lego for xmas, you have a specific list and 5.you (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes: [snip] (...) 6. You go grocery shopping and find the display of promotional Lego and need another shopping cart. 7. You aren't afraid to admit the sets are for yourself in the checkout at TRU. 8. You go to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 10. You've emptied out the cabinet under the bathroom sink for room to store Lego 11. Your friends from work get embarrassed over your enthusiasm at the BOGO sale, and tell the clerk at K-mart you are shopping for your little boy... yet you (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ROFLMAO! That's me. I sent out an email with all set #s, as well as wish lists from eToys and Lego shop at home. (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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"> 7. You aren't afraid to admit the sets are for yourself in the checkout at TRU. When I bought the LoM sets a few weeks ago, the guy at the counter said 'some kids gonna be happy this Christmas' and I said 'I am' He got a strange look on his face (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Or drive for more than 80kms to a LEGO outlet store to find special sets, and did not buy anything big because 1) the code pilot is much weaker than the RCX, 2) You already bought the 8458 at a much better price, and 3) they don't have service (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) TRU. (...) 15. Your sister in Southern California informs you she has managed to find two of the rare Shell Lego sets and they are wrapped and on their way as presents to your kids, and you lie awake at night trying to think of the best way to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 16. If you find that friends or relatives are reluctant to buy LEGO for you, you convince them that "what you really want" are storage containers and drawers like everybody else keeps screws/nails/electrical parts in. Only you know that you (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 19. You come home from the club at 3am and decide to check buy-sell-trade *just* in case WalMart started an early Christmas clearance sale (seeing as how the WM- SC is open 24/7) ;) Okay, whos turn is it ? Ray (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Guilty on all counts as charged: 1) I've been known to scour the city's blighted K-Marts for miles and miles in search of a good bargain. (If you've ever experienced a Houston August, in traffic, without air-condition, then you have a pretty (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 20. There is LEGO in every room of your house. No matter where you are in your house, you can see at least one thing LEGO. 21. Your X-mas tree has ornaments built from LEGO. 22. You find practical applications for LEGO. 23. After a few days (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Gotta disagree with this one. I just said "Lego is always nice." on the assumption that any Lego is good Lego. :) Of course, if I wind up with Duplo Mickey Mouse sets, I may be more specific next year... -JDF (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I found a LEGOLand bonus pak -- it's a bundle of the LEGOLand software, and Adventurer's set 5936 (Spider's Secret). It's a largish box, but not the right size for a LEGO set. And when you shake it, it sounds like software (the sound is like (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ... and wish you had more catalogs!! You travel (miles) back to the shop whose inventory you know off by heart just to check whether THAT set is really THAT price and does include THAT piece/fig. You stand in the shop and mull over a (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 20. You take and prepare a 3 page list of all the major (and most minor) retailers of LEGO complete with street address and phone numbers, as well the map coordinates for some in the local Hudson's street map book . 21. When checking out at (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 24. You get really melancholy when you see a large pile of Classic Space LEGO being sold on ebaY in individual lots---one for each *colour*. KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 22. Eric Harshbarger admires your work. (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ... only 3 pages ? I just checked, my DB (which covers all of FL, and the southern half of GA and AL) contains 650+ entries. Someday I want to add latt/ long to it so that I can calculate radial distances from a GPS receiver :) Ray (who knows (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 24.01.01 You take early retirement because being gainfully employed was interfering with what you really want to do. (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ....... 2?. When you go to the store to get whatever, spy something new you would like or need (non-lego) and think of how much in lego you can buy for whatever the item may cost. ( I am a victim of this :o) (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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21?.When you have lots of sets proudly displayed in your office at work. 22. You have some of your MOC's displayed at work. 23. You have a 5 tier metal shelf at work to hold them all. 24. When you move into a new office the maintenance guys say "you (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Mine is single line per store location with proper formatting, I don't the desire to hit all of my Minnesota and any border areas of the other nearby states. Did I mention that I always have a copy in the car? :^) Mike (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) hope that hasn't been mentioned. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 26. You get nothing but lego for christmass but you are annoyed that the shops are closed on boxing day because you have to wait another day to buy even more lego. 27. You ring every toy store in the phonebook to get all of the sets in a (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) So you mean it wasn't just me who did this huh? -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. whom all the toy stores know by voice. (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hm. Who do you work for and are they hiring? 8) J (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow...they close stores the day after Xmas? That's...that's downright un-American, that is! 8) We of course don't have 'boxing day', but if we did, it'd have another meaning - the day when you 'box up' all the stuff you got that you didn't (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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Hmm lets see I AM the supervisor of my department and the ONLY one I answer to is the company prez. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D.<--at work right now with his new UCS X-wing trying to find all the bags for another thread. "Jeff Johnston" (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If you did that, you'd be in Canada. :) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 28. You get a dog, so she can buy you *exactly* the Lego you want for Christmas & birthday. ROSCO (Just kidding - I actually had my best friend before I left my "dark age", but she does come in handy 8?) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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guito wrote in message ... (...) or New Zealand. Boxing Day here is now a sale day and this year 3 store chains (DEKA, Farmers and The Warehouse) had 30% off all toys. Alan J Smith (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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...29. you stay up until half past three in the morning just to place your auction bid approx. 5 seconds before the ebay auction closes in a time zone you never had heard of before..... Arnold (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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brickhead <astan@gmx.net> wrote in message news:G6B09x.89A@lugnet.com... (...) auction bid approx. 5 seconds before the ebay auction (...) hehehehe, I don't feel so weird now! I've stayed up till about 4:15AM. for 5 different auctions at once. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) AHhhh HA! So you're the ones! :) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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