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Re: you know you are a true AFOL when...
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Fri, 22 Dec 2000 05:33:15 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Thomas D. Fulk, Jr. writes:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:16:22 GMT, "rich moberg" <3zero@home.com>
> wrote:
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> > In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> > [snip]
> > > and 5.you know so much about lego that you can tell whats in a xmas gift
> > > before you open it.
> >
> > 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 see your nephews and try to get them to sell you the old Lego
> > your mom gave them after you moved out.
> > 9. You have minifigs on your wedding cake.
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> 10. You've emptied out the cabinet under the bathroom sink for room
> to store Lego
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> 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 have no children.
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> 12. When you go to the mall, instead of browsing the tool section at
> Sears with your buddies you're on a mission to KB toys to be sure they
> haven't found any old Lego in the stockroom and clearanced it.
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> 13. You are Christmas shopping and see parents or grandparents
> debating which set to buy their kid, and by the time you get through
> talking with them they have asked if you work for Lego, because you
> sure seem to know a lot about it.
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> 14. Your friends want to bring their kids over to your house just so
> they can "see all that Lego"
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
swap them with the more common sets so that you can have them and no one will
be the wiser.
Maggie C.
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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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| (...) 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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