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Re: you know you are a true AFOL when...
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Fri, 22 Dec 2000 14:49:06 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> 1.you go halfway across town in summer heat hoping to find the last copy
> of a discontinued set.
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> 2.you sit in bed and read lego catalogs.
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> 3.all you ask for for xmas is lego.
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> 4.you not only ask for lego for xmas, you have a specific list
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> and 5.you know so much about lego that you can tell whats in a xmas gift
> before you open it.
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 good idea what Dante's
5th level of hell is. As the saying goes: The devil lives in hell but rents out
Texas.)
2) It's not uncommon for me to go to bed with an old catalog, and in fact, last
night I fell asleep thinking about the Mega Core Magnetizer.
3) Well, I must be excused on this point - In addition to Lego, I have asked for
the beautiful new hard-back edition of Tolkien's Silmarillion for Christmas - O'
Mighty Tolkien! (By the way, the Great Master's birthday is January 3rd - he
would have been 99. May he live forever!)
4) Yes ideed, I did provide a specific list, with detailed instructions as to
set #, name, price, and location where they can be purchased.
5) It's hard to put one over on me if they just wrap the box - If it's on my
list, then chances are I'll know what it is by the shape and weight of the box.
james
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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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| 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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