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Over the last couple of weeks the Australian group has caught up to the UK group in total number of posts. Despite the fact that Australia has an order of magnitude less in population and hence fewer posters here it seems that the ones they do have (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Today the UK, tomorrow the world (ie the USA)! Onward! (...) And who wouldn't be! Horoo Richie Dulin Patrician of Brick-Morpork (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Now, now. It's bad enough I have to put up with my fellow 'Muricuns thinking <the world> = <the USA>, I don't wanna see otherwise even-keeled and right-thinking Ozzies buying into that twaddle too. :) As far as .loc.au.* catching .loc.us.* in (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"James Howse" <jehowse@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GFB9K0.5J5@lugnet.com... (...) order (...) That's because we are all busy practising for the 1st test. It was inevitable that this would end up being a debate about cricket, so I though I (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) In my opinion as you have less population you always have been way ahead of us... But... do we know you have less posters? Perhaps Lego is just more popular among those who have some net accessibility in Australia. Perhaps culturally you just (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Well, I guess everyone eats their Vegemite toast and weet-bix!... Actually they do say that Australia has utilises computers far more than any other country in the world. And I guess that also means that on the personal side, we seem to have (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) pete.w (who wonders if they get a 1st Lego home buyers grant in Denmark) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hehehe, actually we have thought about (this is for the Lego room :)) having the floor in this room tiles, flat tiles so that Lego can be used straight onto the floor, carpet is a pain in the neck and Lego sinks into it, which also makes it (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) You're lucky...in some clubs down here they apparently have tampons in the toilet seats...supposedly a promo type thing for some new brand. They even had pictures in some of the newspapers down here. And with the jelly bean ones, I wonder how (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) ooooh no, no, no... no Lego Minifigs will be harmed during the making of the ultimate plastic Lego toilet seat :)... just bricks... I don't want some minifig staring at me :P (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) If your carpet is too thick, you can mow it, it won't grow back. Walking on Lego tiles, you will never get them off the floor baseplate. Toilet seats with baked beans might be more appropriate. Could Lego be set in resin ? Or might that damage (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) You place the minifigs in face down, so the only people they are looking at are male toilet users when they leave the toilet seat up. Ben, I picked up a Bionicle Mask display box, do you have any plans to get one of the large Bionicle display (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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From: "pete white" <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au> (...) grant) (...) The first part of our Lego home[1] arrived today (Yay!). It took 3 of us about 2 1/2 hours to unload it from the truck. Martin (who is rather sore from all the lifting) [1] When I say (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I hope it was MISB ? (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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From: "pete white" <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au> (...) work (...) It was, but I'm not going to keep the box, any takers :-) Martin (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hahaha, Peter you are a Dag! :P No Minifigs, one doesn't need an audience, otherwise you should join Big Brother! Unless you want the Lego version, then Big Brother really could be Lego's giant Minifig! (of course he comes with a camera). Mel (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I saw something recently where Canada got ranked #1 in terms of the amount of people using their computers to download porn. I think Australia was #2, and the USA a pitiful #3. Now if you'll excuse me there's another, uhm, web site I have to (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) We have Lego Studios, so we could do Lego Big Brother. The BUGs could build a big brother house and set for one of their meetings. (...) Lego changing rooms would be quick at minifig scale. You could even rebuild the whole house if you didn't (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Eeek! Better eat ya weet-bix for that one! (...) Mel (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) There was discussion recently (was it on the way to Briktoria?) about getting Don Burke to make over a 32x32 stud green baseplate on his show (as publicity for STUDS). (Hey, he could even use LDraw to do his CAD preview). Cheers Richie Dulin (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I knew we should have done something different and went to Dream World while I had these 'buy one get one free' vouchers! heh... We could have given them a good show I think! Just as long as it doesn't turn into Big Brothel! (...) It would but (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Richie... is this 'Morpork' the same as the NZ Native Owl 'Morepork'? heh :) Mel (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) "Debate" about cricket? What's to debate? ;^) (...) I thought a mod of the football sets might be in order. Do you have the board game "Test Match" in the UK? --DaveL (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) It would be nice...don't know if the boss would approve though :( Benjamin Whytcross (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatic...mblock.ca> wrote in message news:GFCynI.FpB@lugnet.com... (...) I think I saw this study. More worryingly, Australia was #1 in terms of what _proportion_ of its 'Net bandwidth/time was devoted to that (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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I've been reading this whole thread in some amusement... (what could one possibly debate about cricket, I was wondering...) when I came across this statement. (...) Ben, how exactly is it that you know this? :-) Oh. Newspaper pictures! Wow. (one (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Almost certainly not. However, the Brick-Morpork crest is thought to be an owl-like bird (possibly a Morpork) clutching a 2x4 brick. The 'Brick' part of the name comes from the river Brick which flows throgh Birck-Morpork. The Brick is so (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"Whatta we gonna do tonight, Brain?" "Same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!" -Shiri (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Oh... isn't it Penny? errr hmmmm ok that was Inspector Gadget Mel B (no... not a spice girl :P) "doo doo doo doo do Inspector Gadget doo doo doo do do...." (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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