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Subject: 
Re: `Why Britain needs more Meccano and less Lego'
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk
Date: 
Mon, 9 Jul 2001 22:00:22 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Johannes Keukelaar wrote:

Hi all,

This is sure to cause some controversy and stir up some discussion on
this forum:
http://www.lineone.net/telegraph/2001/07/08/news/why_46.html

More discussion of this over on /.:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/08/221215&mode=nested

Now I'll just sit back and watch the sparks fly, I think.

I think Sir Harry hasn't checked out the crap Meccano is offering these
days.  "Erector, Jr." anyone?

Steve
Christopher! have you backed up your data?



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  Re: `Why Britain needs more Meccano and less Lego'
 
(...) I can only speculate that Sir Harry is referring to Meccano's Golden Age, which was anytime prior to the late 1960's. Meccano, in it's day, offered sets which allowed for an amazing range of building possibilities. They offered an astounding (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)

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  `Why Britain needs more Meccano and less Lego'
 
Hi all, This is sure to cause some controversy and stir up some discussion on this forum: (URL) discussion of this over on /.: (URL) I'll just sit back and watch the sparks fly, I think. Cheers, Johannes. -- It's a good thing money can't buy (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)  

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