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Re: ARGH!
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:42:56 GMT
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I'd pay big bucks for an air filter that entertaining!
My own ultimate "ARGH!" was walking into a store filled with tons of old
sets and then looking up at the ceiling to see that they had a GIANT set of
the surface of the Death Star. Then I woke up.
ARGH!
Dave
"David Eaton" <deaton@intdata.com> wrote in message
news:Gutq8o.Jz4@lugnet.com...
> So I was looking at the new S@H catalog, desperately wishing for something
> that might have an abundance of grey tiles. And I saw that they had a new
> Legend set out: a 4.5v train set I had never seen. It was some sort of a
> "railway layer" car with straight rails "stored" upright on one end and a
> bin on the other end-- filled with 1x2 and 2x2 tiles. I was overjoyed.
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> Next to it in the catalog sat the Santa Fe-- suprisingly raised in price • to
> $1097. "Odd," I thought. "Glad I bought one for $40!" But for whatever
> reason I didn't think any more of it than that...
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> But below both of these beauts was my biggest shock: they brought back the
> monorail! And what's more, in the caption for the picture, it said • something
> along the lines of "Filters your air while it runs!" Wow! What a great • bonus!
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> I couldn't put off ordering for another instant. I woke up, jumped out of
> bed and... Oh. Darn.
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> DaveE
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| (...) It's strange but I also have sometimes this dream that I'm in some local store filled with MANY OLD sets from 80's ! No joke ! Really... It's always an fantastic dream. Rene (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.general)
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| So I was looking at the new S@H catalog, desperately wishing for something that might have an abundance of grey tiles. And I saw that they had a new Legend set out: a 4.5v train set I had never seen. It was some sort of a "railway layer" car with (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.general)
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