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Re: Ode to 1x1 brown plates
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Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:08:18 GMT
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Very Nice! I actually wrote to Lego about this. I want to give Chewbacca
some height... they wrote back and said wookies can get in trouble for
heightening. Who knew?
:-)
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Grant Giandonato
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"Remy Evard" <evard@mcs.anl.gov> wrote in message
news:slrnah71u7.crh.evard@maze.evard.org...
> I'm missing a key piece,
> perhaps you relate.
> It's just a small piece,
> a 1x1 brown plate.
>
> My mountains have paths,
> that could be of wood.
> My chalets have brown walls,
> Or - well - they SHOULD!
>
> My huge bins of plates,
> they have no small browns.
> I dig through my "sort pile".
> But nope. I frown.
>
> I search through my basement.
> I look fast and mean.
> The Statue of Liberty's great.
> But too green.
>
> Yoda's all earthtone,
> and yields just tan plates.
> Harry Potter's magic fails.
> There's brown - but it's grates!
>
> I search all around.
> I stop and I think.
> I turn to The Resource,
> the almighty Bricklink.
>
> But Bricklink yields nothing,
> It looks like I'm stuck.
> So I check parts at Peeron.
> Hey I may be in luck!
>
> It seems that there's one set,
> one set that has brown.
> Oh no. It's Darth Maul's bust.
> Man, am I down.
>
> Oh LEGO, Oh LEGO,
> Why do this to us?
> It's such a small part!
> This is so unjust.
>
> I sigh to myself.
> I know what to do.
> I grab my swiss knife.
> And a brown ... one by two.
>
> -r'm
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| (...) If TLC company wrote me a letter explaining to me how wookies could get in trouble for anything, let alone heightening, I'd be framing that puppy. Great ode too =)) * thinks lego itself is poetry * so it's no chore for me to read poems about (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)
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| I'm missing a key piece, perhaps you relate. It's just a small piece, a 1x1 brown plate. My mountains have paths, that could be of wood. My chalets have brown walls, Or - well - they SHOULD! My huge bins of plates, they have no small browns. I dig (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jun-02, to lugnet.general) !!
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