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Re: Semi random search leads to interesting article
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Sat, 6 Jul 2002 03:24:54 GMT
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Interesting. I especially like the 28,700 yellow rafts and 26,400 minifig
life preservers in there. Would've expected *those* to be the parts to
survive. :)
I remember this article, but I wonder if there has been any follow-up? It
would be interesting to see how far the survivors got.
-jeremiah-
In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
> My girlfriend just told me she heard an interview on NPR with some guy who
> is building the bible out of Lego. Last name of Smith. Sound familiar? ;-)
>
> So I go looking on the NPR site and randomly find a link to a story I'd
> almost forgotten about.
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> Remember the Lego that was accidentally dumped in
> the ocean off of Land's End in the UK? I know this has been talked about
> before on Lugnet and I think RTL but I thought I'd bring it up again because
> its so surreal.
>
> I found a small article on this at the NPR site that was in REAL
> format..which I despise, so I go searching more and found this:
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> http://www.beachcombers.org/archive/sum97.htm#LEGO
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> If you *squint* you can make out most of the parts on the list thats next to
> the article... (why someone would have an image of a barely readable text on
> their website is beyond me..maybe I'll contact the guy who runs the
> site..actually do any of you have a copy of this list?) Look at all of the
> Ocean themed elements. Nice bit of irony.
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> Imagine laying on a beach and having thousands of Lego parts just wash up.
> Sigh..
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> -Jon
>
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| (...) It (...) I contacted the author of the article to find out what had washed-up. His reply said: Lego from the lost shipment washed up in Cornwall and along the southern North Sea near Zaandvoort. Non so far across the Atlantic in North America. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.general)
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| My girlfriend just told me she heard an interview on NPR with some guy who is building the bible out of Lego. Last name of Smith. Sound familiar? ;-) So I go looking on the NPR site and randomly find a link to a story I'd almost forgotten about. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.general)
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