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Re: Be my (LEGO) Valentine
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Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:06:08 GMT
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"Anthony Sava" <savatheaggie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:HALq3A.HGK@lugnet.com...
> I wasn't going to post this, but my Valentine told me it was worth • posting.
> Personally, I think she's a little biased. ;) Anyway, here is my story • about
> my LEGO Valentine:
>
> Before Valentines day, I was sitting at home working on my current • project,
> when I noticed I had a lot of spare red 2x2s.
>
> And of course the thought came to me to make a little red Heart for my
> Valentine. Heck, it might win me some points, if ya know what I mean.. • wink
> wink nudge nudge...
>
> So I created a little red Heart out of red 2x2s. Didn't look bad. Didn't • look
> all that good either. My Heart was too small, my Heart's shape didn't • look
> quite right.
>
> All right, bigger, yeah, bigger Heart, more voluptuous, more detail in the
> curves.
>
> So I built a bigger red Heart out of 2x2s. Not bad. It's big, looks like • a
> Heart, and it's... red.
>
> Too plain. So I dug out all the white 2x2s I could find and made a border
> around my red Heart. Nice, very nice.
>
> But now the border made my plain red Heart look too... plain.
>
> OK, gotta write something in my Heart.
>
> What to write? Be Mine works, but it's a little Valentines day only. I • knew
> if I gave my Valentine a LEGO heart she would...
>
> 1.) Never let me disassemble it (good thing they were spare 2x2s)
> 2.) Want to show it off 365.25 days a year (counting leap year of course)
> 3.) Fall in love with me all over again (a gamble at best)
>
> So I needed to write something in my Heart that was a universal thing,
> something that would work year round. Hmm...
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> "LOVE"
>
> Yes, LOVE works. It's universal, works with a red brick Heart with a • white
> brick border. I'll do LOVE.
>
> ACK! My LOVE is too big! Letters based on a width of four and a height • of
> five (all capitals) didn't fit in my Heart.
>
> Ok, time to shrink my LOVE.
>
> ACK! The capital letter 'E' doesn't like being only four bricks high! • (Bricks
> only, no plates)
>
> Back to five high. But my nice red brick Heart with the white border is • too
> small for my 'LOVE'.
>
> Gotta break my Heart. Redesign my Heart. I shall rebuild it. Make it • faster,
> stronger, better... The Million Dollar Heart! Ok... not quite.. too much
> coffee.
>
> I built my LOVE, and surrounded it with red bricks (not all 2x2s of • course)
> with a one brick width between them.
>
> Now to build my Heart around my LOVE.
>
> Alright then, my Heart is half built and about a third bigger than the • original.
>
> But wait. My 'LOVE' isn't enough! Something's lacking. Something's • missing.
> Something needs to be placed under my LOVE to hold it up.
>
> I know! YOU! YOU will hold up my LOVE. All right, a plan! Now to build • YOU.
>
> But wait! My LOVE is odd! And YOU are... err... is even! ACK!
>
> Ok, I can't have YOU, but I could have U.
>
> All right, U can be odd too, just like my LOVE.
>
> So I put U in my Heart under my LOVE and finished my red Heart with a nice
> white border.
>
> But my Heart doesn't stand up too well on it's own, it needs a good • foundation.
> So I'll build a good solid square white foundation. Not bad.
>
> So I give my Valentine my Heart, and she hugs me tightly and says thank • you.
> After all, what better way to express my LOVE than through the medium in • which
> I work.
>
> But a few days later I was looking at my Heart, and thought it looked a • bit
> off. Maybe I should redesign it. So I tell my Valentine that I think my • Heart
> looks off, and she helps me decide what to do.
>
> First I tried to fix the 'V' in my LOVE to look more like a 'V.' That • didn't
> work. 5 high and 4 wide, I couldn't think of a way to make 'V' look any • more
> like a 'V.'
>
> Then I tried to see if I could make the humps of my Heart look more round.
> That didn't work. I turned to my Valentine and she looked at me and • smiled.
>
> 'I love your heart just the way it is' she said.
>
> That made me almost forget about changing my Heart ever again.
>
> But right after she said that line, that wonderful thing she said to me, • after
> saying that wonderous, loving, reassuring phrase, she said:
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> 'But ya know what would have made it look better...'
>
> Ugh... Women... At least my original plan of a dozen roses was a success!
>
> So here's a photo of my Heart. I don't think it's all that great, but my
> Valentine said it was, so here you go.
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/savatheaggie/heart/legoheart.jpg
>
> --Anthony
50 points for the Heart
100 points for the Instructions
I bet your Valentine will celebrate with you for a long time.
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