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Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Allan Bedford
At the risk of branding myself a bigger geek than I already am, I have decided to post this anyway. :) While I'm building a model or sorting pieces, I sometimes refer to certain of my favorite pieces by a nickname... based on what that piece reminds (...) (21 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.general) !

	Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Tim Courtney
	(...) You, a geek, nah... ;-) (...) (URL) part is commonly referred to as a "jumper" plate or tile, since it allows for you to build on top of it in half-stud widths. (URL) best friend and I, potty humorists as we are, started calling this piece a (...) (21 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Allan Bedford
		(...) Whew! For a minute there I thought you were calling me a geek.... hey, wait a second! ;) (...) That's a fairly widely used term, isn't it? I guess I was thinking more along the lines of personalized nicknames for less common parts. As I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

			Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Maggie Cambron
			(...) Around our house my kids call this part (only in brown) "mommy hair": (URL) a while back I heard them singing a jingle from Cartoon Network which went: "...wherever you rub it you know it feels better because it is a typical head of Jesus." I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

				Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Rick Clark
				The full song is an instant classic. Performed by Brak on Episode 5 of "The Brak Show," the lyrics are: "Friendship is like an ointment When you've been stung by fifty bees. Wherever you rub it You know it feels better Because it's a topical (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

	Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Larry Pieniazek
	In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes: <snip> Bulldog? Hydrant? Hmm... (...) Um... well... not that I'm going to admit, I guess. (grin) More seriously, I actually don't do that. I try to memorise the LDraw names for stuff and use those (and I try (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Allan Bedford
		(...) You can admit it if you want... I promise not to make fun of any names you may have come up with. I started this silly thread, I'm certainly not one to poke fun at anyone else. :) (...) I meant to clarify something in my initial posting. I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

	Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Jeremiah VanderMark
	Ahh, yes. This part: (URL) always be a "cannonball", courtesy my discovering Lego during the Pirate era. Also, being far less creative than Tim as a kid, these: (URL) simply "dots". On a related note, "bricks" and "plates" were foreign concepts to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Adrian Egli
		"Jeremiah VanderMark" <doggybot_37@yahoo.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:HDxM13.20zn@lugnet.com... (...) Those were the days- when I really could say I was 12 (WOW, 20 years do fly by). My friends and I didn't use the name "talls" but sure did (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

			Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —John Riley
			(...) Maybe you called them as follows: My brother and I, in our early years, called plates "flats," tiles "smooth flats," (or sometimes just "smooth" as in "smooth 1 x 2") and slope bricks "tiles" (the last because of Lego S&H calling slope bricks (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

				Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Jennifer L. Boger
				Quoting John Riley <Rohnjiley@yahoo.com>: (...) To add some of my own nicknames for favorite LEGO parts: Old Pre-LUGNET/RTL days: tiles = smoothies plates = flats bricks = fatties/thicks studs = bumps Still think of to this day: universal joints = (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

				Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Stefan Garcia
				(...) "Ledges?" Interesting. I've never actually thought of them that way. Hmm...that gives me some new ideas. I've always called those thinwalls, and for the clear ones, trans-thinwalls. I also call 1x1 rounds "dots," though I tend to try to stick (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

	Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Ronald Vallenduuk
	The first ones that pop into mind are these: (URL) (gogles) (URL) (binoculars) and (URL) (hockey stick) I probably use more, some in dutch, but I can't think of them now... Duq "Allan Bedford" <ExpertBuilder-DELET...otome.com> wrote in message (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Tobbe Arnesson
		(...) Those are good! Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

	Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Mark D. McKean
	(...) (URL) always thought of these as "electric eyes", even though I can't recall having ever seen them used as such in an official set. That's just what they always looked like to me. And since my youth was spent almost entirely in Classic Space, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —James Stacey
		"Mark D. McKean" <qpanda@quantumpanda.com> wrote in message news:qpanda-309110.1...net.com... (...) the modelmakers at LEGO (well Legoland Windsor at least) call these 'washing machines'. -- James Stacey ------ www.minifig.co.uk Lugnet Member #925 (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

	Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts —Steve Bliss
	(...) A few years, there was a "Name that Brick" website, where you could post your suggested name for the current featured lego element. My favorite name to come out of the process: "Bearclaw" for (URL) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.general)