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Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 25 Apr 2003 23:41:02 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes:
> At the risk of branding myself a bigger geek than I already am, I have
> decided to post this anyway. :)
You, a geek, nah... ;-)
> Anybody else have favorite parts to which you've applied nicknames based
> either on their appearance or perhaps their function?
http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=3794
This 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.
http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=4073
My best friend and I, potty humorists as we are, started calling this piece
a "poo," since it's brown or black form could be used as horse droppings
(and we did when we were little). So now we say to each other, "I need x
poo's in y color" :-)
-Tim
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| 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 (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.general) !
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