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Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 26 Apr 2003 03:36:39 GMT
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Ahh, yes.
This part:
http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=3062b
will always be a "cannonball", courtesy my discovering Lego during the
Pirate era.
Also, being far less creative than Tim as a kid, these:
http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=3794
were simply "dots".
On a related note, "bricks" and "plates" were foreign concepts to me and
my brother; we always called them "talls" and "flats". Couldn't even be
consistent, let alone proper :)
-jeremiah-
My MOCpage: http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/83
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. :)
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> 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 me of.
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> Here are a couple examples of what I mean...
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> When I look at this part:
> http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=6215
> I often call it a 'bulldog' since its rounded blunt end reminds me of the
> nose of a bulldog.
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> Similarly when I am using this part:
> http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=4733
> I sometimes call them 'hydrants' because to me they appear as little tiny,
> albeit square, fire hydrants.
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> Anybody else have favorite parts to which you've applied nicknames based
> either on their appearance or perhaps their function?
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> Regards,
> Allan B.
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| "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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.general) !
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