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Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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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.  :)

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.

Here are a couple examples of what I mean...

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.

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.

Anybody else have favorite parts to which you've applied nicknames based
either on their appearance or perhaps their function?

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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.general) ! 

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