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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 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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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 = (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) "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 (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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