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Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:06:29 GMT
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"Jeremiah VanderMark" <doggybot_37@yahoo.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:HDxM13.20zn@lugnet.com...
> Ahh, yes.
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> This part:
> http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=3062b
> will always be a "cannonball", courtesy my discovering Lego during the
> Pirate era.
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> Also, being far less creative than Tim as a kid, these:
> http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=3794
> were simply "dots".
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> 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 :)
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> -jeremiah-
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> My MOCpage: http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/83
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 use the name
"flats". But "flats" were not only used to describe plates but tiles as
well. It wasn't a prob with the larger plate sizes but how it worked with
smaller ones (2x2, 1x2) I've forgot.
Adr.
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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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| 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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