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Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:07:08 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Adrian Egli writes:
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> "Jeremiah VanderMark" <doggybot_37@yahoo.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
> news:HDxM13.20zn@lugnet.com...
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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
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> 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.
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> Adr.
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 "roofing tiles"). When I had my first taste of LDraw,
I was understandably confused. Mostly corrected now. I also called 1 x X
bricks "thin bricks" and 2 x X bricks "thick bricks."
The 1 x 2 x 1 panels were always "ledges" to me.
I've always thought of this part
http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=3963
as a PA (public address) system or loudspeaker (as opposed to the minifig
loudhailer, which I call a megaphone). My first taste of this piece was on
police stations and raceways. I still never recall where it is in LDraw.
I'm curious at some of the names for this part:
http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/x179
I'm not particularly fond of this name, and while modeling it (currently an
unofficial part in the Parts Tracker) I had interesting conversations with a
reviewer on what the bottom details should be called. I called them "tabs:"
he called them "flares." I ended up putting both as keywords.
John Riley
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 | | Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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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)
| | | Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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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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| | Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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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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