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Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:47:49 GMT
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"Mark D. McKean" <qpanda@quantumpanda.com> wrote in message
news:qpanda-309110.13063026042003@lugnet.com...
> In article <HDx8oo.14E7@lugnet.com>,
> "Allan Bedford" <ExpertBuilder-DELETE-TO-REPLY@apotome.com> wrote:
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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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> http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=4070
> I've always thought of these as "electric eyes", even though I can't
> recall having ever seen them used as such in an official set. That's
> just what they always looked like to me. And since my youth was spent
> almost entirely in Classic Space, I hadn't seen them used as headlights
> until after my Dark Age.
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> --
> Mark D. McKean - The Quantum Panda - qpanda@quantumpanda.com
the modelmakers at LEGO (well Legoland Windsor at least) call these 'washing
machines'.
--
James Stacey
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Lugnet Member #925
I'm a citizen of Legoland travellin' Incommunicado
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