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Re: No W
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Date: 
Tue, 18 May 1999 03:07:54 GMT
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<giggle>

thanks Terry


Terry K <legoverse@geocities.com> wrote in message
news:3740a50a.2312478@lugnet.com...
> On Mon, 17 May 1999 16:51:07 GMT, Thomas Main <main@appstate.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I was looking through the 226 Idea Book from 1982 the other day and
> > noticed something odd.  There is a page which suggests making letters
> > and numbers from Lego bricks.  On two different examples the "W" is left
> > out.  Possible explanations:
> > 
> > There is no "W" in the Danish alphabet.
> > The "W" is too wide to model in Lego.
> > The "W" was the first letter to disappear from the minifig alphabet.
> > Subsequent generations dropped more and more letters, causing the
> > keyboard of today to have so few letters.
> 
> Exactly.  As the town-juniorization of Lego continues, more letters will • be
> dropped from keyboards until, finally, all that is left is a space bar.
> 
> -- Terry K --



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  Re: No W
 
Don't laugh, it might be true. -- Terry K -- (...) (27 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.general)

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(...) Exactly. As the town-juniorization of Lego continues, more letters will be dropped from keyboards until, finally, all that is left is a space bar. -- Terry K -- (27 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.general)

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