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Subject:	Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:46:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron wrote: > Good try, but its something you would never have guessed. An American flag. > But don't worry, IIRC the stripes were just stacks of red and white (1 x n?) > plates and the blue area seemed to be more plates with probably six headlight > bricks to attach white 1 x 1 round plates to for the stars. I would think the > Union Jack [1] would be a bit more of a challenge. > > Maggie C. > > [1] Is it still called that? Is it PC to call it that? These days one is > afraid to say anything for fear of offending someone. Everyone still calls it that. I don't think anyone would be upset by what you call it, apart from the highly pedantic... ;-) Okay, so technically, it's the 'Union' flag. A 'Jack' is the national penant hung at the rear of a ship, so it's only the 'Union Jack' when it's being flown by the Navy. It's like calling the parliament clock tower 'Big Ben'; it's the tower of Big Ben. Big Ben itself is the bell inside. But everyone calls it that, regardless. Tour guides explain it in depth, and ten seconds later everyone's saying "ooh yes, we just saw Big Ben". Do you have, like, X-ray vision then or something? And the 'Barbary Apes' on Gibraltar are macaques, a monkey species, not apes. And Apple Pie is a German recipe, not American. And 'attendees' and 'standees' aren't proper words. And no one gives a ****, so why bother?... :-) I'd like to see them do the flag though, just to see if they can get the diagonal detail. Have a look at the diagonal red stripes on one. They're not centred on the diagonals, they're above and below the diagonal. It makes it a very subtle difference to spot if the flag's being flown upside-down. Of course, I don't hold out much hope based on this one. The American flag's either extremely old, or they skimped on the stars a bit... Jason Railton

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		Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
< Snip > Quote previous: And Apple Pie is a German recipe, not American. < Snip > Ah. But they immigrated here and brought their strudleie goodness with them. My wife's family is 100% German and Americanized quite well, which I think is the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
(...) Have you seen the one I did to liven up the loc.uk sidebar a bit? I've been meanign to tell you about it since your the big mosaicist. I plan to get a better lit pic soon and I've spotted one small error which I have to fix first. This is the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)

		Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
(...) I suppose we can blame one of your countrymen for perpetuating that misconception: "There was an Old Man of the Cape, Who possessed a large Barbary Ape; Till the Ape, one dark night, set the house all alight, Which burned that Old Man of the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
(...) Good try, but its something you would never have guessed. An American flag. But don't worry, IIRC the stripes were just stacks of red and white (1 x n?) plates and the blue area seemed to be more plates with probably six headlight bricks to (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

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