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    LEGO Riddle....... —Gary R. Istok
   It's a slow day on LUGNET today, so I'll ask a LEGO Riddle.... What pieces are we.........???...??? We're two different LEGO Bricks, and we basically haven't changed since LEGO came out in the mid 1950's (1955 or 1956). Our only real change (besides (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: LEGO Riddle....... —Allan Bedford
     Well, it's a slow day in my brain, so I can't be sure... but here is my guess: 1. The common piece would be the basic 1x1 2. The rare pieces might be the 'macaroni' bricks. I think that's what they're called. I'm thinking of the ones that are (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: LEGO Riddle....... —Gary R. Istok
     Good answer..... Allan and GBR both got it right! 1x1 and 2x2 quarter circle (macaroni) are correct. The Sloped bricks first came out a few years later (1958) when TLG finally got the binding brick solution (tubes), otherwise sloped bricks would not (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: LEGO Riddle....... —Gregor Benedikt Rochow
     (...) The macaroni brick, and the 1x1 brick (the latter assuming that the tubes include the 1xX pins). -gbr (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: LEGO Riddle....... —Tamyra Teed
   I'm going to guess slopes.. normal and inverted, especially corners. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
 

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