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Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:27:52 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.general, Rose Regner writes:
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> > I find this whole thread rather amusing. Put a few curves on a minifig and
> > it sends you guys into a boob frenzy.
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> Hey, if we all actually looked like lego minifigures we would all need to diet
> very badly -- well, maybe not if you looked like the lego skeleton.
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> But if you are gonna define a castle female mini, she has to be corsetted! To
> omit the wasp-waist would be just as great an act of omission as to forget the
> essentially useless chainmail on a male castle mini. Taking it one step
> further, its my understanding that many court ladies of the same period
> ACTUALLY went about with their breasts completely exposed above the corset.
> The only pictorial representation of this fashion that I can think of is an
> old John Bolton story in "A-1" magazine (a British comic anthology).
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> Apparently, Queen Elizabeth -- who reigned for so long -- followed this
> fashion to a point of embarassment for the rest of the court, continuing to
> expose her breasts long after they had lost their "essential" attractiveness
> to her advanced years! Not quite the image one gets from the terrific film of
> last year about Elizabeth, but there it is...
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> Perhaps those better informed can refute or support this historical claim of
> mine. My source, and I hope he wouldn't cringe to see his name here, is U.C.
> Berkeley English Professor and Shakespeare authority Hugh Richmond. I asked
> him about it one day, and turning his head slant-wise to me as if to get a
> better look at the upstart English major, he confirmed the essentials of what
> I have related here. I dunno, maybe at the time he would have preferred the
> discussion were more about Thomas Wyatt's poetry and less about my prurient
> interests...
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> -- Richard
rose ~
i think the new (and quite traditionally buxom) castle female, posed next to a
mini-fig that looks like kenny was just too much for some people (myself
included). at least richard here has gone into an _intellectual_ boob frenzy.
bravo!
most guys are pretty much in a perpetual state of boob frenzy, and are
continually on the look out for any reason (the stoopider; the better) that
would justify celebrating it.
later ~ craig
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