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"Kelly McKiernan" <kelly@anagrafyxx.com> wrote in message news:Hx9zyp.13J@lugnet.com... (...) Isn't it even worse when certain Nazis take a few newsgroup posts a little too seriously? ;) It's not like someone's really going to connect LEGO with (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Awesome naming method! I had just gotten used to calling old/classic Grays & Browns "True Gray" & "True Brown," and the new grays and browns "false gray" and "false brown." I like your nomenclature better though. I think I'll start using it. (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) Why stop there? Call it Nazi Death-Slaver Grey and you get the whole spectrum. (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) OK, now that's just over the line. Assigning a color as "Nazi" is bad enough, but adding "Death Slaver" to it pushes it over. Don't like the color change? Fine. But I personally take exception when someone associates a relatively minor change (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) FYI, you might find this post of interest: (URL) Though I get the impression that "Wehrmachtsgrau" doesn't necessarily imply "Nazi" but military or army gray, instead. At least Babel Fish says it means "Armed forces-grey". Mark (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) It was intended in a sarcastic vein, which I appear to have failed to adequately express. I fully understand the logic behind calling it "Nazi grey" (I actually prefer "gun-metal grey"), on the basis that it's reported to be very close to the (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Color Change - color names - a more serious note
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(...) I have been having a bit of trouble with the Bricklink convention, that is the use of "bluish grey" (less with "reddish brown" however). It seems to me like a better solution would be to call them *cold* greys--which they really do seem to me (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.lego)
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