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Subject: 
Re: Greed?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 02:29:59 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Richard Noeckel writes:
In lugnet.lego.direct, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
it is greed that makes people wanting to have these legends...

Greed?
GREED??
   G R E E D?!?!?!

Whoa… maybe you look @ the hobby in a different manner that I.
But ‘Greed’ isn’t a term I'd apply to my ‘yearning’ for a 375.

~Perhaps your word usage is flawed?

Yes, perhaps it is. Ben is E2L(1), please keep that in mind, and sometimes
that causes misunderstanding. Reading over your words and his, I don't find
that much disagreement, believe it or not.

(I'm in the camp that's glad any time Lego, in any shape or form,
(re)releases a good set, in any shape or form... would I rather that the set
was way different than any released before, but still good? Sure. But I'll
take it (the good set, whatever the source(2)) either way)

Hope that helps.

1 - old IBMTEXT shorthand for (E)nglish as a (2)nd (L)anguage...

2 - More MOC sets please, and hurry!!!! And that's all I am going to say
about that.

++Lar



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(...) Thanks for elaborating on that! I too knew that English was his 2nd Language and therefore I endeavored to point out that the discrepancy may exist in translation. (...) I tried too… I hope I didn’t come across as impolite. I like Ben and (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)

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  Greed?
 
(...) Greed? GREED?? G R E E D?!?!?! Whoa… maybe you look @ the hobby in a different manner that I. But ‘Greed’ isn’t a term I'd apply to my ‘yearning’ for a 375. ~Perhaps your word usage is flawed? I don’t see anything gluttonous, or insatiable (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)

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