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(...) I stayed up late last night building it: midnight to dawn pretty much, but it is a very cool and huge model.(some of the time was wasted because I had to half pull it apart once or twice so I could build it properly (it's hard to follow (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Richard if you buy the sets i would be interested in buying the cars let me know. Have a good one . Craig (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yup, they'll be yellow, but they'll be there. (...) that come with that set? Richard Still baldly going... (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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That's embarassing for Scotland. I realize that the Aussies aren't push-overs, but a 2-0 scoreline? U.S. beat Barbados 4-0! On to the qualification finals! (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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The coast is certainly not clear! I know I'm probably doing myself a disservice by revealing this, but TRU at Pacific Fair has Lots of Lego, still at 25% off (that means that the UCS XWing and Tie and the Millenium Falcon (or Fawlcon for those of us (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Dick Smith have it for $297 (a saving of a whole $2!). If you want to see their Lego range, go to: (URL) enter "Lego" into the search box. Clicking on the individual entries will pull up more information, including the retail stores that (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Funny that, Oh well they might still be there next Easter for that 20% sale. We should be grateful for the cheaper than expected UCS sets and the soccer sets. When you consider the 3409 retails around US$50. So thanx to LA or TRU or whoever. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Myers in Melbourne have a batch of the Stephen Speilberg Movie Studio sets in at $299. They also have a lot more Mindstorms accessory sets in now, than they did when they had the 20% off sale :-( Martin (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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um, perhaps you could rotate the picture 180 degrees so that it would be right side up? just a thought... Build On! John Matthews Jonathan Wilson <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message news:3A127666.DBC44B....com.au... (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.au)
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But no useful stuff, like PHP, CGI or anything. Just plain old HTML. (Which is probably sufficient.) ROSCO Jonathan Wilson <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message news:3A128F2E.CE2E48....com.au... (...) accounts? (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) yes xoom (or nbci as its now called) offers free accounts. (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Santosh Bhat wrote in message ... (...) (about (...) anyone (...) at. (...) I don't understand... wouldn't a geocities account (~10meg) handle this sort of thing easily, for free? What about Xoom.com, do they offer free accounts? Cheers, Paul (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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pictures are here (URL) models are all made from only the parts in the origonal 8 throwbots and the yellow throwbot arm is the only piece that was left The slizers are as folows 8550 heat slizer, red and white 8551 air slizer, light blue and black (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.au)
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I must have scanned it in upside down :( (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.au)
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A great effort! I see everything really is upsidedown down under! (URL) A (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.au)
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The pictures of my ute[1] that was done in 8448 scale using mostly parts from an 8448 and a few parts from some smaller technic sets are now up at (URL) is built on a chassis that is mostly the same as the one on the 8448, the main change was to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.au)
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Dear all I'll be coming with Peter Parsons so I no longer need a lift. Thanks Tim (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au.qld.bri)
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I was planning on putting something together during my summer holidays (about 3-4 weeks off) and giving it a show off after then. But Feel free for anyone else to make one. The only problem is that i don't really have a suitable server to put it up (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Hiya all... I was just wondering, if we have an Australian National Lego Users Website? One that has links to all of the different groups...and everyones webpages? I guess a LegOz site? Kev... : ) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Close Encounters
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(...) Yes, Mr Squiggle! (25 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hello Kerry, Sorry for being slack, I will be there. (I missed the first one). I live in Alexandra Hills, I can give a lift to others if needed. looking forward to it. Gary Quinlan (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au.qld.bri)
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(...) What about Club 0937? Upside down Miss Jane! Braith (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | How to be a STUD Re: Close Encounters
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(...) I think that the studious (NPI[1]) avoidance of any photos of people from any of our meets should give the lie to the thought that we are paragons of male form. OTOH we are all pretty keen on Lego (even those of us that sully themselves by (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Close Encounters
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(...) Personally I didn't see the problem with STUDS as a name. I can see that in a general context, it might be construed as being an all-male group who think they are God's Gift To Women. However, in the context of Lego, is there really a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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As a non-driver, I was wondering if anyone coming from the Southside could give me a lift to Kerry's place. I live in New Farm and have been to Kerry's before so I have a decent idea where it is. Thanks in advance Tim (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au.qld.bri)
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Sorry about my sleep deprived crosspostings last week: at least it seemed to boost the .loc.au traffic . I liked the following the best: In lugnet.org.au, David Low snips: (...) Does Club 2390 or a variant appeal to anyone else? --DaveL (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Okay. The decision in advance that "a usage is wrong" is subjective (and legitimately so) from the relativist viewpoint. And you're right, it will only appeal to people sharing those cultural norms of grammar and aesthetics (hence the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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What's the story with everyone else? I've had a Yes, I'm coming from Aaron Coghill, Tim Gould and Peter Parsons, and thundering silence from the rest of you. Kerry (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au.qld.bri)
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(...) Butting in from outside. I don't think Tim is asking that threads not be started here if they're of potential loc.au readership interest. Merely that they be followed up to elsewhere. Interested readers will follow, uninterested will ignore. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I will mark it down on my diary 10.00 should be OK. Now all I need to do is find your place. Regards Peter (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au.qld.bri)
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(...) Given that org.au is already being abused (in an officially-sanctioned way), I was thinking that the solution may be to keep loc.au a pristine place for chatting about Lego in its purest form, while letting org.au be the place for all the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | MSFC Lego building competition
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Hi everyone for those who couldn't make it, here is the link to some pics from the Melbourne Science Fiction Club's Lego Building Competition last Friday night Click onto the MSFC web page link below: (URL) there, just click on the "Message Board" (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Not comfy with clones here in lugnet.loc.au
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(...) No problem. MB is here, contrary to the group rules, only until someone complains. Me and MB are gone from .loc.au. Pity though, lower post count, and those who are interested now have two places to look. Should I steer clear of .org.au as (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Lego in Brisbane (was: Where are the Falcons)
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(...) I visited Myer Queen Street today and was impressed at the range of Lego available there. There was quite a large wall area devoted to it. There is a "20% off marked price" sale which lasts until tomorrow. Star Wars: There were a number of UCS (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) It depends a bit on what kind of Lego you are after. For example, I find Big W a waste of time as they rarely have the larger sets that I like. I find I have to go to TRU or Myer Queen Street for this kind of stuff, and since both of them tend (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Jeremy Dullard <jemgnu@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:G3q90s.3xx@lugnet.com... (...) form? (...) BRIKWARS! Hey Jeremy! We're neighbours! I'm in Brunswick too! You simply HAVE to try and get to the Melbourne SF club Lego building comp tonight (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Thanks, will look there as soon as I get a chance (btw, there doesn't seem to be much at any of the stores at Indooroopilly). Joe (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Try Big W, they just chug along at 10% below RRP. Myer have probably been stripped in the 20% sale. What was at K-marts down in Sydney was stripped in the double sale (Lego then a storewide). Still a bit of stuff at TRU's down here (even (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: It's All Over...
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(...) Occasionally????!!!!!????? 8?) ROSCO (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) What...You think we'll get it THAT early? I was thinking that it was something that TLG have listed as a low priority, due to the world [and their business] revolving around the US, and only branching out to suit the Sep..Yanks. [1] Obviously (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I've been lurking a little: but I got to MtGravatt too late to get a falcon. Then, in a frustrating afternoon, I discovered how crap the lego sections at: W4K Logan, Myers Logan, Toyworld Springwood, Myers Chermside (yeah, I drove from Logan (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Treacleheads (was Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database))
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(...) I didn't realize they'd heard of "Lego Lar" in Turkey. Wow, he gets around. ;^D ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin -- Mark's Lego Creations (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Treacleheads (was Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database))
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Dave Low wrote: Just for being clear, I already share your arguments that I snipped, and I already give some comments in my posts about it, but I have some objections here..:-) (...) Are you sure?..:-) All the non lego people around here (who (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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"Overview and Definitions lugnet.com (“LUGNET”) is a privately owned Internet site designed and run primarily for the benefit of those who enjoy building with, discussing, collecting, buying & selling, trading, and exchanging information about (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Re: Where are the Falcons
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(...) Do I detect some lurkers here ? Not the first time some shelves have been stripped after a post here in (.au). (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: TRU sale
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(...) This isn't Larry again is it ? Lar, the anti-Claus, robbing Australian kiddies Xmas stockings, minifigs forced to walk metres from the Lego train station to the Lego soccer ground. Seriously, the TRU bus stations are a bit bare, Gone are the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Meta-discussion: comfy with clones here in lugnet.loc.au?
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(...) While I don't care too much, I would prefer if the Followup from the first post would be to .clone-brands. Sometimes I have to read through the web page and it is difficult when the are is cluttered by MB posts. I've no intention of jumping on (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Where are the Falcons
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(...) WAS a Holden town. All the Falcons are gone from Mt Gravatt. Tim (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: TRU sale
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Remember how I had said i haven't had a dark age yet? Well perhaps a conversion to MB (given the poor performance of Lego of late) is a pesudo-dark age? Nahhh i like my trains. But I'll be quite happy if you told me that MB makes trains :) Santosh (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: TRU sale
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(...) Well, I was in TRU Chatswood yesterday, and I can tell you all about what MB they had, but to tell you a shattering truth that only just occurred to me [pause for ominous musical interlude] I never went to the Lego aisle. Ummm ahhhh. Maybe I (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Next Year
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(...) Nope, I love them BV cats... I'm allergic to the real ones, so at least I got'em in plastic. ;-) (...) Heeheeehee! ;-) (...) Ah-yep! They won't look at you *that* much weirder with a BV set than with a town one. ;-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | TRU sale
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Hiyas, Since my thesis is (almost) finished, and I need to buy about 60 soccer sets, I thought I'd hit the TRU's and grab some busses? So, can some Sydneysiders who have been to TRU in the past few days tell me which TRU's have the largest numbers (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: It's All Over...
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(...) Dave.L, don't tell them about the phonecard or travel rorts or the 'tripod' incident. Anyway with the TRU 25% off sale, the 3409's are AU$37.37, which is equivalent to US$19. I bought six to go with the two I already had. I am creating a huge (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Treacleheads (was Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database))
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(...) It's normal language behavior. People call Netscape Navigator "netscape". I even know people who (not so much now, but a few years ago) call Microsoft Word "microsoft". No one says "may I have a kleenex facial tissue". It's natural to treat (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Close Encounters
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(...) Brunswick, VIC. My LEGO re-birthing is based around wargaming: GO BRIKWARS! (...) Woah, slow down Prof. Low, I was just making pretty pictures with MY number-box, YOU seem to know what those OTHER buttons do! (...) Yeah, that's what I just (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Brunswick, Vic. I'm mostly approaching my LEGO re-birthing from a wargaming angle: GO BRIKWARS! (...) Umm, I was just making pretty pictures with MY number-box, you seem to have some knowledge of what the OTHER buttons do! (...) Yeah, that's (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I don't really think so, no. Because to have a total competition vacuum assumes that you're talking about a company that makes boxes full of elements and hands them to kids in a round grey room with absolutely nothing else to do. I guess a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Treacleheads
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(...) Huh? The argument is circular whether viewed from a cultural relativist standpoint or not. (...) I understand that you're working on very little sleep, but to proclaim someone's lexicon as "illiterate garble" just because it doesn't adhere to (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: It's All Over...
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(...) But you can't order them from S@H until 2004! 8^) Dave! (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: It's All Over...
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(...) You'd be surprised to know that since all our politicians are honest, respectable and genuine it's worth paying US$25 for <set:3409 a soccer field>. --DaveL (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Treacleheads
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(...) I am so _not_ going to get in a cultural relativism argument over grammar and aesthetics. I'm a liberal in principle and a conservative in practice (except for anything from the seventies). (...) Yeah, it's not really a disagreement. I know (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Treacleheads (was Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database))
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(...) Thank you Matthew. And because I've had two hours sleep in about forty I'll just point out that 1. fast and red are in fact adjectives, hence the first example, and 2. Coke is a trademark and a proper noun (like LEGO) hence the second example. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Treacleheads
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(...) Fair enough, but you must agree that because of that circular reasoning the argument won't convince anyone who doesn't already agree with it. (...) I understand and accept that, but many people identify LEGO as a singular noun in that usage, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Treacleheads (was Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database))
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(...) It's wrong, but not for that reason. It's wrong because it's an adjective, and adjectives don't really have plurals. But in popular usuage, it's a noun, and there's no reason for it to not have a regular plural. And people do say "I drank a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Treacleheads
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(...) (assuming it's an open question...) Could you ever have a total, _total_ competition vacuum? Because if there's a market, there's kids, and if there's kids there's no vacuum since they can always make up their own games. And if they couldn't (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Treacleheads
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(...) My take is that LEGO's trend toward Juniorization would continue with or without market competition, since we have evidence of its roots long before any serious competitor hit the market. LEGO can't blame (not that they do) their own reduced (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Treacleheads
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(...) Absolutely, which why it's In My Humble Opinion. (...) I would argue (and again, this is entirely the way it works in my fat head)that you, as a LEGO user, would be as wrong (or right) to identify a single brick as "a Lego" as you would be if (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Treacleheads
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(...) Are they the only thing keeping LEGO from complacency, or are they driving LEGO to juniorise the heck out of everything? If they didn't have to contend with competition, would they be dumbing down their sets, or would they be producing (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Treacleheads
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(...) Parts one and three of this argument only hold true if you decide in advance that they're true. If, as a LEGO user, I identify a single brick as "a Lego," why is it grammatically incorrect to refer to several bricks as "Legos?" Forget about (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Where are the Dark Sharks
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Peter White wrote in message ... (...) HA!!! I wish some LUGNET members thought like that a bit more often, instead of whinging incessantly about the aesthetic limitations of a commercial product that has had a global corporation's worth of effort (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Treacleheads (was Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database))
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(...) Warning: exactly the kind of post that should go to .o-t.vent follows. So I've o-t.d'ed, but since this <treacley juggernaut> of a thread is still in .au, I'm not holding back. And I should say that I'm more than a bit <treacley>'d off with a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Where are the Falcons
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(...) Aha ! So that's where they are. Maybe Brisbane is a Holden town. Kerry, you said you prefer Commodores. (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Hi, I'm looking for some castle knights! Trying to build a army! E-mail me if you have any also visit my site I made: (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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(...) Well, if there isn't support for a clones database that's fine. But I still think that the L stands for "legos" in the generic plastic brick meaning -- at least for most people that see it. Most are not purists, especially from the outside. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Warning: Australians (Re: Clones Database)
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(...) Maybe include a reference to a national fondness for robust discourse and colourful language, and a general suspicion of delicate sensibilities? I like it :-) Richard Still baldly going... And I do realise that I rather inflamed the situation (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Close Encounters
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(...) ROTFLMAO I stopped, crawled back up into my chair, hesitantly read it again out of the corner of my eye, and was ROTFLMAO all over again... This otherwise intractable issue is clearly settled, by an argument so pithy, so piquant, so poignant (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Close Encounters
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(...) ...and you've de-lurked with style!! Hi Jeremy! Where in the wide brown brick are you posting from? Want to have a go at the "fun facts about me" form? (...) In a frantic frenzy of futile factorisation I found: 20637 = 3.3.2293 73602 = (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Where are the Falcons
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(...) Again, in total constrast, TRU Mt Gravatt had no UCS Ties and no UCS X-Wings but some Millennium Falcons. Kerry (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Where are the Falcons
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As the TRU 25% off sale chugs along... No Millenium Falcons to be seen, the two at Parramatta are gone. Still heaps of UCS Ties and X-Wings at Chatswood, less at Parramatta. Given the same price tag, you think they would have got in more MF's, given (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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(...) Most definitely. I was referring to Todd's stated intent (from way back...) that he might at some point place the code that runs LUGNET or parts of it under GPL. (that's probably an incorrect paraphrase of what he said, though, I think it was (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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(...) But even then we come back to the fact that Todd is paying to run the server, and paying for the traffic. If he just plain doesn't want Lugnet to host scans of clone instructions or catalogues, then it won't. Of course, meanwhile, there are (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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hi all for those in Melbourne on Friday night (Nov 10th) the Melbourne Science Fiction Club is having a Lego Building Competition. Entry is open to all members and non-members. meeting starts at 8pm - building will probably start around 9pm. The (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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(...) No reasons?..:-) What do you think that this "L" of Lugnet stands for?..:-) Selçuk (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Re: 21 Australians
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(...) currently A-E) Well, fancy that. All these years I've watched Star Trek in its many variants and I've never even noticed. Live and learn, I guess. Kerry (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | I am now throwbots complete! (almost)
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I now have all 8 of the origonal throwbots thanks to my determined hunting and to martin scragg for comming up with the sub and ice I needed to complete the set. now all I need is the blaster spark and flare and I will be 100% throwbots complete (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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(...) Hear Hear. Very well put, Richard. I would hasten to add that the contribution of time, money, scans, information, etc. to Lugnet is subject to the Terms and Conditions, just like participation here. Merely contributing something doesn't give (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Meta-discussion: comfy with clones here in lugnet.loc.au?
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Given that there is lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands group, would people prefer it if those of us dabbling in the Dark Side kept our discussions out of lugnet.loc.au? Ditto for lugnet.org.au? NB. I'm asking out of a sense of Netiquette. I haven't had (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: The TRU 25% off Lego sale
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(...) Well, it started as an exercise, but then it was just too much effort to unload the trolley again :-) So, yes, I did buy the sets in question. In all seriousness, I was sufficiently pleased with the quality of the aircraft carrier to be (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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(...) It's not in the business plan. (...) It's also a matter of principle. (...) LUGNET would not be LUGNET. (...) --Todd (also baldly going :-) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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(...) Dan & Jenn Boger do, yes -- and have done incredibly huge great things in the past few months for the data in the DB. Selçuk Göre and Joshua Delahunty also have access and have done huge great things too. --Todd (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Re: The TRU 25% off Lego sale
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(...) Same at Chatswood TRU: dozens of people, many of them buying two or more sets. (...) Kerry, did you actually buy that much MB? I was hoping it was just an exercise... --DaveL (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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(...) Oh, certainly!! Neither Todd nor Richard are saying that. I think the inference is that everyone hanging out here is part of the community; but the sandbox itself? Yep, that's Todd and Suz's only. And ultimately, if they decide they don't want (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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(...) I have a real problem with Lugnet being considered Todd and Suzanne's exclusive sandbox -- in reality, it is and it isn't depending on what part we are examining. People contribute time, money, content, scans, etc. It strikes me as a community (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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Hey, I think Todd was being overly polite there (see: Are we being to nice?). What he <b>could</b> have said is: "**** off, this is LUGNET. This is our site. We will host what we want to host. You want register MegaBlocksUG or TycoUG .com? Go ahead, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database)
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(...) Before Todd wears yet another hammering, a quick note in support, feel free to hunt me instead. Contrary to the culture of entitlement popular in the US (you know, I'm owed stuff just 'cause I'm here, ne'er-do-wells protesting 'I have rights' (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Re: Clones Database (was Re: MB sightings)
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(...) It costs money to run a server. You wanna throw your own money at hosting content related to imitation brands, go right ahead. There are plenty of hosting services. (...) I agree. (...) I'm not against helping people find information about (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.db.scans)
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