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Hiya all..... I just got an email back from Steven... head of Lego Australia.... I've been emailing him asking him questions..... so here's some answers.... 1. Most likely LEGO Direct will be world wide by the end of this year. 2. Those Modellers (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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My two cents: "Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message news:GBBBA0.1ty@lugnet.com... (...) construction [...] (...) It highlights the main problem - it sounds like a business name, like we're selling the blocks or something. Which we're (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Thanks Kev! (...) I wonder whether that changes July for us in particular? (...) Back to the drawing board.. LugOz? Deidre drb@tasmail.com (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) OzStudz ????!!!!!???? 8?) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) BlockHeads? (graphic of minifig with 1x2 brick for head) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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AusLug (we'll still be slugs that way) Santosh (one week to go!) (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Sounds definitely like a delay to me. Announce positive (worldwide) with implied negative (Australia is part of world). (...) Until they find a job that pays. (...) The uni students must assemble the models blindfolded. The people working at (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Which is why I asked if Kev would check on the LegOz name specifically :) Any more (preferably serious) name suggestions out there? So far we've got AusLug LugOz OzStudz Blockheads (I make no judgements on the last two, I'm just being complete (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Some considerations, snaffled from (URL) OzStudz isn't an acronym, its just funny in a non-PC non-genderspecific in-joke kind of way. 2.Modular bricks have studs and we aren't studs -- that's why it's funny. Non-members, including prospective (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well what ever we all decide on.. I'll still be happy to do the logo art...: ) Here's one..... OZBLOCKS....???? he he he Kev...: ) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I tend to disagree - I think the proportion of "techie" people on Lugnet isn't that high either - unless you include the "trainie"s. (...) It wasn't a serious suggestion - hence the smiley 8?) (...) the (...) I kinda like BlockHead. But (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) We can even make that one into an Acronym, just to annoy the people who don't like acronyms :) OZBLOCKS= Oz Builders (of/with/using/whatever) Lego and Other construction Kit Sets or even just Oz Builders (of/with etc) Lego and Other (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) But it sounds too much like ICEblocks... people will think we're a paddlepop fan club or something... (j/k!!) Is this a good compromise, reached in just over a dozen posts? Surely not... (...) I do like acronyms sometimes! (...) This is even (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hmmm. Might annoy ozbricks.com a bit though..... ROSCO (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Absolutely! (...) But wouldn't the world be a better place if they did? (...) But that would be AutLUG, wouldn't it? ;) My preference, for what it's worth, would be for AusLUG, over OzLUG (I still have problems with Oz as a substitute for (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I think I agree. But if we call it OzLUG, can I be the tin-man????? 8?) ROSCO (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) BrickBats (for those of us who are batty about bricks?) ThickAsBricks Kerry (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) still (...) age!) It's not age! I'm grandma here (since nobody *admits* to being older) and Oz is fine with me. I use it all the time. It's more fun than Aus. Also, Oz has whimsy/fantasy associations that I find quite appropriate for our (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I'll be the Wicked Witch of the West. Kerry (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) ThinkBrick ??? ROSCO (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin writes (about a theoretical Austrian LUG): (...) Or, if they named it themselves, OstLUG (or is it ÖstLUG?) Cheers again Richie Dulin (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Do you grill them whole or delimbed? (...) These are excellent points. I'm almost convinced that it would be okay to use the same acronym that everyone else does to describe the group!! And it's the most obvious choice (at least to Lugnetters, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) If it's Oz, shouldn't that be "chuck another *winged* monkey on the barbie"? :) Cheers Richie (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) <snip> (...) Issac Newtown dabbled in the Black arts, he was at one point just a glofieied Alchemist trying to make gold. But it was this dabbling that eventually lead to him coming up with the very *pure* scientific proofs on gravity and (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Whole, eating the drumsticks is so much fun. Of course, being such feminine little maids, my piratesses will probably have a chestnut stuffing and serve the roast monkey in a raspberry coulis accompanied by a salad of wilted mixed leaves. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hey! what about 'Wizards of OZ'? :P Mel (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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