 | | Interesting Article —David Drew
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| | | Hi, Here's an article posted in the UK's Telegraph, where a Nobel-prize winning chemist blames the rise in popularity of Lego over Meccano for the decrease of the UK's scientists and Engineers. The man's obviously never played with Technic. :) (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | Re: Interesting Article —Richie Dulin
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| | | | | (...) ROTFL Of course, he's probably achieving more fame by making such a statement, than by winning a Nobel Prize to begin with! Cheers Richie Dulin Patrician of Brick-Morpork (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | | | Re: Interesting Article —Pete White
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| | | | | | (...) Note the note, "USAians note: Meccano = Erector Set" pete.w (putting the f back in family forum, firmly) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | Re: Interesting Article —Richie Dulin
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| | | | (...) [snip] And this big news has finally filtered through to the Australian media - the story appearing in yesterday's SMH: (URL) Dulin Patrician of Brick-Morpork (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | | Re: Interesting Article —Sue Ann Barber
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| | | | It also appeared in Monday's Melbourne Age in the Today section. They did mention the reaction to the original article by someone from Lego Uk. cheers SAB (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | | Re: Interesting Article —Richie Dulin
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| | | | (...) And appeared in the Sun-Herald yesterday (22/7). You'd almost think that it was an important story... except that they're just reprinting it over and over again. Cheers Richie Dulin Patrician of Brick Morpork (23 years ago, 22-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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