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The message is pretty clear, I think: Dad better get a decent LEGO set for Christmas, or he'll be drinking by 10:00 AM, just to mask the bitterness and jealously. 8) Rob (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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This dropped out of the papers this weekend... Is is a little flyer, which takes the form of a photograph, and it appears to confirm that TLG (TLC?) is now actively marketing their products at the adult market: The front: (URL) back: (URL) if this (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Richard (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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So TLG is promoting Drinking and Building in the UK? Cool. (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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That's pretty cool. I wonder if I should start an ads section (it's really not a catalog). KL (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Look at the instructions for the Whirling Time Warper, once its constructed the first thing you see is the little mini guy driving and holding an empty clear goblet... ...could it be the source of the Warper's true whirling power? :: Hic!:: -- (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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I think it would be interesting if you did. Collecting advertisements is a hobby in its own right. I heard about a guy who made a living buying pre-war magazines, and then sell on the ads individually. Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:09:59 GMT, Kevin Loch uttered the following profundities... (...) In that new section,you could include scans of job adverts from Lego, perhaps, too! ( I have somewhere a scan of a recent marketing advert) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) LOL... that's a classic! J (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) You pegged it Rob! Thanks for the best laugh I have had in about a month. As a Dad this is painfully true, too bad we won't have the wine out in my house that early in the morning. Cheers, Mark L (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well this is a postcard, there have been many postcards over the last year or so - maybe they deserve their own folder. Carbon 60 (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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Who is the other glass of wine for? Mum or the kid? Scott A (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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Some of the earliest LEGO pictures showing adults building LEGO was from LEGO Building Idea Book #1 (the first LEGO idea book issued 1960-67). Check out the last few pictures in this website (it'll take a while to load the pictures): (URL) the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Why is it that the *kid* has the bottle? Subtle counter-message to the advertisement? Why don't they just airbrush shadows of skulls into the LEGO bricks? Steve (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Or they forgot an important detail when setting up this gift-opening scene: When are gifts opened? In the US, it's Christmas (25.) morning, while in Germany, it's typically Christmas Eve (i.e. late afternoon to very late evening of the 24.). (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) It depends on how old you are, when I was a kid it was about 5am. That way I could eat all my xmas sweets, and still have an appatite for lunch! Scott A (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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It depends on families too - my family opens all the "personal presents" on Xmas Eve, and all the "Santa presents" Xmas Day. My wife's family opens them all on Xmas Day. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) In Norway, we always open the presents after the Christmas dinner on the 24th of December, typically around 18-20. (That's 6-8pm.) We normally have to wait until the dishes are done, too, but I have a feeling that this is done to have the kids (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) In the United States, it seems that most people wait until Christmas morning. I know I always did. It was a matter of forcing yourself to go to sleep at night and trying not to wake up too early, because you knew that your parents wouldn't get (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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We used to have a 4 stage Christmas. Stage one was Christmas Eve at my aunts with my mother's side of the family. After it reached the point that there were more than about 5 or 6 kids in my generation, we stopped giving everyone presents, and all (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In my "extended family" we opened gifts at different times: On Christmas Eve, the family had a big get-together and exchanged gifts "family-to-family, person-to-person." As much of the family as possible was together for Christmas Eve, this included (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Your extended family Christmases sound very much like mine, as far as who gives presents to whom, and who gets together, and all. When I was a kid, my dad's side of the family (from my grandparents on down) would get together on the Sunday (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) market. Which one of your "boys" indeed! What about me? Does that mean Santa's not bringing me the 8448? Waaaaah! (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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[ I suspect this answer is a few months late, but ... ] Fredrik: (...) In Denmark the general habit (among the ~99% of the population that are protestants) is to open the presents after dinner Christmas eve. I have never encountered a Danish family (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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