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Excuse me, but what are 'BURPS'?
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:02:25 GMT
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Hi there,
Can someone please tell me what 'BURPS' are?
I see this term used a lot on Lugnet and don't have the foggiest what it
means!
Sorry if this is not the newsgroup to post to, but I figure I'll get a quick
answer judging by the traffic I've seen here lately.
Thanks guys.
Kieran Brady
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Excuse me, but what are 'BURPS'?
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| (...) Big Ugly Rock Pieces... as in those grey and dark grey blocks which have a rocky shape, are about 3x8x6 or bigger, used in the western sets mainly. (...) Yeah, took me a while as well. Likewise with AFOL, CRAPP, even LUGNet itself! (...) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | BURP trivia (was Re: Excuse me, but what are 'BURPS'?)
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| (...) BURPs = Big Ugly Rock Pieces "BURP" is the most amazingly successful acronym coinage I've seen come from rec.toys.lego. Trivia question - who first coined the term BURPs for the Big Ugly Rock Piece elements? Answer: r.t.l user Mark Hornblower, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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