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Re: Talking Points
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lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf
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Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:25:37 GMT
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Russell Clark <rclark@STOPSPAMMERStelis.org>
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> From: "David K. Z. Harris" <zonker@gnac.com>
> Subject: Talking Points
> Date: Mon, Aug 7, 2000, 4:39 PM
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> There has got to be some more whimsey in this hobby. (We were interviewed
> by the editor of the Aw Nuts! newsletter (Always whimsical, not usualy
> to scale), and he took some pictures. If it turns into an article, we'll
> post a note for folks.)
Very cool.
> Some scale modelers take their hobby too seriously. (Remember that some
> of us are modeling in 7- and 8-wide formats, and I've even seen some
> pictures of 4-wide cars using HO-scale trucks...but those guys at
> LEGOLAND are *too* serious about detail! ;-)
And we don't take LEGO trains too seriously? :)
> It's so colorful. (Unusual colors? Look at the Daylight! :-)
But how many trains use purple and magenta?
> Fred Yokel points out "LEGO Trains don't break, they just come
> apart, and then you can put them back together"...this is a key
> way to word it, so that folks don't hear "break".
Very true. Just look at the mess if an old Lionel train falls a few feet to
the floor.
Russell Clark, BayLUG/BayLTC
http://baylug.org/russellc/
http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/?m=130
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