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Re: Talking Points
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Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:25:37 GMT
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Russell Clark <RCLARK@TELISstopspammers.ORG>
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> From: "David K. Z. Harris" <zonker@gnac.com>
> Subject: Talking Points
> Date: Mon, Aug 7, 2000, 4:39 PM
> 
> 
>  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/
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