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Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!)
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lugnet.market.jambalaya
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Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:02:41 GMT
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Kyle Keppler wrote:
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> In lugnet.market.jambalaya, Frank Filz writes:
> > What I forgot to mention last night was that a couple things
> > dissapointed me about the box:
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> > 1. Somewhere in the past few folks it went through a smokers house, and
> > will have a new box when I send it along (hmm, Shiri, will this be a
> > problem for you? I can possibly switch out all the bags and give the
> > parts a bath, though it will be tight to do so before Friday).
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> Hmm, I didn't notice this but I do remember it being rather dusty. And FYI
> no one at my house smokes. Alot of the bags were in poor shape so I was
> going to replace them, but then we were out of baggies.
I'm pretty sensitive to smoke, so perhaps you just didn't notice it, in
any case, the existing box is now in our recycle bin, I'll use a new
one. I did also notice a "greasy" residue on my hands after handling the
parts which is characteristic of smoke exposed LEGO. Lots of stuff is
pretty grungy also.
> > 2. I'm not sure if they started in the box, or have been added as it
> > went along but there are a bunch of minifigs and parts in pretty sad
> > shape. I'll probably do some swapping out of those, starting to collect
> > for Junk Box #4 (I have a funny feeling Junk Box #3 has died also).
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> Yea I was dissapointed about all the parts in poor shape too, but I figured
> someone may want them and I sure didn't so I just left them in.
I save up junky parts to form Jambalaya Junk Boxes with, so I can take
the worst of the parts out and put something better in.
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| (...) Hmm, I didn't notice this but I do remember it being rather dusty. And FYI no one at my house smokes. Alot of the bags were in poor shape so I was going to replace them, but then we were out of baggies. (...) Yea I was dissapointed about all (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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