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Re: Cosmic Toys now open on BrickBay
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 3 Oct 2000 21:58:49 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Mark Sandlin writes:
> Adam Hoekwater at ahoekwat@nd.edu wrote:
>
> > cos·mic - adj.
> >
> > 1.) Of or relating to the universe, especially as distinct from Earth.
> > 2.) Infinitely or inconceivably extended; vast: “a coming together of heads
> > of government to take up the cosmic business of nations” (Meg Greenfield).
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > [Greek kosmikos, from kosmos, universe.]
> >
> >
> > It's called "Cosmic Toys", not "Get your LEGO Classic Space sets here". :^)
> > My store was called LegoMonkey, and nobody ever complained about my utter
> > lack of a certain brown plastic simian. 8^D
> >
> > -A
>
> You can use dictionary.com! You get a gold star!
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> I was making kind of a small joke here and, as tends to happen in
> newsgroups, things are getting a little out of hand.
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> It was a JOKE, people! Hence the " :^D "
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> e·mo·ti·con (-mt-kn)
> n.
>
> A series of keyed characters used especially in e-mail to indicate an
> emotion, such as pleasure [ :-) ] or sadness [ :-( ].
>
> ~M
>
> P.S. You don't have any monkey minifigs on your LegoMonkey brickbay site.
Wow. I won't need anyone to be condescending to me for the rest of the month.
My post had 2 smileys, do they cancel eachother out? Just wanted to say
that 'cosmic' may not mean 'space'. You've helped me to see that I could have
done a better job of conveying it. I apologize.
-Adam
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