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| (...) Well, some hollow minifig heads have an *image* of a brain, but they're otherwise quite transparent.... Maggie C. (who still has Dali-esque nightmares of melting LEGO after seeing the pictures of... of the *experiments*)    (23 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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| (...) Yup - absolutely correct. But Minifigs get much weaker brains after a bath in acetone than in wine. Anyway: this one obviously never had any brain to become weak, since he has been a professional soccer player. I never heared anything about (...)   (23 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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| (...) volunteer... right? (perhaps after a visit to the wine car???)    (23 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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| (...) Thanks Larry, for giving this exhaustive description of my lived hobby. I think you caught nearly all facets of me being an hardcore AFOL. (...) They have been named beer waggons by some of the other AFOLs around. I always counted them as wine (...)   (23 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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| (...) Ups... I have to say a 'Sorry, ++Lar!' at this point. Obviously I remembered this wrong. I am quite sure I read about your plusses as a kind of sign for you being an expert. But in fact that might have been someone else joking? (...) 'Lar' (...)   (23 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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| (...) Oh, and on my list of reasons, I omitted - egregiously fabricating past history - spreading falsehoods about people's signatures because no such thing ever happened. The "++Lar" started because Todd used to sign his posts "--Todd" and I (...)   (23 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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| I almost shudder to mention this, since the underlying debate is serious and highly charged, but a CNN article about race and affirmative action included a really inopportune misprint, in grand Amos-n-Andy style: "At issue is whether race be used as (...)   (23 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: pics of every new 2003 set righ here 
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| (...) If you are trying to say that Ken is trying to say that the basketball minifigs aren't a good product, please tell him to say so. I, for one, have once had an accident which caused me to end up using crutches and really* do not appreciate your (...)   (23 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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|  |  | Re: How to get free shipping from S@H without spending $99 
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| (...) That's okay, I *did* buy LEGO when those were still on the shelves, yet I passed them up! :-( (URL) only have a couple of the containers because of garage sales. They also had two baseplate lid containers, and both two and three green (...)   (23 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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| (...) That's why the smiley. --BIll.    (23 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun) 
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