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Re: Everybody's Free (to play with Lego)
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Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:42:08 GMT
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Someone should read that to the "sunscreen" melody and make a MP3 of it!
I love the text!
--Tobias
> Well, the local radio has just had another rash of the Sunscreen Song go
> through, and I just couldn't help but parody it with a Lego slant... Here • it
> is, for your (questionable) enjoyment:
>
> Ladies and gentlemen of all varieties of class,
>
> Play with Lego.
>
> If I could offer you only one tip for the future, Lego would be it. The • long-
> term benefits of Lego have been proven by children, whereas the rest of my
> advice has no basis more reliable than my own building experience. I will
> dispense this advice now.
>
> Enjoy the power and beauty of your theme. Oh, never mind. You will not
> understand the power and beauty of your theme until it’s been juniorized. • But
> trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at catalogues of your theme and • recall
> in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay within it and how fun • it
> really was. There are not as many Timmy's as you imagine.
>
> Don’t worry about bulk ordering. Or worry, but know that worrying is as
> effective as trying to convince eBay that their business practises are
> flawed. The real problems in your hobby are apt to be things that never
> crossed your worried mind, the kind that stab you in the foot at 4 a.m. on
> some idle Tuesday.
>
> Visit one Lego site every day that inspires you.
>
> Build.
>
> Don’t be careless with other people’s bricks. Don’t put up with people who
> are reckless with yours.
>
> Sort.
>
> Don’t waste your time on clones. Sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re
> bad. The industry is large, and in the end, there’s only one Lego.
>
> Remember encouragement you receive. Forget the scor of people who don’t
> understand your hobby. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
>
> Keep your old MOC’s. Scan your old instructions and load them to • Brickshelf.
>
> Play.
>
> Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know how to use Ldraw. Some of the best
> builders I know didn’t know how to use Ldraw when they started. One of the
> best builders I know still uses Coreldraw.
>
> Buy plenty of brick buckets. Be kind to your macaroni bricks. You’ll miss
> them when they’re gone.
>
> Maybe you’ll have a NLSO, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, • maybe
> you won’t. Maybe you’ll sell your collection, maybe you’ll build an • addition
> onto your house. Whatever you do, don’t spend too much time building, but
> don’t stop entirely, either. Your creations are half finished. So are
> everybody else’s.
>
> Enjoy your Lego. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or of • what
> other people think of it. It’s the greatest toy you’ll ever own.
>
> Collect, even if you have nowhere to shop but overpriced TRU’s.
>
> Read the instructions, even if you don’t follow them.
>
> Do not go to Legoland, it will only make you feel frustrated.
>
> Get to know your parents. You’ll never know when they’ll dig up your
> childhood Lego from the basement. Be nice to your siblings. They’re your
> best link to your past, and the people most likely to just give you their • old
> collections.
>
> Understand that websites come and go, but with a precious few you should
> bookmark the pages. Work hard to credit the ideas you use, because the • more
> you build, the more you use the cool stuff you see others doing.
>
> Visit Legoland once, but leave before it makes you bitter. Visit toy • stores
> often, but leave before they make you broke.
>
> Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise, newbies will blather,
> you too will get exasperated. And when you do, you will fantasize that • prices
> were reasonable, RTL was civil, and newbies respected experienced builders.
>
> Respect experienced builders.
>
> Don’t expect anyone else to support you in .debate. Maybe you have a good
> idea. Maybe your point is valid. But you never know when you’re just
> rehashing old news.
>
> Don’t spend too much time in your replies, or by the time you’re done, 40
> other people have answered the question.
>
> Be careful whose Lego you buy, but be grateful to those who supply it. On-
> line auctions are a form of bulk sales. Selling parts on-line is a way of
> fishing the discount sets from the sale bins, parting them out, and selling
> them for more than they are worth.
>
> But trust me on the Lego.
>
>
>
> James
> http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
> (I suppose, for the sake of form: This paraody is a Just This Side of
> Arrogance Production, copyright me, yadda yadda yadda.)
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