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Subject:	Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:35:53 GMT
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Sproaticus wrote: > > Barry McFarland wrote: > > I would have to say the front slope from Blaze Commander #6525. I can't even > > decide where to sort this piece, with the low slopes?? or with wheel well > > pieces?? If you can't sort it, then you can't find it, or use it. Hence, > > useless. > > Good point. Barbara and I sort everything by color, which I JUST don't understand. I have some color sorted stuff now and it is SO hard to find things > which for the size > of our collection, is starting to become inconvenient. Our black pieces > fill a storage drawer which measures 11 x 6 x 16 inches (about 4.5 > gallons or 17.4 litres) -- making it nigh impossible to find *any* tiny > black piece. ...But I don't think I'll be selling off my black any time > soon. :-, Well, just in case, I bet Damraska will want it all. (just trying to help) -- Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please. - Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please. - Stick to the facts when posting about others, please. - This is a family newsgroup, thanks.

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		Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
(...) Well, a year ago our entire collection would fit within six 8.5 x 11 x 2 inch drawers. They were so shallow, finding a specific piece was cake. (...) Well, I suppose I would entertain offers. For roughly 18,000 pieces, I'll accept $250,000 or (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
(...) Yeah I agree. The human mind is really good at sorting by color: if you're trying to find one 2x2 red piece mixed in with 1000 white ones, piece of cake. But try to find one 2x3 mixed in with 1000 2x2s and 2x4s of the same color... (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
(...) Good point. Barbara and I sort everything by color, which for the size of our collection, is starting to become inconvenient. Our black pieces fill a storage drawer which measures 11 x 6 x 16 inches (about 4.5 gallons or 17.4 litres) -- making (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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