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(...) I'd chime in here about the need for a newsgroup about my "favourite parts" but this is a family forum. *smirk* -Cheese (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) focused (...) And, there's an urgent need for lugnet.build.hugepooppiece, where we can discuss our favorite parts.:-) Alan (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, clearly, we need a lugnet.build.slope!!! They're important too, you know. (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Legoholic
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(...) John, you convinced me! I'll be sending all my lego collection over to you tomorrow! Expect it any time next Millenium... ;-) (...) Now seriously, Scott - If you feel your lego-addiction is a problem, it will be a problem. If your friends (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
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(...) After I was bored out of my mind and read my state's Public Utilities Commission rules for telephone solicitors (they're probably in the front part of your phone book), I would answer calls I knew to be telephone solicitors, just to let them (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) As well you should. Scott, you have a terrible problem to which there is only one solution-- rid yourself of the offending bricks. Being one who is here to help you (that's all I do), I would be willing to take all of your bricks off your (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hi, Scott! (...) Scott, I have two cats, no life, and a Steaming Heap of LEGO. I work like a dog, then come home to my LEGO and cats. I rarely go a day without buying more LEGO (there is *no* such thing as "too much LEGO"). But as the man (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
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(...) My stock phrase uses a few more big words to thwart generally illiterate solicitors: "I apologize, but this household's policy prevents patronization of telephone solicitation." Usually, they give up in a rather dazed and confused manner. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Hello, my name is Scott and I am a Legoholic. Since my obsession with Lego begun I lost friends, all my money, and I almost lost my family. Really though, is there any kind of clinic for people with this disorder, Forget Alcoholics Anonymous or (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes (...) I kind of spaced on the busted finger thing. I remember Zap ("bazooka expert" or something), my first GI Joe, hade some serious finger problems. Not only was the hand's plastic (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hm, I got into GI Joe just as they introduced the Swivel-Arm Battle Grip™. I loved the things--after a couple of years where fingers broke off, they changed plastic formulation for the forearms and solved that problem. I finally liquidated my (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
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(...) Heh heh heh... I used to mess with my high school's tardiness information system by calling it up and whistling 2400 to it... it would try to answer, but they'd set the timeout to 'null' due to the vagaries of having to connect remotely via (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I think this is the localised version of the "Behold the power of cheese" spots we're seeing on the west coast. -Cheese (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: What are you going to do with all those half price 8448's?
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(...) {drum roll} {cue lights} Redmond Washington, Dateline, 7 February 2000: [PR Newswire] Microsoft annouces their latest product, BlameIt2000. For all those times when you, in your home or office, need to generate blame, Microsoft has the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
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Used to do 2400 all the time... poor man's null modem... pick up the phone and whistle a answer carrier while the two computers listen for a carrier... :) Dave (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey, GI Joe was great! Sure, when I got my first one, I had him pegged as a weak-minded pawn of the military-industrial complex[1] (probably because of the booklet showing how to pose him in various boot-camp situations; calisthenics, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Once in a great while, unfortunately. Unlike Boston, I am back in Boston M through W next week, although busy. (...) Cool, I'll try to see if I can bring one with me next time I come. (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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How often are you in DC Larry? WAMALUG would love to have a VIP at one of our frequent meetings. -Chris (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Star Wars a loss for Lego?
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(...) ah, I know... replying to myself. (URL) is about the one I saw, though. -S (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Mistaken ID (was Re: I appologise for the way I handled the 9v trains idea book idea.
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(...) A splinter sect off Larritarianism? Nealist? <grin, duck> James (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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