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Dim Wit (was Re: Weird box from S@H)
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 02:33:18 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron writes:
> Paul Davidson wrote:
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> > I just got my latest order from Lego Shop@Home.
> >
> > It came in a different box than usual. This one is nondescript except for
> > large block letters on it saying "DIMWT 2". What's strange, though, is that
> > someone has taken a black felt pen and stuck an "I" between the W and T, so
> > it says "DIMWIT". Then they've scrawled a message beside it (on the top of
> > my package!): "You ordered a dimwit? Or is it fo (sic) a dimwit? Ho Ho"
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> > How many other people have gotten packages in the mail with something like
> > that written on the box? I have no idea if some at Lego or at the post
> > office wrote it. :)
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> I've gotten several of the DIM WT packages, none defaced. In fact around our
> house that's what we call them-- when my husband says, "Oh, BTW you got a DIM
> WIT package today," I'm glad because I know I got an S@H order.
I am betting that a lot of S@H customers refer to the boxes as DIM WIT. I know
I do. I like the Dim Wit 9 the best as those definitely hold more than a Dim
Wit 2. In fact, I probably have about 30 Dim Wit boxes around the house with
stuff in them, mostly empty Lego set boxes.
see you later, Dim Wit
__Kevin Salm__
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| (...) Now to spoil everyone's fun, here's a good reference as to what DIM WT is (complete with a form to calculate it)... (URL) used for air shipping to get a handle on the volume of a package, since airplanes don't have infinite space. This took a (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Weird box from S@H
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| (...) I've gotten several of the DIM WT packages, none defaced. In fact around our house that's what we call them-- when my husband says, "Oh, BTW you got a DIM WIT package today," I'm glad because I know I got an S@H order. I doubt it was a LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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