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Re: 2x2x7 White Lamp Posts 4-Sale
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Tue, 9 Oct 2001 14:40:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Adam Wood writes:>
"Maggie Cambron" wrote in message

[TLC] won't risk it because there is some speculation that sets using a
primarily black and/or black/red color scheme may bring out latent
tendencies toward violence that children, especially boys, may harbor.

Is this serious? I _really_ hope this is just speculation, and hopefully
you're joking. I'm not seeing any :) though, but I hope it's just that I've
been at work too long and have temporarily lost my humour button.

  They're likewise discontinuing white bricks due to fears of racism; yellow
will be stopped for its associations with cowardice; green must of course be
eliminated immediately, lest it be used on a Thursday (with attendant
implications of lasciviousness); blue will be stopped because it connotes
depression.

     Dave!



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  Re: 2x2x7 White Lamp Posts 4-Sale
 
(...) Well at least we still have Gray! Although they may cancel it because it tends to connote "average" or "unexciting" which of course is a bad message, we want all our kids to be "above average". (DARK-grey of course, is right out since it has (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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"Maggie Cambron" <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:GKw0In.3t5@lugnet.com... (...) also (...) tendencies (...) Is this serious? I _really_ hope this is just speculation, and hopefully you're joking. I'm not seeing any :) though, but I (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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