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Re: [rtlToronto] December Dinner
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Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:19:44 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote:
> 
> > What kind of Sick-o would pass up a once a month dinner with us cool lego guys to hang out
> > with some dame.
> > 
> > all for what??  in the hopes of getting ?????
> > 
> > I don't get it.
> 
> This is precicely what scares me away from enthusiast groups.  :)
> 
> A few weekends ago, my friend Roman and I were looking for something fun to do
> on a Saturday evening.  So we went to a hobby shop, intending to buy supplies to
> build a scale model of one of the rides we invented.
> 
> So anyway, we saw a model kit for a Mercedes A-Class (this awesome little
> futursitic hatchback only in Europe), and thought we'd have a go at that.
> Neither of us having ever built a model before.  So we were trying to figure out
> what else we had to buy, and one of the "elders" in the store started to help us
> out at the front counter.
> 
> Pretty soon, a crowd of scary men had gathered around us, watching us "learn"
> about what glues we'd need and why it was proper to use the knife at a 32.5
> degree angle to cut pieces off the runner.  It was very scary and startlingly
> ritualistic.  I swear the lights dimmed and someone started chanting.  "HO.  HO.
> HO."  Then someone said "N", and he got a swift kick in the nuts.  Then some guy
> goes "Yeah, and pretty soon you'll forget all about girls!"
> 
> We got the hell out of there.  And if you're wondering, the model turned out OK.
> 
>     Iain
> 
> PS - still crying from laughing so hard at lowbrow.

You guys are to much. I know I can almost always get a good laugh when I read
your posts. The way you rib each other reminds me of Abbot and Costello. God,
I'm old.

Steven Weiser



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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steven D. Weiser wrote: <snip> (...) We try. And I'm old as well... Keystone Cops old, Buster Keaton old... ;) Dave K (23 years ago, 14-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) This is precicely what scares me away from enthusiast groups. :) A few weekends ago, my friend Roman and I were looking for something fun to do on a Saturday evening. So we went to a hobby shop, intending to buy supplies to build a scale model (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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