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In message <FMw5p4.xL@lugnet.com>, "Eric Kingsley" writes: Our (...) I'm thinking, "Yow! That's an awful lot of boxes! What did they bring them in, a truck?" (...) Oh, _model_ _year_ 2000. Not two thousand sets. Now I get it. (...) Quite right--as a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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(...) I won't speak to the first issue, but we had some discussion about the second. Part of the problem is that it'd suck to have parent chaperones sitting around in the back of the meeting feeling bored. And really, it's not conducive to the kind (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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(...) Yes. That's why I used the word "member," not "chaperone." As you point out, I really brought up two separate problems that limit the participation of some people in NELUG: the first because they _have_ children, the second because they _are_ (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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(...) I know. But, calling them members doesn't make any difference if they're just doing it to make their kids happy. Also, this isn't fair to kids whose parents really don't enjoy Lego. (Such people exist!) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: NELUG meeting report from 12/16/1999
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(...) I would truly hope that someone hosting a meeting would be allowed to have their children present so long as they behave (which should be standard hosting protocol for ANY social event at a home - it's up to the parents if they want to allow (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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