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Re: What's in a part name? (WAS: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus)
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Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:47:21 GMT
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In lugnet.parts, Steve Bliss wrote:
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In lugnet.parts, Allan Bedford wrote:
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I think slope bricks are actually well-named and are one of the major
categories of elements that everyone can seem to more-or-less agree upon.
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I wasn’t seriously suggesting we try to rename slopes. But bevel would be so
much more ... taxonimetrical.
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You don’t think it’s a good idea to rename slopes? ;)
But I agree with you, it’s not a bad alternate name for them. In the
Brickopedia I tried to find a balance between taxonomically correct labels and
groupings/names that made sense from a LEGO builder’s perspective.
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My favorite part name is ‘bearclaw’.
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Hmmmmmm...... I don’t know that one. But I’ll take a guess. Is it this:
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Ooo. Good guess.
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Then maybe the one shown above could be a ‘crab claw’ or something like that.
:)
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But it was actually this part:
 Part 4275
Maybe 4085 could be “dog paw” or something...
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Ah yes. I can see where a name like that would arise.
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I heard about this name years ago, when a person whose name I do not recall
ran a “Name that Brick” monthly contest. I always liked the fanciful names
better than the descripitive names...
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I don’t remember that contest. Was it on LUGNET or rtl?
I started a thread here a couple of years ago to try and see if other people had
nicknames for some of their favorite parts. It wasn’t a huge discussion, but
here’s the link:
http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=41997
My two personal favorites are noted there. The first is this one:
I still like to call it a bulldog brick, though it would be more accurate to
call it a ‘bullnose’ brick, since that’s exactly the type of real brick that it
resembles.
The other is this one:
That I still like to call the ‘hydrant’ since it reminds me a fire hydrant.
Yes, I know most fire hydrants aren’t square, but oh well.
Of course, many fire hydrants only have two outlets, so perhaps this part is
better deserving of the label:
Unless, of course, they come out with a part like this:
Then I’d change my mind entirely and start calling that one a hydrant. :)
Allan B.
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