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Re: Dear LEGO: Pirate wish list
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lugnet.pirates
Date: 
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:21:09 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes:

> Bugger the Armada, they're really only there for target practice aren't
> they? (hee hee)
> 
> More of the British navy!

Something for the Pirates to spank.  Armada, Limeys, makes no difference.

> 
> Why only 16 studs wide eh?  What the world needs is ships. GREAT, BIG,
> SHIPS.  How about _24_ studs wide, three midsections.  Buy two of those
> babies and we're talking HMS Victory!  The bow section would need to rise up
> higher than the existing ones (maybe another four or five bricks).  And
> brown - the hulls were brown and black!  I know this idea in particular is
> ridiculous - we can barely afford the 16 stud hulls.  But the post said get
> out your brains, so I did, and as I look at my brains sitting over there on
> the shelf, I'm starting to wonder how getting them out was supposed to help.
> 
> And I agree with the other post about cutters too - we all need more
> lighters etc etc.
> 
> And some buildings - taverns (yup, cool), warehouses (yup, cool), banks
> (ornate two story stone variety, not the shop front rubbish), churches,
> barracks, prisons (very important for Australia!).
> 
> And a long boat - a boat that's five studs wide so your boat crew can sit
> two abreast, maybe 16 studs long, and with decent length oars for two handed
> rowing.
> 
> And better natives.  Get some appropriately scary Maoris or Aborigines or
> Tongans to give the whiteys (yellowies?) something to think about.

I rather think it's more of the europeans scaring the rest of the world.  :-)


> 
> And and and and and and and and - that's probably enough eh?
> 
> Richard
> Still baldly going...
> Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/



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  Re: Dear LEGO: Pirate wish list
 
Steve Campbell wrote in message <38303501.3365415E@l...sa.gov>... (...) A pirate wish list! Woo Hooo! That's a courageous question to be posing the likes of me! Bugger the Armada, they're really only there for target practice aren't they? (hee hee) (...) (27 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)

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