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Baseplates came up in another thread and it reminded me of a recent (small) discovery. Here in Oz, baseplates (32x32) are normally shelved in a yellow plastic multi tray unit. Its got four or five horizontal shelves (kind of like stacked in trays) (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: CLSOTW - Thanks
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(...) I think everyone here knows this, in much the same way that April 30 does not equal May 1. However, there's no point in complaining about it, because even if it's not "so," no one really seems to care. Besides which, it's not going to matter, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Nitpick- there IS NO year zero. There are 10 years in a decade, so the last year of the first decade was 10, the first year of the next decade was 11. Taking this to today- there are 1000 years in a millenium, so the last year of the first (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) BUT ... you ARE the first CLSOTW of the new Millenium. So think of it as starting out on a strong note;) Worth the wait, no? -- pn (hoping to have his site up very soon) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) site: didn't I vote for Port Block before? Over and over again. Must be that Y2K hangover. Bruce (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Gentlemen, Picked up CLSOTW this week, and yes, for those of you who were watching, it took a depressingly long time - Pirates just doesn't seem to have that wider appeal. Just as well really - more interest means higher prices, and prices are (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: John E. Doolittle
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(...) The dishonorable and lecherous Captain Lance Boyle, on half-pay, is in the employ of Malcom P Waite, and is in pursuit of our anti-hero. No trick is too underhanded for him, and on top of it, he has the hots for Miss Waite. He has the usual (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: John E. Doolittle
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote >The pirate babe is his older ex-partner's daughter - she just didn't want to (...) fooling (...) ya (...) Too (...) I'm (...) hostage, (...) So not only is the honest, brave, shrewd Capt John E. Doolittle pursued by the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Port Block sees in the new nineteenth century
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ffilz@mindspring.com (Frank Filz) wrote in <386CD901.7AAE@mindspring.com>: (...) Sorta. My wife and I are working on slowly working on rebuilding the sets from a large collection I picked up on Ebay a few months ago. We break out the bins on some (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.general)
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(...) Waite any longer. Which is just as well, since Doolittle's wife was fooling around with his partner! As to whether they were barristers or soliciters, ya got me! We only have one form of lawyer here (all at once: And That's One Too Many!). ;-) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) Ok Ok, <<rummages for Y2k compliant pencil>> I'll need to build the inside of a London Law firm ... no problem. This guy's getting quite a history. Cool! So he's an associate with a top London firm, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Pirate's Lost Island
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Lovely piece of work. -- Paul Davidson Thomas Main <main@appstate.edu> wrote in message news:FnM9AK.MAB@lugnet.com... (...) Lost (...) the (...) following (...) room) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Johnny Doolittle (was re: Pirate's Lost Island)
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(...) Doolittle & Waite). As to communicating with animals, heck, even I can do that (and boy am I sorry, since my proper pirate's bird is yakking his head off at the moment). Bruce (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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Tony Priestman wrote (...) Hey hey. I like it. Almost has a Tiberius Flint flavour. Flint the soldier fighting through the ages, Doolittle the Procurer of Obscure Treasures through the ages, currently preying on ships returning to England laden with (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Richard Parsons (<Fnn6J4.55G@lugnet.com>) wrote at 05:41:51 (...) What, Johnny Doolittle? Founder of a dynasty of treasure-seeking adventurers, famed for their suave moustaches? (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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Thomas Main wrote (...) Lost (...) the (...) German pirate architect ;-) Vicious pirate captain though, wearing a coat obviously stripped of a dead imperial. Navy is going to be on to him :-) And I have never seen antennae used with the big arch. I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Yes - I'm taking my trains into work with me tonight for the weekend, and I'm cracking open a 4532, 4537, 4539, 4547, and 4549 to build. -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Pirate's Lost Island
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That is a beautiful construct! I love it. I had some trouble getting all of the pages to load. I don't know if it's a problem with Xoom or what, but it took several tries before I could see some of the pages (both theme3.html and theme4.html refused (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Pirate's Lost Island
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I just took some pictures of a MOC I've been working on called Pirate's Lost Island. It's my attempt to make a set similar in design and function to the sets Lego used to make in the Pirate's theme. Take a look at the following URL: (URL) features I (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Port Block sees in the new nineteenth century
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(...) This begs the question: Is anyone planning any LEGO celebrations of the new year/millenium (yea, I know, the new millenium doesn't actually start for another year)? (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.general)
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