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(...) What is so hard about getting these items? If I had $135 and I wanted a carribian clipper then this place sounds better than ebay because there is no way you can be outbid at the last minute. How come people from the US have not been asking (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Vivo en Los Estados Unidos. Bay Area, California to be exact. -- Richard (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Seems the different stores have totally different policies regarding Legos. Sets begin at more or less similar prices in all stores, but as they become older, some lower certain prices in order to get rid of the sets. But for some reason or (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) $99 in some stores and $190 in others! Hey, I'm Argentine! Pisses me off that at those prices there is little chance of the average child owning any of these terrific lego sets. And how do you explain the price variations, Marcelo? Que (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I'm not sure if one can find many Legos outside of Buenos Aires here in Argentina, at least old Legos like BSB. As these are expensive here, sometimes you can find stores with old stuff they have been unable to sell. Last year I bought Skulls (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) WTF??? Caribbean Clippers still new in a toystore??? This is Argentina we're talking about here--not only are they expen$ive as all get out, most people don't have the money to buy them. However, I'm surprised that you found them in Buenos (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Just make sure you use your stop-motion voodoo power for good, not evil...;) best, Lindsay (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) WTF??? Black seas baracudas still new in a toystore??? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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I live in Buenos Aires and found 2 brand new Caribbean Clippers in a toy shop. I intend to buy and keep both. The sad part is each costs $135. I'll try to negotiate a better price as they've been there for many years untouched together with a couple (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) culture (...) with (...) the (...) Already done it, believe it or not! :) I'm thinking of making a web page showing him singing the song. Paul Davidson (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Mr L F Braun (<388A36BC.B326FBD@p....msu.edu>) wrote at 23:01:16 (...) Ooh! A - fine idea. It's in :-) The singing and dancing pirates of Penzance. They've never been caught, because their songs are so foot-tappingly good, that (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Of all the G&S operettas, I think _Pirates_ is my favorite. (The movie, with Kevin Kline as the Pirate King, is quite good as well.) Hmm...(starts pondering a minifig version of Major-General Stanley...maybe the Adventurer Professor head?) J (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Arrrr...dancin' pirates...it be so disturbin'. (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Just letting you all know that I'll be taking in some swashbuckling culture when I go to see the Pirates of Penzance at the Opera in Edmonton next Saturday. :) -- Paul Davidson (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Hello Paul Thanks for your offer, I would be very interested as this is the last ship I´m looking for my Pirates and this set was never available in Germany. If you still can get one for me and if it´s not too much trouble to send it to (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Mr L F Braun wrote (...) theft-with-the-help-...ber-locals thing--after all, that ship will take quite a few people to operate, even if the captain goes along with it (because in order for it to succeed, you've got to do it without most of the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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<3882AC0B.420D2906@p...t.msu.edu> <FoHHML.7B6@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) I like it! However, I still really like the theft-with-the-help-...ber-locals thing--after all, that ship (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Mr L F Braun wrote a truly epic story. It needs a bit of a beginning. How about..... So, at the height of their (John E. and Aurora's) success, while Waite is broken and penniless having blown his not inconsiderable fortune in vain (and often comic) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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<38824981.7374FB63@p...t.msu.edu> <FoGAr7.1Fv@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Thank God it wasn't any better, or you would have "kewled" me or something (or is that a "1.5" cool?). It (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Richard Parsons (<FoG7w2.BKt@lugnet.com>) wrote at 22:02:14 (...) 'fraid not. Time to call in craigo... Although, thinking about it, an adapted Islander babe might do the trick. (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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