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Re: Throwing Down the Gauntlet (was Re: 2nd Annual Space Building Contest?)
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lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space
Date: 
Mon, 3 Dec 2001 18:41:29 GMT
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In lugnet.build.contests, Richard Marchetti writes:
> Hey Y'all:
> 
> Submitted for your disapproval in Category VIII - "Ugliest, Wackiest Thing
> in Space" (defending my status as the current holder of the honor from the
> first annual contest, natch), I give you Blacktron "Orca" Class Space
> Freighters!
> 
> http://members.aol.com/blueofnoon4/lego/btorca.html

Aw, come on... fantasy pieces!  I spotted at least 2 parts that clearly
never came in those colors.  I realize that the Scrutinizer did allow this,
but you aren't getting *my* votes.

Am I serious here?  Or am I saying this only because I'm still jealous
because I had a good contender for the "Ugliest, Wackiest Thing in Space"
last year?  Or is it a bit of both?  I'm not saying for sure...

> Bring it on, you duffers!

All right.  That does it.  I'm sending my Blacktron engineers back to the
drawing board, and not sparing the hallucinogens! *

Nice model & presentation, though you don't get a "very" on that, mr. Frog.
I'm watching you...

--
Tony Hafner
www.hafhead.com

* I would never condone the use of illicit drugs in the real world.  Never
used them myself, and I'm NOT kidding.



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  Re: Throwing Down the Gauntlet (was Re: 2nd Annual Space Building Contest?)
 
(...) Not true -- just one element is in dispute, the front cab windshield. What other element did you have in mind though? The proof is that I have the thing built and sitting on the living room television. The CAD work was after the fact and (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

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  Throwing Down the Gauntlet (was Re: 2nd Annual Space Building Contest?)
 
Hey Y'all: Submitted for your disapproval in Category VIII - "Ugliest, Wackiest Thing in Space" (defending my status as the current holder of the honor from the first annual contest, natch), I give you Blacktron "Orca" Class Space Freighters! (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

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