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Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:02:58 GMT
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> Fortunately, my wife is quite long-suffering and indulgent regarding my Lego
> vice. A successful strategy that I have found is to spend as much money on her
> as I do on Legos. This serves 3 purposes: It makes her happy, gives me a
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> bit more latitude, and is an incentive to cut back on my Lego expenditures.
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> James "Your droids . . . they'll have to wait outside." Simpson
I actually bought one of the little planes from the adventurers set, on a whim
(because I thought it was neat). Inside was the little brochure for the SW
sets, which really got me going. My fiance is pretty supportive of it. She'll
even urge me to buy sets when I decide not to (if I'm trying to save money, or
such). She says that the only thing that's stopping her from buying them
herself (for me, of course, though I've tried to get her involved by building
the droid fighter) is the fact that she doesn't know what I have and don't
have. The only time I've ever seen her balk is when she got a glimpse of my
reciept from that time TRU opened at midnight to sell episode 1 stuff . . . .
:)
-Jonathan
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| (...) When I heard that Lego was finally issuing a Star Wars line (which I had been dreaming of since 1978), I lost all self-control and bought assorted Knights, Robin Hood, and Indiana Jones sets to supplement the only legos I had, a mint-box 6080 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Fortunately, my wife is quite long-suffering and indulgent regarding my Lego vice. A successful strategy that I have found is to spend as much money on her as I do on Legos. This serves 3 purposes: It makes her happy, gives me a little bit (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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