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(...) <snip> I hate to be the grammar police, but this is one of my new pet peeves. I believe you mean that Allan's comments -prompt- your question. To beg the question means to -avoid- the question, or else to use your own conclusion as the basis (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You ask this question in .trains ??? Infidel. The answer is obvious. Go to the wasteland that is .starwars and repent. :-) (although at one dark point pre BrickLink(bay) I was contemplating raiding a built 4551 for its red corros... ) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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"Allan Bedford" <apotomeREMOVE-THIS@...vista.net> wrote in message news:GsHAKM.F9w@lugnet.com... (...) participating (...) "collecting Lego" (...) to (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Four years ago when I first re-discovered this hobby the thought of not (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) [snip] (...) But you've gotta[1] keep fighting the good fight anyway 8?) [1] That's gotta[1] be in a dictionary somewhere[2] [2] I just lerv[1] recursive footnotes 8?) ROSCO (who's noticed at least 5 spelling / grammatical errors in his recent (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) After I checked both dictionaries by my computer and then hiked down to the basement to the OED, all without results, I looked up "festouche" on Google-- now THAT certainly calls to mind an image. (...) So Lar, you have one listed in the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) We very much would like to see some mechs at future train shows. That was absolutely fantastic. What amused me was how the kids just crowded around whenever one of you took a mech off the table to show it off. The poor train modelers didn't (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Namibia is a former German colony (and their only in Africa, if I recall correctly), isn't it? That would make it more surprising to me if they didn't have a German paper than if they did. Alan (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Different interpretations of what it means to 'be snotty' I guess. I see snotty as taunting, presumptuous, know-it-all. I was trying to preface my comments (which *could* have sounded snotty) and let people know that I wasn't just flinging out (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> c /Scroedinger's/Schroedinger's/ (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I hear you say that and see that now. But when I read your original (requoting) (...) I seriously took your words to mean "this is wrong". The "may sound a bit snotty" is often a giveaway to that sort of "wrongness" sentiment. Had you said "I (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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This shot: (URL) Photoshopped?(1) Knowing the riff raff that HoMa hangs out with (2) I have my doubts. But I'm not 100% certain it's a spoof. It COULD make the front page of the paper, who knows (although I had no idea Namibia had a German paper... (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Neither do I. I didn't suggest it was wrong, only that I was curious why some folks like to keep sets unopened. It's a really hard concept for me to get my little brain around. :) (...) 100% for me, but then who's counting? (...) I suppose (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I must be missing some inside joke. Anyone care to fill me in? (...) I'm also enjoying some of the perks of adulthood. But I'm still in the dark about not opening LEGO sets. The curiousity would drive me crazy. I've bought multiple copies of (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Oh, Man! That's my LUGNET membership #! Consider a trade? Robert Powell (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I have an unopened Technic Space Shuttle. I've never seen one opened. And it kills me that I have not opened this one, but one day in a 100 years, my kids (not even close to reality yet) will have something fun from my generation to play with still (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Just received my train today, and unfortunately, while the number doesn't match any set, I'm quite happy with the number I did get... 777 It's pretty low for a release of 10,000 and triple sevens is doubly cool. I think the only other number (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hey that's great. Cool look at all that stuff. Legomaster (...) I always thought it wouild cool to have a huge Train/Mech-Mech bay/Town/Technical Facility/ Support industry / Space port set up. Having the Trains pull up and power loaders off load (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Hey, cool, my number is between your two! (...) I got the call and... *sigh*... it's a losing battle.... (...) This too may sound a bit snotty, but when I first got into LEGO I couldn't afford to even buy a single copy of every set I would (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ours is A4989, which sadly does not correlate to any LEGO set, according to the LUGNET database. My member number, 874, however, corresponds to an old Technic Accessory Set <set:874>. But I am pleased to report that after many years of trying (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snip> (...) Well, I should have waited for you to post yours, because I just wrote the same basic message. I agree completely with this sentiment, even though I only have 2.5 4558's, and none of them are MISB, and a mostly "complete" 6399 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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