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<!--QuoteBegin-Richard K Niner+May 17 2005, 06:22 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Richard K Niner @ May 17 2005, 06:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> What's he going to do? Open a Lego blood donor clinic? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Well, you were the ones talking about stepping on Legos on the floor. It is the next "logical" step in the process . . . <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
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"Perhaps they've discovered the giant whoopee cushion I hid
under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/01/03/ozy-and-millie-819/
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<!--QuoteBegin-VisibilityMissing+May 17 2005, 09:15 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (VisibilityMissing @ May 17 2005, 09:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-Richard K Niner+May 17 2005, 06:22 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Richard K Niner @ May 17 2005, 06:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> What's he going to do? Open a Lego blood donor clinic? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Well, you were the ones talking about stepping on Legos on the floor. It is the next "logical" step in the process . . . <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> That would be me actually. And I hope you're using the term "logic" very very loosely.
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That background in the second panel's going to be tricky for the House Rules team to colour.<br><br>Sooo... this centrifuge... is it made of traditional Lego, or Technik?
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<!--QuoteBegin-FelixSoftpaw+May 17 2005, 05:22 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (FelixSoftpaw @ May 17 2005, 05:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>LEGO!!!!!!!!!</span><br><br>[bounces lots and starts building stuff, the whole floor covered with scattered legos] <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Heee.. this strip has coincided with my friend Indy giving me his Lego collection. <!--emo&^_^--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /happy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='happy.gif' /><!--endemo--> Now to find enough floor space to play with all of them!<br><br>My room is such a mess... Indy's collection is the box on the floor on the far right of the picture below. As of right now, the rest of my Lego collection has been put back under my bed until I can sort through the new pieces. Ooh, pirates! hehehee already got the ninjas. Lots of old Space sets and some Technic too. <!--emo&^_^--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /happy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='happy.gif' /><!--endemo--> Pneumatic.... purrr
<!--QuoteBegin-VisibilityMissing+May 18 2005, 12:47 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (VisibilityMissing @ May 18 2005, 12:47 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Wax cylinders are an old sound recording technology, a little bit older but roughly contemporary with the 76 rpm record. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> 78rpm actually. And I'm fairly certain wax was used before them. I think the 78's are contemporaries of the acetates.
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<!--QuoteBegin-Jacob+May 18 2005, 03:58 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Jacob @ May 18 2005, 03:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-VisibilityMissing+May 18 2005, 12:47 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (VisibilityMissing @ May 18 2005, 12:47 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Wax cylinders are an old sound recording technology, a little bit older but roughly contemporary with the 76 rpm record. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>78rpm actually. And I'm fairly certain wax was used before them. I think the 78's are contemporaries of the acetates. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> You're right, they are 78's. I'm always a few rpm's short <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> <br><br>The wax cylinder was actually in use as a dictation recording media into the '40's and '50's. Acetates were the disk equivalent, more common for home use.
"The beauty of this is that it is only of theoretical importance,
and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
- Sidney Harris
"Perhaps they've discovered the giant whoopee cushion I hid
under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/01/03/ozy-and-millie-819/
and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever."
- Sidney Harris
"Perhaps they've discovered the giant whoopee cushion I hid
under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/01/03/ozy-and-millie-819/
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If we're going to start posting Lego photos... <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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