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This is interesting. Accessory MOCs. Like this? There's also some great galleries of furnishings that aren't specifically piratical but can be used that way with a little imagination. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=103753 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=225863 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=133999

Exactly, it's a joke but not a racist joke. ;-) I assume you refer to the imperial in your second sentence, so I shall inform you that it is Tarkin before Episode three. Obviously he he is not yet Grand Moff as the position is already taken by that small green fellow. Ahh! What's this? There appears to be an intruder on level 3! *Code Red Intruder Alert* Seal off quadrants delta trough eta! Security, get down there now! Agh, there getting away!!

Thanks again for the feedback! X-D I forgot to take a photograph of one of the smaller details. I'll do that in a day or so when I'm reunited with my Lego again. Nope, it's snow not ice. ;-) I was trying to build one of them with angles plates for sides, but I'm running out of white between Hoth, the Police station, the yacht, and the large residential house. :-/ Yes! Good eye! Satellite? Where exactly would that be? 8-| Thank you, as I said before I might get a one of them big turrets...I think an ion cannon would be too big...

Because I am strangely impulsive I give you the minifigs! The people that have specific jobs; Fisherman:Bus Driver:Shrimper:Guardbooth:Pushcart Merchant:Bank Manager:Beach Hut Merchant:Postman:Public Works:Public Works:Business Man:Chef:Doctor:Doctor: :Mime: The younger civilians; The older/middle-age civilians; Civilians that didn't fit in the picture; Anachronisms; Inanimate objects;

Very nice. I like the existing skin images and the idea. It's not that complicated and I think it's more orginized (and very cool). Good job, Admins! *y* You are aware that there is a link on the front page inside the threater forum box, no? If you want to come directly here you just click it and if it is too small to click, it would seem you are above 80 and too old and decripid to be here, assuming you are in good health. ;-) :-P

Sick? Who are you calling sick? General oo7 to the Death Star.... Imperial Filth, we have captured one of your leading officers and we are holding him in custody, perhaps we could set up a little compensation. Or we could have the hostage die. Your choice. This is NOT a racist joke. This is IS part of the STAR WARS story. The people in the Star Wars universe do not actually speak or write English. The above is NOT arabic but something similar. And we have had much worse vignettes posted here anyway even by very respected members. ;-) This message was given with all due respect. oo7 out.

And that, my friend, is why I linked the Snopes page. ;-)

Looking nice. I like that archaic feeling Sandstone combined with the modern influence in archeitecture of the building in the third picture, that at first I thought was the library it was so fitting. I think you should either swap around the library and hospital or move the library into the hospital, make the current library a shop, and create a new, modern but mundane, 'box building' for the hospial. And of course, you would need to remove those Caduceuses. I love the cute baby carrage and all the little anachronisms, I think I even see a contemporary Goliath in there. :-P

Thank you for all the kind compliments! It's tempting to move this to the new Star Wars forum.....but then I no longer have control of it! Hmm.... I saw the Millennium Falcon pieces being used in another Hoth MOC....I didn't realize they were bigger than mine before now. But I dont think I have room for bigger anyways. 8-| Thanks, I hope to add even more in the near future! I only have one stormtrooper and he's inside. I also have no Snowtroopers so I don't think stormtroopers will be any better than clone troopers because they're all supposed to be snowtroopers. Does that make any sense? Yeah, same with me. Oh well. I shall keep y'all updated.

I posted a picture earlier in the "projects" thread, and now I have more. Without futher ado; Hoth. In eager anticipation for the new Hoth set I built this a month or so ago. And the prospect of ripping apart some city buildings was really tempting but I managed to resist. More in Flickr (in signature).

How about you practice with these now, and maybe even suceed and re-upload them to Brickshelf. Right now it's very hard to judge the MOC, and I have one of the larger moniters.

Heh, that's pretty funny. It reminds me of the Barometer story! The Barometer Story by Alexander Calandra - an article from Current Science, Teacher's Edition, 1964. Some time ago, I received a call from a colleague who asked if I would be the referee on the grading of an examination question. It seemed that he was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed he should receive a perfect score and would do so if the system were not set up against the student. The instructor and the student agreed to submit this to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected. The Barometer Problem I went to my colleague's office and read the examination question, which was, "Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer." The student's answer was, "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower the barometer to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building." Now, this is a very interesting answer, but should the student get credit for it? I pointed out that the student really had a strong case for full credit, since he had answered the question completely and correctly. On the other hand, if full credit were given, it could well contribute to a high grade for the student in his physics course. A high grade is supposed to certify that the student knows some physics, but the answer to the question did not confirm this. With this in mind, I suggested that the student have another try at answering the question. I was not surprised that my colleague agreed to this, but I was surprised that the student did. Acting in terms of the agreement, I gave the student six minutes to answer the question, with the warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics. At the end of five minutes, he had not written anything. I asked if he wished to give up, since I had another class to take care of, but he said no, he was not giving up. He had many answers to this problem; he was just thinking of the best one. I excused myself for interrupting him, and asked him to please go on. In the next minute, he dashed off his answer, which was: "Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, using the formula S= 1/2 at^2, calculate the height of the building." At this point, I asked my colleague if he would give up. He conceded and I gave the student almost full credit. In leaving my colleague's office, I recalled that the student had said he had other answers to the problem, so I asked him what they were. "Oh, yes," said the student. "There are many ways of getting the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer. For example, you could take the barometer out on a sunny day and measure the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the shadow of the building, and by the use of simple proportion, determine the height of the building." "Fine," I said. "And the others?" "Yes," said the student. "There is a very basic measurement method that you will like. In this method, you take the barometer and begin to walk up the stairs. As you climb the stairs, you mark off the length of the barometer along the wall. You then count the number of marks, and this will give you the height of the building in barometer units. A very direct method. "Of course, if you want a more sophisticated method, you can tie the barometer to the end of a string, swing it as a pendulum, and determine the value of 'g' at the street level and at the top of the building. From the difference between the two values of 'g', the height of the building can, in principle, be calculated." Finally, he concluded, "If you don't limit me to physics solutions to this problem, there are many other answers, such as taking the barometer to the basement and knocking on the superintendent's door. When the superintendent answers, you speak to him as follows: 'Dear Mr. Superintendent, here I have a very fine barometer. If you will tell me the height of this building, I will give you this barometer.'" At this point, I asked the student if he really didn't know the answer to the problem. He admitted that he did, but that he was so fed up with college instructors trying to teach him how to think and to use critical thinking, instead of showing him the structure of the subject matter, that he decided to take off on what he regarded mostly as a sham. Snopes

Julius Caesar (from memory) Decimus Iunius "Juvenal" Iuvenalis (wikiquote) Nice one. Carl Zwanzig......some SciFi author?

Oh, I knew he used that handle but I didn't see the two smaller sides for the clip because they blended in with the thicker sides on the handle as they have the same width. I still can't see the line exactly as the pictures fairly blurry, but it's definitely there. I previously assumed those were normal horizontal clip pieces.

Interesting. *y* A Police car designed for defence against collision with large marsupials and flood lights for dense forest. This is quite common for all cars where you live (which at first I would have thought to be Thailand)? Now you need to make a brickbuilt Kangaroo. X-D I've been desperately trying to figure out how you attached those round trans-yellow/green 1x1 plates on the sides. 8-| It's not via Lego, is it?

That's one beauty of a ship! *wub* I love the modules and the nicely detailed interior, ingenious hammocks! ALL HANDS ON DECK! There be a Kraken rampagin' off the larboard!

NOO! Not the Pokemans!!! Ahhh! MY EYES! IT BBBUUUURRRNNNNSSS!!!!!!!!!! *sing* On the other hand; 8-

Well I made this a while ago...is that something like what you're looking for? Also check out s-asbury's Fire Rescue gallery *wub* . Edit; Great minds think alike, eh?

Another update, This guy's on a roll! The builder says "It has a modern design which plays with the architectural elements of the adjacent historical buildings." I don't like it either. :-/

Nice, as always, but the pictures look a little small and grainy compared to what you usually have. Might I ask what the little cones and cylinders on the roof repersent? - Nathan, looking forward to tomorrow's posting *y*

Ah, It seems I've missed these. You are correct although I think it still does the job. Thank you for this wonderfully meaningful review, Sir Dillon! Yes, I only had two of those types of plate in brown, but now since I've bought the new AT-ST, that can be fixed. Maybe not a plane, but I might make some other WWI/WWII MOCs in the future. First I have to post the rest of my Hoth pictures. ;-)

Everything I've read is attempting to be so serious, they haven't cracked the punchline anywere! http://www.google.com/tisp/ I wonder how long they will keep this up for... X-D

In eager anticipation for the new Hoth set I built this a month or so ago. And the prospect of ripping apart some city buildings was really tempting but I managed to resist.

Some sort of CIA Spec Ops SWAT squad I presume?

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