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Old 04-23-07 | 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Big Paulie
Erector Sets seemed more up-to-date to me, Lincoln Logs were out of the past. So I vote for The Erector Set...
Yeah, real man-boys preferred tools, sharp edges and corners, and tiny screws and nuts that made Mom's vacuum cleaner sound like a hail storm on a tin roof.

Besides, lincoln logs were all gravity-based construction, there really wasn't any way to build impossibly cantilevered or unsupported structures that would stand a few minutes until stressed, leaving a pile of twisted steel and wreckage to be salvaged after the crash.

Ah, yes, I can hear my Father now; finding a loose screw on the linoleum floor in his bare feet. Those were the days...
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