Posted on 12/13/2007 4:46:16 PM PST by RDTF
Legos they're not just for good kids anymore.
A book written by two former employees of the Danish plastic-brick giant is burning up the Amazon.com sales charts and raising eyebrows on the other side of the Atlantic.
"Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against" was published in August by No Starch Press, a small independent publishing house based in San Francisco.
Its authors, Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley, both worked at the Lego Mindstorms robotics division before leaving to join an independent robotics firm.
"You'll learn to create working models that LEGO would never endorse," the book's page on the publisher's Web site promises. "Try your hand at a toy gun that shoots LEGO plates, a candy catapult, a high voltage LEGO vehicle, a continuous-fire ping-pong ball launcher, and other useless but incredibly fun inventions."
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(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Is that an erector set?
What? .....no “tin can” aft for plane guard?
Holy...that is sweet
Yep you read it there at FR. Some Seattle or San Fransicko school teaching the “virtues” of communism.
But I'll leggo my Legos, because their natural habitat/breeding ground is in carpet, and it's not safe to go barefoot through those areas at night.
I still needed to buy a book for my son for Christmas. I think I found a winner!
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FReeper lexicon latest entry.
They’ll reach the ultimate in geekdom with a floating-arm trebuchet.
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