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Lego Christmas Production Shortage
shadowspar writes, "Recent restructuring and production cuts have left Lego unable to fill orders for the upcoming holiday season. Affected products include Duplo bricks, Lego City sets, and (horror of horrors!) Star Wars and Lego Technik sets." According to the article Lego stands to lose $127 million in holiday sales.
This is just terrible. You simply can't imagine the disappointment this will cause me- uh, I mean, will cause little Junior this Christmas. He really wants a Lego Millenium Falcon. It's just so cute when he says "ma-ma" but he just can't quite get "-llenium Falcon" part of the ship's name out. Of course, he'd just eat the mini-figures, so the set will have to stay in my room.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Same thing with my little nephew. He keeps saying "Da-da" but can't get out "gobah" I just don't have the heart to tell him there is no such set.
But seriously now. I bought the id of some old geezer on Ebay. Went for quite a bit, but well worth it. I don't think any of the first 1000 is still alive. Most of them died of Malaria when digging the trenches for the first Internet pipes. That Gore guy really made them sweat....
Stephan
That would be "touché."
The most upsetting part is that we can't get nano-legos. I have a complete design for a self-replicating Lego nano-factory. If only I had started sooner, then I would have been able to solve their production limitations forever.
I will create a sig when innovation restarts in the U.S.
At this point, I think "touchy" would make a good reply.
In the very first generation of the Internet, you had to print out your internets and deliver them by hand to their destination. All were in agreement: this was stupid.
The second generation was brought about when Vint Cerf set up a system of dump trucks to carry large numbers of internets at once. This system had the advantage of very large capacity, for as Claude Shannon famously proved, "You can pile a metric fuckton of internets into a dump truck." However, this system was notoriously slow, sometimes taking days to deliver an internet, and occasionally internets were lost by falling out of the truck. The major leap in Internet usability came in the third generation, when St. Gore took the initiative in constructing an international network of pipes to carry internets nonstop.
With the advent of video internets, however, it became clear that these pipes were too often getting clogged. While many clamored for a return to the days of Internet over Dump Truck, Netmaster Ted Stevens realized that the expense of a large fleet of dump trucks would prevent vital public works projects from proceeding, especially a 300 million dollar bridge in Alaska which could potentially win the War on Terror and cure cancer. Therefore, he developed the more cost-effective Internet of today, a series of tubes which carry enormous, but sadly finite amounts of internet material.
Really?
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
Yep, and i think they just modded you up.