Thomas de Groot wrote:
> "stbenge" <^@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
>> Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>> "clipka" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht
>>>> (*... wanders off into nostalgic dreams...*)
>>>>
>>> We, grumbling old men, lwe ived before your blessed Lego generation :-)
>> Hah, I knew it :)
> 
> <grin>

We all get older, and there's nothing wrong with that :)

>>> with! Ah! Those were the days! I also owned a kind of forerunner to Lego 
>>> (don't remember the name just now) also with plastic bricks but a bit 
>>> larger...
>> American Building Bricks? For building houses mainly? If so, we had some 
>> hand-me-downs from our mother. Red and white blocks mostly, with smaller, 
>> narrower pegs which didn't hold tight. We had a very incomplete set 
>> though...
>>
> I still cannot remember the name... :-(  ...Age...   <grumbling in beard>
> Indeed, the bricks were white and red, and also transparant. They often did 
> not hold too well either.

What you describe sounds like the ones we had. My dad swears to the name 
I mentioned, though the last word might be Blocks and not Bricks.

Sam

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