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In lugnet.lego, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, David Gregory wrote:
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Awesome naming method! I had just gotten used to calling old/classic Grays
& Browns “True Gray” & “True Brown,” and the new grays and browns “false
gray” and “false brown.” I like your nomenclature better though. I think
I’ll start using it.
We could also call the new dark gray “Confederate
gray” and thus equate it with the evilness of slavery.
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Why stop there? Call it Nazi Death-Slaver Grey and you get the whole
spectrum.
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OK, now that’s just over the line. Assigning a color as “Nazi” is bad enough,
but adding “Death Slaver” to it pushes it over. Don’t like the color change?
Fine. But I personally take exception when someone associates a relatively minor
change in LEGO materials to WWII Nazi slavery. It’s simply not appropriate when
discussing a toy, especially one with a massive market share in Germany as
well as the rest of Europe.
Kelly
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| "Kelly McKiernan" <kelly@anagrafyxx.com> wrote in message news:Hx9zyp.13J@lugnet.com... (...) Isn't it even worse when certain Nazis take a few newsgroup posts a little too seriously? ;) It's not like someone's really going to connect LEGO with (...) (20 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) FYI, you might find this post of interest: (URL) Though I get the impression that "Wehrmachtsgrau" doesn't necessarily imply "Nazi" but military or army gray, instead. At least Babel Fish says it means "Armed forces-grey". Mark (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) It was intended in a sarcastic vein, which I appear to have failed to adequately express. I fully understand the logic behind calling it "Nazi grey" (I actually prefer "gun-metal grey"), on the basis that it's reported to be very close to the (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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