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Re: This is cool!
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Date: 
Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:02:56 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava writes:
I was unaware of the vast number of people out there who do not like legos one
bit.

  ADOLS ~ Adult Despisers Of LEGO... scary to think that for every one of
us, there is one of them!  i've met people who think my passion for lego is
an _absolute_ waste of my time and talent and are disgusted by the amount of
$ i spend on it. they don't see the value of creative play at all, which is
sad.  honestly, it has become impossible for me to even become friends with
these kinds of people.  ...and if you're making up names and stories to go
with your lego, forget it!

I've gotten hundreds of messages telling me my site sucks.

  i have'nt gotten any of those, but i've gotten some pretty weird e-mails
from non-afol webtv-ers when my site was featured in the january webtv
newsletter.  they all were pretty positive, and the worst i got was someone
informing me that i have way too much free time. (ha! if they only knew!)

But don't
worry though, I've not ratted any of you out, I've taken one for the team.


  anthony sava ~ martyr for the cause! the philistene ADOLS must be overcome!

  later ~ craig~

In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava writes:
Hey Hey Hey, check this out!  My site
http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.hml
has been linked as the awful link of the day on something awful dot com!

nifty!

http://www.somethingawful.com



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  Re: This is cool!
 
(...) Heh. I've got to admit that sometimes *I'm* disgusted by the amount of $ I spend on it, but that doesn't stop me from spending even more! Dave! (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: This is cool!
 
(...) Huh. I haven't gotten any of those. I have gotten plenty of people that don't understand, or give the kind of condescending "oh, isn't that nice" response. The latter is infuriating to me, and I just stop discussing it with them and move on to (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
  Re: This is cool!
 
(...) If you change that to Adult Despisers of Lego Fans, you've got ADOLFS, a more accurate/descriptive acronym. (...) I've gotten that comment a lot too (oddly, from people who casually collect Lego). Friends who normal think lego is far to (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)

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  Re: This is cool!
 
I was unaware of the vast number of people out there who do not like legos one bit. I've gotten hundreds of messages telling me my site sucks. But don't worry though, I've not ratted any of you out, I've taken one for the team. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)

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