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| I guess nobody here wants to enlighten me...I asked this question a couple of months ago and I will ask again: Where are you guys seeing a reference to either the words "futbol" or "football"...I have yet to see either word in a catalog or on the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Nope. Just not looking carefully enough. ;) The hyperlinks on the System page of the catalogue all have an alt-text which appears if you don't load images or - if your browser supports it - when you move your mouse over the icon. The icon in (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| That's simply because Lego.com is essentially an American site, probably maintained by American Lego personnel. -- Paul Davidson James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message news:FntIC4.Mzv@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) That's actually quite the opposite of likely, in this case. If the site were Americacentric, it would say "Soccer". Over here, "Football" is a silly game played with pigskin, that has little to do with feet. :) James (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| True, but a half-clever American will know that what he calls soccer is called football everywhere else. He just won't know how to spell. ;) -- Paul Davidson James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message news:Fnu6Bn.DGq@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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