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Re: "Graham Rawle's Lost Consonants"
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lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk
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Sat, 13 May 2000 14:35:54 GMT
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"Scott A" <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> writes:
> "Graham Rawle's Lost Consonants" is a weekly item in a newspaper I read.
> Each week a sentence is given, and GR removes a consonant to show how it can
> changes the meaning. Sometimes he can be quite funny, and sometimes not
> (although my kids find him funny most weeks). This week it featured Lego:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4381
I really liked this one. Really funny stuff, although one shouldn't
write "lego" when one means "LEGO brand building bricks", as the
illustration suggests! ;-)
It's also funny in the pretext of some AFOL's around here having a large
ego! (No offense, anyone.)
Fredrik
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| (...) That's a matter of some controversy...in _50 Years of Play_, a book written by Lego System A/S, Denmark...the text reads: "The name LEGO was formed from the Danish words "Leg godt", meaning "Paly well". The company and its toys were thereafter (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| "Graham Rawle's Lost Consonants" is a weekly item in a newspaper I read. Each week a sentence is given, and GR removes a consonant to show how it can changes the meaning. Sometimes he can be quite funny, and sometimes not (although my kids find him (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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