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Re: Reuters report on Lego at New York Toy Fair
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Sun, 11 Feb 2001 14:32:34 GMT
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lawrence wilkes wrote:

"Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message
news:3A8606AE.4E3755E3@vfaq.com...
lawrence wilkes wrote:

settings?  Seems to me that boxing and WWF and things like that are • violence
for the sake of violence (or more accurately, entertainment).

But surely WWF is the fantasy setting!
It cant be called violence. No one gets hurt.

Tell that to the guy that died last year from a stunt gone wrong.

Or Mick "Mankind" Foley, who had his ear ripped off...

Surely that is the point
it was "a stunt gone wrong"
No one deliberately set out to hurt him or kill him did they?

Ah, but you didn't say "nobody is deliberately trying to hurt anybody else",

you said "No one gets hurt."  There's a world of difference between the two.

J



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  Re: Reuters report on Lego at New York Toy Fair
 
Folks, This WWF discussion should not be in general. FUT to off.topic.debate or off.topic.fun, whatever suits your fancy. Thanks! Scott S. -- Want LEGO Elements at Great Prices? Visit The Sanburn Systems Company www.sanburnsystems.com Scott E. (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)

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"Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message news:3A8606AE.4E3755...faq.com... (...) Surely that is the point it was "a stunt gone wrong" No one deliberately set out to hurt him or kill him did they? regards lawrence (23 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)

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