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Re: Where did the lego's go? —Dave Schuler

(...) Perhaps you've seen the miles of aisles at Toys R Us chock full of Galidor and Jack Stone merchandise, which don't vanish from the shelves even at deep (like 80%) discount. (...) Where do you work, which set # was it, how much were you selling (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Where did the lego's go? —Andrew Verner

(...) You say it like you're surprised Galidor and Jack Stone aren't selling. ^_^ -Andrusi && Sanity not included. (21 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Where did the lego's go? —David Gregory

(...) Nope. My Toys R Us only has a few Galidor left and no Jack Stone. (...) I work at a hardware store called Menard's. They aren't all over the country like Lowe's. We're based in Wisconsin and don't have any stores south of Indiana. I think (...) (21 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)

Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —Allan Bedford

(...) Like 'LEGO'? ;) Is it misspelled or just invented? Either way, it's not a word that's likely to be recognized by many scholars as being spelled correctly. (...) Actually, there's a very serious reason why companies purposely misspell words (...) (21 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —Leonard Hoffman

(...) DUDE! Do your lego research! 'LEGO' was originally derived by Ole Kirk Christianson as a contraction of the Danish phrase 'leg godt,' meaning, "play well." However, 'lego' is also latin for 'to put together.' <snip> (...) Actually, lego was (...) (21 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —Allan Bedford

(...) All true. And good to point out. I guess my point was to illustrate that the LEGO company name is one of those words you won't find in a standard English dictionary... for the reason that it's an obscure or otherwise unique word that could be (...) (21 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —Pedro Silva

(...) In Portuguese it's a 1st person Present form of "to leave legacy" (as in a will, "I leave... to..."). Try to find LEGO-related websites in Portuguese to see what I'm talking about - about half the sites refer to legal talk over legacies :-/ (...) (21 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —David Gregory

(...) Man, I had no idea anyone EVER took what I said seriously. : ) Just so everyone knows, whenever I post ANYTHING on the internet (here, there, anywhere), it's not meant to be taken too seriously. It's just the internet, and I've never met (...) (21 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —Allan Bedford

WARNING: Overly analytical and highly anal retentive reply follows. :) (...) I guess my honest and sincere response to that statement would be: Why wouldn't you expect to be taken seriously? If you reread your posting: (URL) much of the message you (...) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —Maggie Cambron

(...) C'mon Allan, he calls himself "Fuzzy"-- how serious can he be? :-) Maggie C. (21 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —Allan Bedford

(...) I'm not sure what "lacking sharp distinctness or clarity" has to do with being serious or not. ;) Sincerely... but not seriously, Allan B. (21 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Trademarks and misspellings... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —David Gregory

DUDE! I totally agree with you on the whole phonetic-spelling-is-better thing. I know that English has the most horrific spelling of any language on the planet, but if people are writing in that language, then they should spell the words right. (...) (21 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Trademarks and misspellings... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) Sounds like Swedish spelling this far :) Fotograf is actually thr Swedish spelling for photografer. Funny story, thanks! Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (21 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Trademarks and misspellings... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —Allan Bedford

(...) I don't know that I'd call it horrific, but it's certainly in a class of its own. I have found that by trying to understand the etymology (1) of certain words you can actually grow fond of the bizarre ways in which they are spelt... or is it (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Trademarks and misspellings... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —Arne Lykke Nielsen

(...) Actually, it has been more or less officially done. When Norway became an independent country, they tried to rid the Norwegian language of the influence from the two former mothercountries, Denmark and Sweden. This resulted in the constructed (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Where did the lego's go? —David Gregory

(...) I found the set #'s to two of the Mega-Blok buckets: 974 and 976. I couldn't get to the other ones because they had been put away. These are the same buckets I've seen in Wal-Mart for $10. I underestimated when I said we had 300 buckets. We (...) (21 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)