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Re: About the term "AFOL"
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lugnet.general, lugnet.faq
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Thu, 26 May 2005 12:22:31 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler wrote:
> In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote:
> > In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > > In lugnet.general, Christian Treczoks wrote:
> > >
> > > > But: Who created this term? When? And where?
> > >
> > > IIRC: Todd, Here, a long time ago. YMMV.
> >
> > Heh, not according to Todd :)
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> > http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=2940
> >
> > Adrian got it right-- Jeff Thompson appears to be the first one who used the
> > term "Adult Fan Of Lego" on RTL (June 13, 1995), and Matthew Verdier first
> > brought light to the acronym in reference to Jeff's post (June 14, 1995), which
> > quickly caught on.
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> Was Jeff "Nephilim?" There were giants in the earth in those days.
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> Wow. June 1995. I'm a newbie--I only started posting to RTL in January of 1998.
Looks like my first post was in Sep 15 1996, cool.
jt
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