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| ALE is Adult Lego Enthusiast, a newer (and preferred by at least some) term over AFOL. It's easier to pronounce as an acronym, sounds less stilted when you say it in words, and is generally more accurate too. See (URL) for the thread where it was (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Renaming be damned! I like old-school, old-time. (Eddie Shore!) Signed, An AFOL who builds MOCs who also may be a Curmudgeon, JOHN (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) "mock" is already a word, so I propose we pronounce it like "smoke" and "choke" ~Kevoh (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) To purists, I barely qualify as an "AFOL," but even I agree that that term is preferable to "ALE." AFOL has history behind it, and its creation was organic, rather than deliberate, and it therefore has greater aesthetic appeal to me on those (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) So, you like it better because there was little thought behind it? Next you'll be saying you voted for Bush. :) (...) Some people spell it out, but even that isn't very euphonic -- unlike the other initialisms you mention, AFOL when spelled (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Ahem, Joe, but they were mocking your hobby choice, not your title! :-) (...) I've always preferred "lush", but "wine taster" isn't much better. (...) Don't be surprised if they still laugh:-) (...) Joe, terms like "AFOL" are "in-house", part (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Holy moley, them's fightin' words! (...) I don't know. I can think of all kinds of abbreviations that don't snuggle into the ear all that pleasantly. The Society for Creative Anachronisms (The SCA, which sounds like ESS-YAY) is one such (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Huh-- I almost never say "fan of Lego" or "AFOL" to people who aren't in the hobby, because it just doesn't give them a good frame of reference. I think I've always said "Lego Hobbyist" because that's what people understand. Usually "fan" is (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Methinks he doth protest too much. Out with it-- that dirty little secret will eat you alive, Dave! <snip> (...) It may have been a little wily, but I categorically deny any nilly! If it ain't OT yet, I'll make it so, number 1! (FUTOTF) JOHN (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) I've often had to descibe myself and what I do in my class to school administrators, and I always use "Adult LEGO Fan", which I suppose would be ALF but I know you guys don't wanna be ALFs! Usually when I describe the community (especially the (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote: (snip) (...) (snip) Whenever I read "IMO" I pronounce it in my noggin as "ih-my-oh" all fluidlike, one word. Ihmyoh. The "ih" is like the beginning of "idiot", the "my" is just like the word, and the (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) OK, that was a low blow, I apologize! (...) Heh, true in that case, but that's because trains have become widely accepted as an adult hobby. LEGO has not. (...) Yes, and they'll be thinking: "This guy plays with LEGOs? Does he still live with (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) (URL) lol> I'm trying to push "neoilluminati" but it isn't taking:-( Maybe "Legoluminati"? Just trying to help. JOHN (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) It certainly is interesting following this thread..... I was a secret "AFOL/ALE" from 1980-86. No internet, no knowledge of any other adult who even cared about Lego. I was in the proverbial "Lego Closet" for all those years. Then 4 things (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) I could write: AFOL whose LEGOs are MOC'ed And my spell check gives: A fool whose legs are mocked. (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) That's a good point. If I were to hear a child described as "into trains," I would just assume that it meant Thomas, or maybe that he liked to watch his parents' train sets. More than being "accepted" as an adult hobby, I'd guess that it's a (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Dave, I got a good chuckle out of your knucklehead comments. Very funny! Eric (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) LOL, probably won't help much against a good sharp broadsword either... ROSCO (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) (URL) Moke> is also already a word, its a type of open (URL) Mini> tim (19 years ago, 4-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| Hello! (...) I say "eta" (That's a terror organization in the Spanish Basque region.) or E-T-A (meaning "estimated time of arrival"), R-S-V-P (what the heck is it?) and U-S-A. But I say "afol" and "mock" and "burp" because: (...) Or does anybody say (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hi JoJo! (...) Respondez Sil Vous Plait (1) HTH! ++Lar (can we pick one FUT? I think .people but what do I know?) 1 - IIRC(2)... it's French or something for "get back to me whether you are coming to my party or not because I need to know how (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| Hello! (...) Merci beaucoup! (...) I posted to .general because I wrote about something LEGO-related. And to .debate because it was debate-ish. (...) Yeah, thanks, I'm coming to that party! Would you pay for my taxi? (...) How do you pronounce (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Taxi OR beer, whichever's less. I guess... Assuming I have any money left after BF... Apparently some rumor got started that I'm buying rounds at Rocklands??? Gonna be hard to pull off because Nik'll be with me again this year and I don't (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Crap, there's always a catch isn't there? Rob (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) What a strange person! Acros are to save time typing, neh? So, why wouldn't one voice it out "in one's head"? Whenever I read an acro, I unsuffit. Unless a person is too important and their time too valuable to take that extra nanosecond or (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) The voices in my head talk slowly, so that I can understand what they are saying... apparently yours don't, and talk so fast that you're getting garbled messages? That certainly would explain a lot! (...) Yep, that's me all right... (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) Of all the people who *could* have responded to [JOHN], I knew you would be the first (if not the only) to chime in and say that. You're becoming too easy to read. Time to change your modus operandi... Rob (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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