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Re: LEGO starting to realize we exist in recent web site "Did You Know"
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Date: 
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 03:47:49 GMT
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Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote:
play or have played with LEGO bricks. A statistician has reckoned that,
every year, children spend almost 5,000,000,000 hours playing with LEGO
bricks. 98 per cent of total LEGO production is sold outside Denmark.

Well, not to be too cynical, but I would tend to read that sentence as
meaning the adults are the ones who "have played" with LEGO bricks.

Yeah -- I notice that the statistician hasn't bothered to reckon the number
of hours adults spend.

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: LEGO starting to realize we exist in recent web site "Did You Know"
 
(...) Well, not to be too cynical, but I would tend to read that sentence as meaning the adults are the ones who "have played" with LEGO bricks. We know the truth, though. :) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)

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