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Re: Letter to the LEGO President...
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 5 Nov 1999 07:14:17 GMT
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In lugnet.general, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> In lugnet.general, Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> writes:
> > [...]
> > ....The online LEGO community numbers well over one thousand Adult
> > Friends of LEGO (AFOL for short). This number has doubled in the last
> > 18 months, and will probably double again in the next year, and continue
> > growing fast into the future. [...]
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> I haven't studied the growth rates, so I can't confirm that hypothesis, but
> it's safe to say that it numbers well over three thousand.
Oh -- I almost missed pointing out something pedantic. :) AFOL can
certainly mean whatever you want it to mean since it's a made-up acronym and
not anything official, but I hafta point out that no one ever uses AFOL to
mean Adult *Friends* of LEGO -- they always mean Adult *Fans* of LEGO.
"Adult Fan of LEGO" is also what was meant when the term AFOL was coined.
More background:
http://www.lugnet.com/general/?n=2940
The phrase "Friends of LEGO" may also ring a bit too much like "friends of
the LEGO Group" rather than friends/fans of the brick (i.e. product).
--Todd
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