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Re: IMPORTANT NEWS........!!!!!!!!!!!!
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lugnet.loc.au
Date: 
Thu, 5 Apr 2001 06:27:50 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Dave Low writes:
> > 
> > Any more (preferably serious) name suggestions out there? So far we've got
> > 1. AusLug
> > 2. LugOz
> > 3. OzStudz
> > 4. Blockheads
> > (I make no judgements on the last two, I'm just being complete :) )
> > 
> > If we can come up with a reasonable list of suggestions, we could have a
> > poll here on lugnet.
> 
> I have some quibbles about the LUG formation: there's a fairly high clone
> brand presence in Australia (cf Port Block, not Port LEGO Block), and by
> LUGNET standards we don't seem to be an especially techie group. On the
> other hand, it's widely used and bland.

I tend to disagree - I think the proportion of "techie" people on Lugnet isn't
that high either - unless you include the "trainie"s.

> OzStudz is a bit funnier, more generally applicable, and not a bloody
> acronym. But it's also a bit obscure, potentially unappealing, and leaves
> open the whole "are you a gang of LEGO fans or a Strip-o-gram company" can
> of worms.

It wasn't a serious suggestion - hence the smiley 8?)

> Blockheads takes the urine in a typically .au way, it's fairly obvious what • the
> joke is and the double entendre is totally innocuous. Brickheads would be a
> PG alternative. Blockheads might be confused with BLOC
> http://news.lugnet.com/org/us/bloc/, a recently formed American club.

I kinda like BlockHead. But tomorrow I might see the light...

ROSCO



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  Re: IMPORTANT NEWS........!!!...!!!
 
(...) Some considerations, snaffled from (URL) OzStudz isn't an acronym, its just funny in a non-PC non-genderspecific in-joke kind of way. 2.Modular bricks have studs and we aren't studs -- that's why it's funny. Non-members, including prospective (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

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