Subject:
|
Re: IMPORTANT NEWS........!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.loc.au
|
Date:
|
Fri, 6 Apr 2001 06:39:34 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
646 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
>
> > My preference, for what it's worth, would be for AusLUG, over OzLUG (I
> > still have problems with Oz as a substitute for Australia/Aus. Must be my old
> > age!)
>
> It's not age! I'm grandma here (since nobody *admits* to being older) and Oz
> is fine with me. I use it all the time. It's more fun than Aus.
>
> Also, Oz has whimsy/fantasy associations that I find quite appropriate for
> our group, given Port Block, Andrastavia, Kyola Fire Dept, etc etc. Lets
> face it; many of us have long given up living in the real world :-) [Chuck
> another monkey on the barbie, Kerry!]
Do you grill them whole or delimbed?
> As for the issue of whether we are Lego enthusiasts or merely brick
> enthusiasts, I think it is fair to say that we are all Lego enthusiasts
> (whether we also dabble in the dark side or not) and that is the common
> element that unites us and hence defines us. We are not all fans of
> bricks-in-general, so that is not a good way to describe us.
>
> If the "Lego" word is to be denied to us in all forms, then OzLUG sounds
> best to me, as it emphasises our "Oz"-ness (in both senses) and our
> association with LUGnet.
These are excellent points. I'm almost convinced that it would be okay to
use the same acronym that everyone else does to describe the group!! And
it's the most obvious choice (at least to Lugnetters, if not the general
public). And there's the ItLUG and UKLUG precedents. Would this make us the
geographically largest LUG?
--DaveL (who really wouldn't mind if LegOZ becomes OzLUG or AusLUG)
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: IMPORTANT NEWS........!!!...!!!
|
| (...) Whole, eating the drumsticks is so much fun. Of course, being such feminine little maids, my piratesses will probably have a chestnut stuffing and serve the roast monkey in a raspberry coulis accompanied by a salad of wilted mixed leaves. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: IMPORTANT NEWS........!!!...!!!
|
| (...) still (...) age!) It's not age! I'm grandma here (since nobody *admits* to being older) and Oz is fine with me. I use it all the time. It's more fun than Aus. Also, Oz has whimsy/fantasy associations that I find quite appropriate for our (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
|
26 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
