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Hey all, I was just browsing E-Bay looking for various and sundry LEGO things, and an old thought came swimming back up into my addled brain: Do any of you ever contact E-Bay bidders to point out their stupidity in posting non-LEGO products under (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) On the one hand, I hear you and can sympathize in the same way most shopping AFOL's probably would. On the other, regardless of what we or TLG wants the word LEGO to mean, in common usage it is recognized as meaning 'any plastic interlocking (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Actually, I have great respect for those, and other, brand names who have had their uniqueness ground up and spit out by the tendency of language to apply brand identity in general terms. You see, I'm in advertising/publishing/design and am quite (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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No, no,no Lego is lego and anyone who professes to be ignorant as to what is and what isn't Lego has been living under a rock (brick?) is a liar. BTW Have LEGO sets ever been advertised anywhere as megablock or what have you? Think on ... RW John (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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