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(...) <snip> I do endeavour to say 'lego bricks' in conversations. And when I write about my chosen hobby, I try to write "LEGO Bricks" when referring the bricks themselves. To be said, though, I do write or say 'My LEGO creation' instead of 'My (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) I don't say that either, but I frequently say just "bricks". Or "I build with LEGO bricks." (...) Ahh... well I can't see those as good analogies, because TSR owned D&D at the time, you'd never said "let's play TSR!" And Scrabble is a game (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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Today's (23 December 2003) New York Times has an interesting article on Walmart's effect on the toy market -- pushing toy-specific retailers to the brink. General thrust is that Walmart and sometimes Target are selling numerous toy items below their (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) There are two carpenters on that show, one of whom is female. There is no "other girl." I think that the host and decorator handled it pretty well, since it was clear this was probably the first time either of them had met an AFOL. Besides, (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) I'm NEVER going to say "Lego brand building elements" in casual converstaion(beyond noting it as I just did). What the company has to do legally and what some anal-retentive lawyer thinks I must do when talking about it are two different (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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I would like to say a few words about a couple of things in this thread. I think the push to not use the word "LEGOS" comes directly from old catalogs from the 1970s and 80s. They use to have a paragraph at the end of the last page from Susan (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) I was waiting for this to come up. I know I have disappeared to all but a lurker this last year (I was one of the top 50 noisemakers of 2002) but I still read. Some know I co-run (URL) BrickBros>, which nicely complitments my hobby. Anyway, (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) Not militant, merely persnickety. One's bad, the other's a charming quirk. See how that works? :-) (...) He was mayor of Carmel CA (I think it was Carmel, I know it was somewhere in CA), so he has a little experience. Also he's made vaguely (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Not being a fuddy duddy...take your Marketing 101. When a brand name is repeated several times, the brand name tends to be associated with any product that is similar (i.e. the term "Xerox"...Xerox made the first copy machine...so instead of (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Well, not to split hairs any more than we have to....but isn't AFOL's amisguided plural as well? Sure, AFOL= Adult Fan Of Lego....it may be too difficult to split the acronym, but, technically speaking, AFOL's == Adult Fans Of Lego. 8---) Mike (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) LOL yeah at least Clint pronounced every word correctly when he threatened people with "...a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off...". Even if he does have a funny accent. Punk. Clint Eastwood (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) <snip> The only thing I can think of when I hear 'mundanes' is the whole 'teep vs mundane' thing that JMS had goin' on in B5... Dave K (21 years ago, 21-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Dang, I was so ready to pounce until I got to the end of the sentence. (...) And whether or not you agree with Lar, the fact is that you are judged by your choice of words. It's similar to insisting on speaking a vernacular other than Standard (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) { "Natural" == "Correct" } == FALSE (...) Saying LEGOS (instead of LEGO brand building elements) shows lack of respect for the brand and the concept. Most mundanes could care less about the distinction (but not much less (1) ). Pointing it out (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) If it makes you feel better, I hated it as a kid too. :) I had a friend who used the improper plural and it sounded just as wrong back then as it does today. (...) But then why bother teaching kids anything? For example, why bother sharing the (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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I've never really understood why AFOL's get upset when people say "LEGOS" instead of "LEGO". Yes, I know that LEGO is the brand name and not the name of the pieces. It's just that LEGO seems to strive to enrich kids' childhoods and to bring out the (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) No, just to the cold, cold basement. 8--) It seems odder that the first thing the husband asked upon his return was 'what happened to the big lego head?' I found this rather funny, but maybe he liked it most because it was all one piece, and (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) From the While You Were Out message board (written by LegoBeth): "I love LEGO! I am now rebuilding the LEGO room in a better location - the room with the LEGO fireplace! Anyway, nobody is allowed in "Jay's" Blue Room, except the digital cable (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Snippage... What I saw of the episode was that she was very nervous about the whole thing. Obviously she thought that the Lego creations were a little overwhelming for her husband, so she wanted to do a non-Lego room for him. Fair enough I say. As a (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) [snip] (...) Actually, my wife thought that the carpenter and the woman who broke the red bookcase (I don't normally watch this show) seemed to actually understand the labor that probably went into the construction. The designer clearly (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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