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Re: Newspaper article about the AFOL community
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lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
Date: 
Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:43:00 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Pierre Normandin wrote:
Hello,

Here's an article about the adult LEGO community published in the newspaper "La
Presse" in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and on their web site.

Featuring quotations from Christina Hitchcock, Calum Tsang, Jake McKee and
myself.  I hope you know a good online translator because the article is in
french.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actuel/article/1,4230,0,062004,705873.shtml

Pierre

An English translation (courtesy of Babblefish):
<http://world.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyberpresse.ca%2Foutil%2Fimprimer.php%3Fid%3DTnpBMU9EY3o%3D&lp=fr_en>

Gotta love computer translation for making things humerous...

I personally like "a[n] orgasme plastic" to describe the moment of completeing a
sculpture...and "A true orgy of Lego!"


-Rob A>



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  Re: Newspaper article about the AFOL community
 
(...) Heh, I thought that was pretty funny too-- although if I'm not mistaken, I think that's what was actually intended: "Un véritable orgasme plastique, pour lequel les vrais fans du célèbre jeu de construction sont prêts à tout." "Une vraie orgie (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Newspaper article about the AFOL community
 
Hello, Here's an article about the adult LEGO community published in the newspaper "La Presse" in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and on their web site. Featuring quotations from Christina Hitchcock, Calum Tsang, Jake McKee and myself. I hope you know a (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.org.ca.monlug)

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