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Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
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Tue, 25 Mar 2003 04:37:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Allan Bedford writes:

Guess I must have.  Since there wern't any smilies in the two messages by
the two Daves (to which I was replying) I took it to mean that the
conversation was meant to be taken at face value.  My reply, on the other
hand, contained 4 smilies... to indicates it was not meant to be taken too
seriously.  :)

As well, I directed follow-ups to my reply to off-topic.fun.  To further
drive home the point that I wasn't trying to be heavy-handed or "serious" in
my reply.  So maybe some of my humorous undertones were overlooked as well.  :)

Man, I had no idea anyone EVER took what I said seriously.  : )  Just so
everyone knows, whenever I post ANYTHING on the internet (here, there,
anywhere), it's not meant to be taken too seriously.  It's just the internet,
and I've never met anyone I'm replying to, so how serious could I really be
anyway.  I am glad you directed these things to the off topic catagory, 'cause
they're WAY off from where this string started.
    David

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  Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
 
WARNING: Overly analytical and highly anal retentive reply follows. :) (...) I guess my honest and sincere response to that statement would be: Why wouldn't you expect to be taken seriously? If you reread your posting: (URL) much of the message you (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
 
(...) All true. And good to point out. I guess my point was to illustrate that the LEGO company name is one of those words you won't find in a standard English dictionary... for the reason that it's an obscure or otherwise unique word that could be (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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