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In lugnet.starwars, piano254@aol.com (Jonathan) writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Todd Lehman writes:
> > In lugnet.starwars, piano254@aol.com (Jonathan) writes:
> > > PS . . . Just to keep this lego related, what does "AFOL" mean?
> > > I looked at it, and the best I could pull from it would be Avid
> > > Fan Of Lego, but something tells me that this isn't right . . . .
> >
> > Hey, that's a good one! But people usually mean "Adult Fan/Fanatic
> > of LEGO" when they write it. It's too bad that it looks so much like
> > "AOL" (not that there's anything wrong with AOL) and that the person
> > who coined it also noted that it looked like "A FOOL". An alternative
> > to AFOL is ALF (Adult LEGO Fan/Fanatic) but that reminds people of a
> > certain sit-com that didn't sit well with many folks.
>
> Well, I wasn't too far off . . . . :) I can also see the problems with
> the alternative (ALF), but what was wrong with the show? I kinda liked it.
> I guess the fact that I was around 10 at the time helped, but . . . . :)
I don't know what's wrong with the show either. Although I never watched it
enough to like or dislike it, what little I saw of it while channel surfing
kind of made me laugh, IIRC. But I think the people who dislike[d] it
really dislike[d] it in a big way. I remember a lot of people really
gagging when it got really popular and stores were selling Alf workout
posters and stuff like that.
BTW, I think the name of the TV show was also supposed to be an acronym --
for Alien Life Form or something like that?
--Todd
[crossposted to lugnet.off-topic.fun, with followups set there]
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