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Re: ALF / AFOL
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 17 May 1999 23:07:17 GMT
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Hi!
Todd Lehman wrote:
> 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.
Oh, yuck. That's disgusting. I think it was based on one recurring
joke--cat eating. The fact that the
cat was named "Lucky" only added to the joke.
> BTW, I think the name of the TV show was also supposed to be an acronym --
> for Alien Life Form or something like that?
That was the acronym, yes...I used to do a great
ALF voice impression, annoying as Hades heck.
By the way, the actor who played Willy Tanner
on ALF is in the new "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
movie with Calista Flockheart--and it's a pretty bad
movie, with occasional bright moments. Willy is
OK, though.
LFB.
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