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RE: New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
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lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au
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Thu, 3 Aug 2000 22:56:32 GMT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deidre Rushton Brumby [mailto:drb@tasmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 8:02 PM
> To: lugnet.football@lugnet.com; lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: New newsgroup lugnet.football for Football/Soccer
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> In lugnet.football, Todd Lehman writes:
> > OK, hmm, so, OK, can we back up a bit? So, what you're • saying (taking both
> > of your posts into account) is that:
> >
> > 1. The official name of the LEGO product line in Australia • is "LEGO Football"
> > and not "LEGO Soccer," and
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> > 2. Australians call the sport "Soccer" and use the word • "Football" for
> > something else, possibly Rugby.
>
> Yup, it's soccer. Football possibly refers to Rugby in some
> parts of Aus,
> but generally football refers to AFL which is a different
> game altogether.
Yep, Aerial ping-pong, I believe it's called by fans of cross-country
wrestling :)
[I didn't want to seem to descriminate against fans of one form of football
or another.]
> > Is that correct? In other words, did LEGO name the product • line incorrectly
> > w.r.t. Australian conventions when referring to the sport?
>
> Yes, but I don't think Lego Australia think for themselves in
> matters such
> as this, they are just following what Lego out of Europe
> tells them and
> hence follow the European naming convention. They don't even correct
> references to seasons in the catalogs! Dinosaur Island is
> coming "after
> summer" i.e. now and it is most definitely winter in this part of the
> world!
Ah yes....But it IS after summer, isn't it? ;-)
>
> > Does anyone know if -- anywhere in the world -- the official • LEGO product line
> > for this is called "LEGO Futbol"?
> >
> > p.s. The 2000 LEGO Football/Soccer sets rock!!!
>
> I think they're great too and I'm not even much of a sports fan :)
I believe, but am not certain, that they go by this name in Germany...I've
got a small promo fro them, and I think it was something like FutBol. I
couldn't find it last night while trying to sort out some catalogues, but I
was only using 2 folders, and I'm sure it's in one of my other 6 or so
catalogue/promo folders.
I'll get it scanned when I find it.
> Deidre
> drb@tasmail.com
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