One sheep.

Two sheep.

I have a box of Lego.

One cow.

Two cows.

I have a box of blocks.

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I'm trying to care... really... but in my entire life I have never encountered anyone who knew about or recognized this trivial distinction. As you will see, almost everyone on this thread has referred to more than one Lego as Legos. Yes, we know now it is incorrect, and we'll have to e-mail school teachers across the country to correct this and put an end to it once and for all, but I think we'll need a generation or two before the slang passes out of existence. Perhaps my grandchildren will read old writing from these days and smirk at our ignorance.

I also may have decided to attempt to modify my behavior had you not taken the approach of correcting me the way you did. Had you posted something, to nobody in particular, a "Here's an interesting bit of trivia..." and pointed it out I may have thought "Oh, I've been wrong about this my whole life. Everyone I've ever known has been wrong about this my whole life. I don't like being wrong, so I'll try to correct it". But now I feel a strange compulsion to call them Legos forever. It will make me feel rebellious... maybe I'll go buy a motorcycle too.

Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die

Born to be wild
Born to be wild

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I guess it's about where you live (see below).

I did (see below).

Post 83 was addressed to no-one in particular.

Post 86 originally only echoed your "OK, seriously?" bit (for fun) and added the (hopefully obviously not-too-serious) "Grrr".

The "p.s" was added to Post 86 only after post 88 was made - that was perhaps unclear and I apologise for that. It did make the post look more "against" you in particular.

No offence was intended, this just happnes to be something that grates on my nerves. Wikipedia does mention that it's something those wacky Americans do (is the Event Horizon in the U.S.?) - maybe I should just leave you all alone.

(By the way, I care how "Lego" is used and also ride a bike [Kawasaki Z750S] - so I'm not sure your plan is all that rebellious.)

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I don't care if someone says Lego™®© or Legos.

I don't work for the company.

Some folks around here call any kind of soda a coke.

In a restaurant:
It's insanity I tell you.

That is insane, and it would annoy me.

I'd be nuts enough to try to tell people, too. ("Takes one to know one".)


Heck, I think there are people here who care where apostrophes go, too.

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This is true...

To be perfectly honest, I understand how you feel, but for perhaps an entirely different reason. I dislike when people pronounce asterisk as asterick or asterix. The reason I dislike it is because I lived in central Wisconsin for a time and everyone there pronounced it asterick. Everyone. Even my college instructors. It drove me nuts. Why? I have no idea.

However, I don't recall ever correcting anyone. I probably should have called the governor or something... it's a real problem up there.

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Yeah well, no one axed you how you fett 'bout it.

I'll xerox a poster about it.

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We need several copies- so can you times it by ten?

I gots to get one!

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I dont care about lego I used to throw my kid brothers lego and legos in the fire when ever I found one laid around!! as they hurt when you stand on the horrid things with bare feet. I have a Kawasaki Z1000 in the garage at the moment but its getting sold as I dislike it, it doesnt handle round bends, looks ok, but I love my Honda Fireblade!!

Friedphoton, thats one of my favourite songs for when I am getting the bike out you fiend !!

One of my favourite toys is Action man, as he used to bring Sindy army gear to wear and take her out in the tank, and they used to drive over the Barbis and Kens that the powderpuff girls were playing with down the street! It was great as they used to howl and run away, so i could then pull the heads of the barbies as they were dead!!!

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I think that you and my sister must be related somehow. She flat-out refused to play with Barbi and insisted upon GI Joe.

Someone mentioned making parachutes for GI Joe earlier in the thread didn't they? My friend and I used to make 'chutes from garbage bags and climb trees to toss them out.

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Oh I played with Barbi but only if she was to be a casulty with missing limbs, I didnt like the skinny faces. My other two sisters are also a bit like me they wanted the little bigmen( the special forces small men dolls) and the Bionic man, we also liked Streach Armstrong. He came in handy if the big lads came and tried to nick our toys, we would streach him out and swing him around and aim for their heads.Whoomph, they rarely came back for more; he hurt more when he was wet!! my brother found out how much when he pulled the hand of my action man! Your sister would have had a brill time if she had lived near us, did she build camps in the trees and swings? Why play with a pink fluffy skinny blond doll that you know you wont ever look like, when you can have mad adventure with a good looking guy that you might find for real one day? Also all the extras were more interesting like the guns, outfits, jeeps,helicopter,etc even the parachute which my brother had, but wouldnt let us use so we nicked my mutti's silk nighty out of the ironing pile and made some for our action men! They worked if you climbed a giant tree and got the height but not too good out of the bedroom windows in a two storey house. The trees were handy for when my mam found the remains of her nighty!!

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