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Miniatures Adventure => Call of Cthulhu => Topic started by: Ramshackle_Curtis on April 05, 2009, 11:48:46 AM

Title: Elder Sign
Post by: Ramshackle_Curtis on April 05, 2009, 11:48:46 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWT07iRvI9M
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: JollyBob on April 05, 2009, 04:26:53 PM
I know I'm a little drunk on a Sunday afternoon, but that would be funny any time.  lol

Top find, Curtis. Always trust the Plumber - they know what's going on!
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: Etranger on April 06, 2009, 06:55:30 AM
Very well done. Great find!  :o
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: myincubliss on April 06, 2009, 09:49:04 AM
 :-*

Also deeply amusing is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYqZxiUN5HQ&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: Alxbates on April 09, 2009, 12:12:44 AM
 :o :o :o

Cthulhu Legos!

I love it! 

 lol lol lol
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: Bako on April 10, 2009, 12:19:34 AM
That's my kinda legos lol.
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: Herr Direktor on April 16, 2009, 03:39:46 PM
Loved Legos. Love Cthulhu. Now I want Cthulhu Legos lol.
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: Ramshackle_Curtis on April 16, 2009, 06:49:30 PM
The plural of Lego is Lego. You dont have "legos" you have "Lego" . As in "Im playing with some Lego"  >:(
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: Bako on April 16, 2009, 06:52:23 PM
 :P I know, it's just more fun to say legos when everyone else is too. Speaking of which, I haven't added to my own collection since the lead plague overtook my wallet.
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: answer_is_42 on April 19, 2009, 07:44:35 PM
The plural of Lego is Lego. You dont have "legos" you have "Lego" . As in "Im playing with some Lego"  >:(

Well said! 'Legos' often infuriates me...
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: twrchtrwyth on April 19, 2009, 08:22:16 PM
 lol lol lol
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: Argonor on July 02, 2009, 07:40:51 PM
Well, here in DK it's common to hear people say 'I ate a hotdogs', 'I'd like a drinks', 'The rebels hit a tanks' and stuff like that... the purple being the actual UK/US phrase they use, rest of the sentence being Danish... And Danish kids actually use the Danish word 'Legoer' (-er being plural) whereas the proper plural used to be 'Legoklodser' (Lego-blocks) - but Lego nowadays is more or less making modelling kits instead of the classical blocks where you had to use your imagination......

And the corn snack 'Bugles' is most often pronounced 'buggles' by ignorant Danes.... Just to include something COMPLETELY different....
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: Froggy the Great on July 02, 2009, 08:19:52 PM
The plural of Lego is Lego. You dont have "legos" you have "Lego" . As in "Im playing with some Lego"  >:(

Well said! 'Legos' often infuriates me...
YES!  YES!  I'm not the only one in the freekin' world that has it right!
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: Dolmot on July 02, 2009, 08:54:33 PM
Errr...no? The company, AFAIK, prefers "Lego bricks" (http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=fairplay), which is much like "Lego brand bricks". "Lego" is a brand name, but the items themselves are simply "bricks", "minifigs" etc. This policy obviously exists to protect the trademark. Otherwise they might lose it like happened to Hoover vacuum cleaners, nowadays "hoovers".

That does not make "Lego" a mass noun, or even a common noun in the first place. They don't want it, because then it wouldn't be a fully protected trademark or a proper name any more. The only Lego you can buy is the whole product line, which will cost a few billions. A single brick is not a "Lego" with a capital L. It's a brick. Two bricks can be called "two Lego bricks" but not "two Lego" or "two Legos".

That's the official company policy. However, what people end up doing in real life is simply a matter of common speech and evolution of language. If "a lego" (with a lower case l) becomes a common noun (like "to google" became a verb), its plural can be anything. The easiest solution is to call them "legos", just like multiple vacuum cleaners are "hoovers".

If you want to disagree, please provide a link. Uninformed fanboy ramblings don't count.

Fascinating things these elder signs, I say.
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: Argonor on July 02, 2009, 10:11:51 PM
Ah, yes - bricks, of course... it's hot, and my brain is melting away (besides, I'm not used to Lego in foreign languages, Lego being a very Danish thingy...  ;)  )
Title: Re: Elder Sign
Post by: Bako on July 03, 2009, 06:11:23 AM
YES!  YES!  I'm not the only one in the freekin' world that has it right!
I know how to say it as well. I just like to step on blokes' toes is all >:D

Quote from: Argonor
but Lego nowadays is more or less making modelling kits instead of the classical blocks where you had to use your imagination......

Agreed. Nowadays though if I want specific kinds of bricks I have to buy online or buy a whole fething 'kit'!