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50th anniversary of the Lego brick today!

What great memories....

Used to love that stuff.

Hated stepping on it.

silicone skyline wrote:50th anniversary of the Lego brick today!

What great memories....

Used to love that stuff.

Hated stepping on it.

One of the best toys a kid can have...make them use their imagination. Having a 6 yo godson I still get to play and still love the stuff...and if Lego are reading this he much prefers the basic bricks etc to the themed kits 'cos he can make different stuff with it'

Looking forward to moving up to Mecano soon as well.

Regards
JAS

Ahh, wondered why goggle was in lego bricks today, that would explain it!

the google logo intrigued me too- cheers for info

The age old debate...is it pronounced Leg-o, or ley-go? I'm for the latter

MW wrote:The age old debate...is it pronounced Leg-o, or ley-go? I'm for the latter

the 2nd one.

1st one

Regards
JAS

1st one.
Love Lego, still got all my blocks somewhere in a cupboard in spare room and a Easy Build set (like Meccano but Aussie made)

2nd one.

MW wrote:The age old debate...is it pronounced Leg-o, or ley-go? I'm for the latter

Definitely ley-go.

One drunk night on campus, we had a furious argument about this pronounciation.

(Yep, we had nothing better to do.)

So we fired off an email to Lego head office seeking clarification.

They emailed back to confirm it was Ley-go.

The Leg-o majority still refuse to concede.

Philistines.

MW wrote:The age old debate...is it pronounced Leg-o, or ley-go? I'm for the latter

I always assumed it was one of those SA peculiarities that we go for the latter. Like we say Bone-o rather than Bonn-o.
I'm pretty sure we're wrong on both fronts but I'm happy to maintain our recalcitrance. Is that a word?

zipzap wrote:

MW wrote:The age old debate...is it pronounced Leg-o, or ley-go? I'm for the latter

I always assumed it was one of those SA peculiarities that we go for the latter. Like we say Bone-o rather than Bonn-o.
I'm pretty sure we're wrong on both fronts but I'm happy to maintain our recalcitrance. Is that a word?

Bah. We Adelaidians are the only Aussies who can pronounce words like darnsing (sic) and charnses (sic) correctly.

And recalcitrance is indeed a word - just ask Paul Keating

PS - surprised you haven't made an appearance on the massive Aussie '80s lyrics quiz yet zipper...

I used to be addicted to Lego but now I've managed to block it out.

regards,

REB

Magpiespower wrote:

MW wrote:The age old debate...is it pronounced Leg-o, or ley-go? I'm for the latter

Definitely ley-go.

One drunk night on campus, we had a furious argument about this pronounciation.

(Yep, we had nothing better to do.)

So we fired off an email to Lego head office seeking clarification.

They emailed back to confirm it was Ley-go.

The Leg-o majority still refuse to concede.

Philistines.

Some people can't seem to Leggo.

regards,

REB

Last one I promise.

When I was a kid I swallowed one of those blocks once........................5hit a brick!

regards,

REB

Honestly mate,those jokes just dont stack up.

50% of my childhood fights with my older brother started over lego (the other 50% was backyard tennis/cricket/footy), yet I still love the stuff.

No doubt someone will google it, there is a set of animated bible stories created using lego on the net somewhere, very clever.

I want to know why they don't have the Lego exhibitions anymore like they used to.. Cant remember whether they were at Myer or Johnnies.... they were excellent...

Rik E Boy wrote:Some people can't seem to Leggo.

regards,

REB

Or build a bridge

Falcon Chick wrote:I want to know why they don't have the Lego exhibitions anymore like they used to.. Cant remember whether they were at Myer or Johnnies.... they were excellent...

Agreed. They used to amaze me when I was young