What Did I Find at My Office Door That Made My Day?

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A user returned to their office to find a large box of Legos from a friend named tribdog, which brightened their day. The discussion quickly shifted to the playful debate over the correct pluralization of "Lego," with participants sharing their fond memories of playing with Legos as children. Humor ensued as they compared language differences between American and British English, including terms like "math" versus "maths." Participants also expressed concern about tribdog's absence from the forum, speculating on his well-being. Overall, the thread highlighted the joy of receiving thoughtful gifts and the camaraderie among forum members.
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So, I finally returned to my office today, and sitting in front of the door is a BIG box. As I shove it into my office while getting my jacket off, I see it has tribdog's return address on it. He got me a BIG box of Legos for Christmas! :biggrin: :approve: Now you all don't have to listen to me complain nobody buys me Legos anymore. :biggrin:

Thanks tribdog! :!) (This might even make me stop laughing about those fake fingernails you attached to yourself while I was away...hmm...nah...:smile:)
 
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YAY! What a COOL gift! That tribdog... I don't care WHAT his mom says about him... he's OK! :biggrin:
 
You should call him and thank him :wink: :smile:
 
The_Professional said:
You should call him and thank him :wink: :smile:

Call him? Now, when would either of us be offline long enough to get a phone call through? LOL! I'm quite certain this is the best place to thank him and know he'll see it. :biggrin:
 
That's so sweet! :approve: Just don't let trib near them with anything hot. :wink:
 
You can build a FORT!

Kewl!
 
Do you guys all know each other in person?
 
Moonbear said:
He got me a BIG box of Legos for Christmas! :biggrin:

:rolleyes: Not content with 'math', you now want to make the plural of Lego 'Legos'? Give me strength, dear Lord, to get thru this...

On a lighter note, you might want to see that we have a whole county made out of Lego(s) e.g. whole malls made of the stuff:
http://www.lego.com/legoland/windsor/parkmap/knightskingdom.asp?locale=2057
Take the virtual tour. You'll probably need smelling salts though, if your reaction to a measly box is anything to go by. Here in England we are also proudly working on genetically engineered modular plastic folk. Nothing to do with Legoland, we're just short of bus drivers in London at present.
 
What are you going to make with your lego(s), legos, legoes, legose, leghose, legohs, leggoes, or what ever they are, :biggrin:, Moonbear? I suggest that you reconstruct the human genome.

Just don't let Tribdog get anywhere near it!
 
  • #10
Boy, that tribdog sounds like such a sweetheart. I'll bet the dummy didn't remember to put the card inside the box though did he?
 
  • #11
Dude! I loved legos as a kid! I stopped playing with them when I was like 13 though because peolpe I knew though of them as "kiddy" toys. Man, I miss playing "lego wars" with my friends... We built medieval armies and death machines! Mwhahaha! Good times.
 
  • #12
Weird.

You lot say 'legos', but you also say 'math'.
We say 'lego', but 'maths'.

Stand by for more shocking revelations...
 
  • #13
brewnog said:
Weird.

You lot say 'legos', but you also say 'math'.
We say 'lego', but 'maths'.

Stand by for more shocking revelations...

LOL! If you have just one lonely little block, you can call it a lego. And the brand is Lego, but if you have a whole box of them, they are legos. :biggrin: I've never understood why you say maths. Do you also go to Englishes and Histories classes? We should put together an English to English dictionary for those who get confused around here.
 
  • #14
brewnog said:
Weird.

You lot say 'legos', but you also say 'math'.
We say 'lego', but 'maths'.

Stand by for more shocking revelations...

Is there an echo on this thread?
 
  • #15
Entropy said:
Dude! I loved legos as a kid! I stopped playing with them when I was like 13 though because peolpe I knew though of them as "kiddy" toys. Man, I miss playing "lego wars" with my friends... We built medieval armies and death machines! Mwhahaha! Good times.

Never let something as silly as growing up get in the way of playing with toys! Legos are something you never get too old to play with!
 
  • #16
tribdog said:
Boy, that tribdog sounds like such a sweetheart. I'll bet the dummy didn't remember to put the card inside the box though did he?

LOL! Nope, he forgot to include the card. :smile:
 
  • #17
Moonbear said:
LOL! If you have just one lonely little block, you can call it a lego. And the brand is Lego, but if you have a whole box of them, they are legos. :biggrin: I've never understood why you say maths. Do you also go to Englishes and Histories classes? We should put together an English to English dictionary for those who get confused around here.

Actually, if you have one individual block, you have a Lego brick, and if you have many, you have Lego bricks. Still not Legos. :biggrin:
Incidentally, if you have a single lonely sheep, you have a sheep, but if you have a whole flock of them, you have...? :P
As for maths; Surely a contaction for mathematics? With proper apostrophe use, maths should probably be spelled math's (as a contractive, rather than a posessive).

P.S. I love Lego. I had more of the little spacemen and space ships than I can count! Then all the sets got mixed up in one box, and it became impossible to make any of the original models as I couldn't find any of the bits.
 
  • #18
Moonbear said:
If you have just one lonely little block, you can call it a lego.

When did anyone have just one Lego block? That would be ridiculous!

Moonbear said:
I've never understood why you say maths. Do you also go to Englishes and Histories classes? We should put together an English to English dictionary for those who get confused around here.

Nope, we definitely go to English lessons (and they're lessons, not classes). You mean to say you get taught English and not American? I'm shocked! A dictionary would be good though, as long as you guys are treated as the foreign lot!
 
  • #19
Moonbear said:
LOL! If you have just one lonely little block, you can call it a lego. And the brand is Lego, but if you have a whole box of them, they are legos. :biggrin: I've never understood why you say maths. Do you also go to Englishes and Histories classes? We should put together an English to English dictionary for those who get confused around here.
Yeah, but just wait until you hear the English word for zucchini.
 
  • #20
Courgette? Whats wrong with courgette? :P
Your word for aubegine is worse :wink:
 
  • #21
matthyaouw said:
Courgette? Whats wrong with courgette? :P
Your word for aubegine is worse :wink:
Do you mean aubergine?

The American word is much more descriptive. You can guess what it looks like just from the name.
 
  • #22
BobG said:
Do you mean aubergine?

The American word is much more descriptive. You can guess what it looks like just from the name.
Great picture BobG, I'm guessing that's you?
 
  • #23
BobG said:
Do you mean aubergine?

The American word is much more descriptive. You can guess what it looks like just from the name.

What's an aubergine?

And you call them Lego bricks? That's far too many words for such a tiny thing, don't you think? This from a bunch of people that "Hoover" their houses. At least I haven't turned any brand names into verbs yet...at least not that I'm aware of. :smile:
 
  • #24
AFIK, aubergine is a color. (Something along the lines of an eggplant color)
 
  • #25
Sigh :rolleyes:

Aubergine is an eggplant.
 
  • #26
LOL! Tsu, I think we're better off with our Spanish than our English...at least that silly British English. :smile:
 
  • #27
BobG said:
Sigh :rolleyes:

Aubergine is an eggplant.
Well, why didn't you just SAY eggplant? An eggplant is an eggplant! Aubergine is a color in the Designer Barbie Crayon Box! :smile: :smile: :smile:
 
  • #28
I don't call them Lego bricks, I call it Lego.

Your chickens must be pretty brave to lay eggs which resemble aubergines!

And I don't Hoover my house, I Dyson it! Besides, I bet you've listened to a tannoy at some point, perhaps whilst putting sellotape on your jeep!
 
  • #29
brewnog said:
I don't call them Lego bricks, I call it Lego.

Your chickens must be pretty brave to lay eggs which resemble aubergines!

And I don't Hoover my house, I Dyson it! Besides, I bet you've listened to a tannoy at some point, perhaps whilst putting sellotape on your jeep!

Is sellotape anything like spellotape? I've been reading Harry Potter books lately. :wink:

Dyson, isn't that a brand of chicken? Oh, no, that's Tyson. Nevermind.

You call it Lego? You do know you can get more than one, right? The set tribdog sent me has 1000 Legos in it, hardly just one Lego! Eggplant is egg-shaped. Perhaps more the size of an ostrich egg than a chicken egg though. I haven't a clue what a tannoy is, but we do have Jeeps! :approve: Though, I've never owned one, so can't put anything on my Jeep.

I love how the same language can be completely different. Do Australians have words that differ from those used in the UK?
 
  • #30
Moonbear said:
Do Australians have words that differ from those used in the UK?

Yes they do! I only have to think about a spunk in thongs and I'm amused!
 
  • #31
Moonbear said:
At least I haven't turned any brand names into verbs yet...at least not that I'm aware of. :smile:

You've never Scotch-taped stuff or Xeroxed documents or Tefloned your pipe thread fittings ? :eek:

You don't know what you're missing ! :rolleyes: Ask brewnog. He's Sellotaped tonnes of stuff.

And it's 'maths' because it's a contraction of 'mathematics' that would strictly have to be written 'math's'.
 
  • #32
Legos! Love those!
 
  • #33
Gokul43201 said:
You've never Scotch-taped stuff or Xeroxed documents or Tefloned your pipe thread fittings ? :eek:

:rolleyes: Okay, I've Xeroxed stuff, but only because people started looking at me funny when I said I was going to photocopy it, or worse, if I said I needed dittoes! I just tape stuff, though I used to ask for Scotch tape by brand to mean a type (the clear plastic kind as opposed to masking tape). I've never Tefloned anything. Never heard anyone say it that way either. I tape the pipe fittings, and it happens to be Teflon tape.
 
  • #34
Moonbear, you ever blu-tacked?
Gokul, I've sellotaped more stuff than you would believe!

I just remembered that you guys think a fanny is a bum... AHHAHAHAAA! Oh so mature...
 
  • #35
brewnog said:
Moonbear, you ever blu-tacked?

:rolleyes: Not that I know of.

Gokul, I've sellotaped more stuff than you would believe!

Okay, from the name, I was guessing you mean celophane tape, same as what I meant by Scotch tape, but now I'm wondering if sellotape is more like duct tape?
 
  • #36
BobG said:
Do you mean aubergine?

The American word is much more descriptive. You can guess what it looks like just from the name.

Aubergine: http://home2.pi.be/eb349940/images/vers/aubergines.jpg
Egg: http://www.racetothetop.org/images/egg.jpg

You guys must have some perculiar shaped chickens over there
 
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  • #37
Yeah sellotape is like cellophane tape, gaffer tape is more like duct tape. I've used both to excess, it depends on the job which needs doing!

But you don't have blu-tak? You're missing out!
 
  • #38
Moonbear said:
:rolleyes: Not that I know of.

Don't worry Moonbear, you're not missing out on anything...unless you've never seen chewing gum before. :smile:
 
  • #39
Hmmmm blu-tak doesn't taste nearly as nice as chewing gum...
 
  • #40
brewnog said:
Hmmmm blu-tak doesn't taste nearly as nice as chewing gum...

Well, that's because it's tasteless. :biggrin:

The Wrigley Formula: Sprinkle sugar on some blu-tack, heat up, press and cut into shape, and you will have made your own chewing gum.
 
  • #41
Legos? Legos! Yay! Where where?!?
Ok I'll be quiet because my dad actually got me some for Christmas when word got out my roommate and I bought a few for our dorm room. But seeing as I'm older he got one of those Lego robot sets so the cat keeps chasing after my new little robots...
 
  • #42
The Lego Mindstorms are really neat.
 
  • #43
My first Lego creation! (Don't laugh too hard. :-p)

From the front:
http://img70.exs.cx/img70/5319/legofront2lb.jpg

From the back (should I change the stairs to red? I don't have any pink Legos, so red would be the only color more "tongue-like" or would that be too obvious?):
http://img70.exs.cx/img70/5998/legoback1td.jpg

And a side view:
http://img62.exs.cx/img62/7397/legoside3gf.jpg

(P.S. Has anyone seen tribdog lately? That short note about forgetting the card is the last I've seen or heard from him in a few days. It's not like him to be so quiet.)
 
  • #44
Let's hope his neighbor didn't find out what happened to her nail kit. She seemed a bit ill tempered.

He probably lost his internet connection/computer access. Monique was offline for a week recently due to trouble with her internet provider. Or he could have had an accident building that frozen brussel sprout trebuchet. :bugeye:

Nice creation. :approve:
 
  • #45
Evo said:
Let's hope his neighbor didn't find out what happened to her nail kit. She seemed a bit ill tempered.

Oh dear! At least he had the nail kit, so she couldn't gouge his eyes out with fake fingernails. :bugeye:

He probably lost his internet connection/computer access. Monique was offline for a week recently due to trouble with her internet provider. Or he could have had an accident building that frozen brussel sprout trebuchet. :bugeye:

It's the brussel sprout trebuchet type accident I'm more worried about with him. But, yeah, it could be problems with his computer or internet access. It sounds like he had been having some trouble with one or both. If it was just one day, I'd have thought he just had to run off to Flagstaff for his paycheck again (at least it's a company truck he gets to drive there), but it's been a couple days, and he was pretty quiet even the days he was here.

Nice creation. :approve:

Thanks. :biggrin: I suspect the difference between adults playing with Legos and children playing with Legos is that adults actually put thought into the colors instead of just using any color that's the right shape for what they are trying to accomplish. I hadn't expected to find gray and light blue Legos in the box. There's also a light green color in there. I remember Legos just being blue, green, red, yellow, orange, black and white. Now there are shades of colors too. Very cool! :approve:
 
  • #46
Green Lego? Nope, not in my day. The only green lego was the 'grass' and the trees, and I don't think I've ever seen orange Lego!

Perhaps Moonbear's childhood days weren't as long ago as she'd like us to believe?
 
  • #47
brewnog said:
Green Lego? Nope, not in my day. The only green lego was the 'grass' and the trees, and I don't think I've ever seen orange Lego!

Perhaps Moonbear's childhood days weren't as long ago as she'd like us to believe?

I'm pretty sure there were green Legos when I was a kid. I'm less certain about orange, but there's orange in this set, and it didn't seem completely odd to me. But, since I never owned my own Legos until this week, I could be remembering wrong. But, no, I guess my childhood days weren't that long ago, since I'm still struggling to hang onto a few remnants of them. I don't plan on ever getting old despite whatever my birth certificate might say! :biggrin:
 
  • #48
For what it's worth I was still young enough to be classified as just a kid playing with Legos five years ago and there were no real green blocks. Just green "grass" to build on, trees, flower stems, and the occasional flat piece.
 
  • #49
Andromeda321 said:
For what it's worth I was still young enough to be classified as just a kid playing with Legos five years ago and there were no real green blocks. Just green "grass" to build on, trees, flower stems, and the occasional flat piece.

Maybe that's all I remember being green. I didn't get any "grass" to build on and kept wanting it. This set comes with instructions for building a dinosaur looking critter, so maybe that's why it has green pieces. The light green and light blue are definitely something new!
 
  • #50
Andromeda321 said:
Legos? Legos! Yay! Where where?!?
Ok I'll be quiet because my dad actually got me some for Christmas when word got out my roommate and I bought a few for our dorm room. But seeing as I'm older he got one of those Lego robot sets so the cat keeps chasing after my new little robots...
Lucky Andromeda! I always wanted a Lego Mindstorm kit!
When I take my "mobile robots" class next semester I will build some little robot mice for my cat to chase. :biggrin:
 

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