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   We want passionate users...

   

   Charles Jolley, Sep 6th, 2005 @ 5:02pm

   
   

   unless you don't spell our name right, of course.

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   LEGOs

   

   DGK12, Sep 6th, 2005 @ 5:04pm

   
   

   Wow now that's interesting. Lego my ego.
   
   That's one way to fix someones grammar. Although I don't believe the people in the TV marketing crew have caught on to this one.
   

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   No Subject Given

   

   Todd, Sep 6th, 2005 @ 5:14pm

   
   

   not only that, but they expect you to read the diatribe in under 10 seconds.
   
   you have to rapid tap the ESC for 10-15 seconds to avoid a redirect. in firefox at least.
   
   sheesh, could someone hand me a kleenex.
   i think katrina may have brought the flu to cleveland.
   

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   No Subject Given

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 6th, 2005 @ 5:27pm

   
   

   Of course, if you type in "kleenex" or "q-tips" you get a sadder redirect:
   "because we were branding idiots, we never defended our brand names and thus have little control (and shrinking market share) over the innovations we brought to market"....

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   rofl

   

   Hans, Sep 6th, 2005 @ 5:29pm

   
   

   excellent... and so you should to ashamed for spelling it wrongly!

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   No Subject Given

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 6th, 2005 @ 7:34pm

   
   

   legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos
   legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos
   legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos
   legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos
   legos legos legos legos legos legos legos legos
   
   Somebody in Denmark is having a heart attack now.

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   Re: No Subject Given

   

   Jamie, Sep 6th, 2005 @ 9:16pm

   
   

   I agree! If they don't put up those annoying notices once in a while, then they'll have a hell of a time protecting their brand name if it ever becomes a court issue.

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   More than one

   

   Gar, Sep 6th, 2005 @ 10:05pm

   
   

   When I'm talking about those bricks, I'm usually talking about many of them, not only one - hence, Legos .. more than one Lego. They should be happy for the publicity

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   Because they got burned

   

   dorpus, Sep 6th, 2005 @ 10:21pm

   
   

   Anyone remember the Polish artist who built the Lego Holocaust Camp, because he deceived Lego into believing that he was making "Lego art"? I can see Lego being more paranoid since then.
   

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    Legos

    

    Skip, Sep 6th, 2005 @ 10:24pm

    
    

    It's a part of America!! Fight the Lego Power!
    I was just thinking about how snooty they must be cause you can't just go out to wal-mart and buy a huge bucket of them like you could when I was a kid. You have to buy some dino-movie-maker-bio-astro-knights-amonga kit to get anything...

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    Re: rofl

    

    Anonymous Coward, Sep 6th, 2005 @ 11:22pm

    
    

    Got grammer?
    should be not should to hehe

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    legality

    

    Anonymous Coward, Sep 7th, 2005 @ 4:12am

    
    

    They're doing it to protect their copyright status. By law if you don't make an effort then you can lose it. Effort is the key word though, they don't really care if people say legos I bet but in the future they may need to tell a court that they've made efforts in protecting their copyrights.

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    Re: Legos

    

    eeyore, Sep 7th, 2005 @ 4:26am

    
    

    Yeah, but you can buy a giant tub of generic Lego-compatible blocks at Wal Mart for about what the giant tub of real LEGO used to cost. I use them to build mold boxes for pouring RTV molds because it's easy to build them to a convenient shape. And I don't have to pay like fifty bucks for a brand name. You'd think if they want to enforce a copyright they wouldn't have let anybody sell blocks that use the same interlocking pattern. Otherwise, what's the point?

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    Re: No Subject Given

    

    malhombre, Sep 7th, 2005 @ 5:10am

    
    

    Heard that back in the 80's, Xerox was sending out letters asking their customers to not to use their brand name in place of the word "copies", or as a verb:
    
    "I'm going to xerox this report"
    
    "I'm going to make some xeroxes(sp?) of this report"
    
    Apparently, they feared the X word would slip away and become public domain. I don't know what the law says, but I worked for a competing brand at the time, and we thought it really curious, seemed like the kind of brand recognition that most companies would give a left one for.

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    No Subject Given

    

    Anonymous Coward, Sep 7th, 2005 @ 8:04am

    
    

    Adobe did the same thing with Photoshop.
    
    "Correct: I just finished editing an image with Adobe(TM) Photoshop(TM).
    
    Incorrect: I just photoshopped an image.
    
    Incorrect: I just finished editing an image in Photoshop."

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    Re: Legos

    

    Anonymous Coward, Sep 7th, 2005 @ 8:52am

    
    

    You can go to a LEGO store and buy basic buckets of bricks. Just because WalMart doesn't stock it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
    And good for LEGO for protecting their name. It's only America that tries to call it Legos anyway. I think there's also legal precident where they can lose their trademark if it's used incorrectly too much.

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    Re: Legos

    

    eeyore, Sep 7th, 2005 @ 12:06pm

    
    

    Sure, for about sixty bucks. You don't see LEGO stores in the U.S. If you don't get it at Wal Mart you have to go to TOYS "R" A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY and get it there.

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    Lego? Who cares?

    

    Parker Mason, Sep 7th, 2005 @ 10:20pm

    
    

    Who the fuck cares about legos anymore, ever since they started coming out with these pre-fab blocks that have just about zero creativity-inducing quality?
    Buying new lego is an investment in brainwashing.
    Building stuff with the old school blocks will make you a genius.
    

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    They changed it after these articles...

    

    AJ, Oct 19th, 2005 @ 1:52pm

    
    

    Its been changed, instead it just says "you're probably looking for the lego Brick and Toy company, we are redirecting you to www.LEGO.com

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    Re: Lego? Who cares?

    

    Anynonamous, Mar 23rd, 2006 @ 4:25pm

    
    

    Your a silly moose. And by the way,geuss who cares about LEGO ? That's beep'n right. You guessed it, me.So who cares about you anyway? hmm?

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    Lego

    

    Shamus, Nov 26th, 2006 @ 9:35am

    
    

    Look at all the snows outside. Think I'll have me a nice cup of hot chocolates.

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    Dear lord

    

    Derek Bredensteiner (profile), Jan 5th, 2011 @ 10:34pm

    
    

    Five and a half years later and they're still showing a similar "error" message?

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    LEGO bricks

    

    Ben (profile), Jan 6th, 2011 @ 2:35am

    
    

    They're not "legos" (grief, that was hard to write!), they're "LEGO bricks" (bricks made by the LEGO company). Using the term "one lego, two legos" is like saying "one sheep, two sheeps" - just makes you sound ignorant.

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