Parent: We are moving to a tiny house many miles away. All of your stuff that remains here will be destroyed in a celebratory bonfire unless you ask us to send it to you.
Child: Please send particular items.
Parent: Specify items worth sending.
Child: Legos. Plus other (specifies other incidental, unimportant items.)
Parent: These items will be sent.
**time passes**
Parent: Have you received the items?
Child: I have received some of the items.
Parent: Those were all of the items you requested.
Child: Where are the Legos?
Parent: Oh, the Legos. You want the Legos?
Child: Did I not specify the Legos?
Parent: We were planning on keeping the Legos.
Child: Why?
Parent: For your grandchildren to play with. Your grandchildren will enjoy the Legos when they visit.
Child: The Legos are mine. I want the Legos.
Parent: Why?
Child: I just want them.
Parent: We just thought it would be better if we held onto the Legos.
Child: JUST SEND THE LEGOS!
Parent: Well, fine, if you really want them...
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In an oddly synchronous moment, we received the Legos in question not long before finding this.
Posted by BT at April 18, 2002 05:58 PMMan, I used to love my legos. They did, however, remain with my parents when I chose to strike outward into the big, bad world.
Unfortunately the legos were subsequently involved in a freak water incident, upon which they were endowed with an impressively pungent odour.
So I don't play with legos anymore.
Posted by: Garthmeister J on April 18, 2002 08:18 PMLoved this post! But it still freaks me out how you people call it "Legos". It is just Lego here in Wombat Land. I play with my lego. Hey, you, come over and play with my lego. That kind of thing.
Posted by: shauny on April 19, 2002 03:12 AMThese are the kinds of cultural walls we're trying to break down here, Shauny. I'm thinking of writing a book now, "Lego my Lego/s: An Australo-American Dialogue" in the hopes of one day resolving the deep differences between our peoples.
By the by, when I posted this, I realized how very Shauny-like this whole thing was, so I'm glad to hear you liked it.
Posted by: BT on April 19, 2002 11:11 AMFrom that link at the end:
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16. Where did the church go?
It's been permanently removed. A lot of fine people visited, enjoyed it and wrote decent comments in their forums. A lot of cretins also visited, found it to be too complex for their little minds and invited all their buddies to visit. That's more traffic than my site can handle.
17. Why would someone who didn't enjoy the site write about it in their forum and invite their buddies to visit?
This is apparently what people "with a life" do with their time.
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That last line is perfect.
You may be interested to learn that the whole lego v. legos question is being repeated in the monetary nomenclature of euro v. euros.