# Instruction Books for Legos?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instruction-books-for-legos/362026
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 24, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instruction-books-for-legos/362026 "2006-06-24T23:43:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instruction-books-for-legos/362026/21 "2006-06-26T15:00:48Z")
Who the heck says “Legos”? It’s “Lego” – it’s a mass noun, like “gravel” or “sand”.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instruction-books-for-legos/362026/22 "2006-06-26T15:09:33Z")
> [@Colophon](#):
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> Who the heck says “Legos”? It’s “Lego” – it’s a mass noun, like “gravel” or “sand”.
Pretty much everyone in the US. We like our nouns regular.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instruction-books-for-legos/362026/23 "2006-06-26T16:24:23Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> I’ve always considered the Lego instructions to be superb examples of pictorial instructional design.
A childhood full of Lego has prepared me for an adulthood full of Ikea. 🙂
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### Author:  [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instruction-books-for-legos/362026/24 "2006-06-26T16:24:43Z")
The first lego set I got in 1978 ish had a booklet for towtruck that was pictured on the box.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instruction-books-for-legos/362026/25 "2006-06-26T16:37:01Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#):
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> One of the many things my ex-husband does that drives me insane: He will buy Lego kits, assemble them according to instructions, then present the finished product to our son as a gift. I try to explain to the boy that Lego is a building toy, and it can be lots of fun to make your own stuff with the bricks, but he doesn’t want to bust up Dad’s hard work.
I very much dislike your ex-husband.
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### Author:  [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instruction-books-for-legos/362026/26 "2006-06-26T16:54:56Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#):
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> He will buy Lego kits, assemble them according to instructions, then present the finished product to our son as a gift.
Did he also give filled-in crosswords and completed jigsaw puzzles?
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instruction-books-for-legos/362026/27 "2006-06-26T17:38:21Z")
> [@garygnu](#):
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> I very much dislike your ex-husband.
So do I! Let’s drive by his house and pelt him with Duplo blocks!
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### Author:  [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instruction-books-for-legos/362026/28 "2006-06-26T17:57:47Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#):
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> One of the many things my ex-husband does that drives me insane: He will buy Lego kits, assemble them according to instructions, then present the finished product to our son as a gift. I try to explain to the boy that Lego is a building toy, and it can be lots of fun to make your own stuff with the bricks, but he doesn’t want to bust up Dad’s hard work.
John Stossel (on 20/20, I think) did a report a few years ago in which he complained that Lego kits were too hard for adults to assemble; specifically, he said the average adult couldn’t assemble the model in time to have it ready to go under the Christmas tree. :rolleyes:
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