# Legos are\_\_\_\_\_ **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 19, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819 "2002-07-19T15:27:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/41 "2002-07-21T02:17:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by acsenray \* > \*\*And what, exactly, is wrong with “my bad”? \*\* What’s right about it? That particular phrase drives me bananas. ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/42 "2002-07-21T02:17:30Z")
I say plaster, not band-aid. I say Lego, not legos. I say tissue, not kleenex. I don’t know anyone who says xerox instead of photocopy. I say rubbish bin, but then we don’t have “Dumpster” as a brand here. I say lemonade, not sprite or 7up. … just to add to your stats! ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/43 "2002-07-21T06:11:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blue Curls \* > **I say lemonade, not sprite or 7up.** The problem with this, of course, is that lemonade is an entirely different beverage in North America. The confusion between lemonade-as-a-generic-term-for-7UP-or-Sprite (common in the UK, and Australia at least, apparently) and lemonade-as-a-beverage-made-from-lemon-juice-sugar-and-water has caused at least one North American beer company to produce a commercial shandy made of beer and lemonade made with the latter recipe. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/44 "2002-07-21T06:29:12Z")
I don’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings, but the only people who call them “Legos” are communists and thieves. They’re “Lego pieces” or “Lego blocks” or “pieces of Lego” or “Lego parts” or, if you really know what you’re talking about, simply “Lego,” as in “look at all that Lego.” Using the word “Legos” demonstrates that you are a worthless philistine. But again, no offense intended! Thanks for listening. Remember ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/45 "2002-07-21T06:50:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blue Curls \* > \*\*I say plaster, not band-aid. > > I say Lego, not legos. > > I say tissue, not kleenex. > > I don’t know anyone who says xerox instead of photocopy. > > I say rubbish bin, but then we don’t have “Dumpster” as a brand here. > > I say lemonade, not sprite or 7up. > > … just to add to your stats! \*\* But do you drink your lemonade from polystyrene cups, or [STYROFOAM[sup]TM[/sup]](http://www.dow.com/craft/about/cup.htm) ones? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/46 "2002-07-21T07:41:55Z")
In keeping with **tracers** fine examples- You buy a box of “Pop-Tarts”. You open the bag and heat one of the two. You prepare to eat it. What are you holding? Well, a “Pop-Tart”, right? Uh-uh, says Kellog. You are holding one “Pop-Tarts”. The name of the product is “Pop-Tarts”, and the serving size is one. So please, please don’t refer to a “Pop-Tarts” as a “Pop-Tart” in the singular in day to day speech. That would make the corporate baby Jesus cry. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![abby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@abby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abby)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/47 "2002-07-21T11:40:38Z")
Look. It’s really very simple. The Lego company called their stuff Lego, and they know how to use the word correctly, being their word, and their product, and all. So, “Lego”, like “sheep” and “fish” can apply to one or many items. If you really feel the need to add an “s” to every phrase when used in the plural sense, then add it to the second word (“look at all them there lego brickS!”). It really shits me when ppl say “legos”, cos it’s just plain _wrong_ (er, as in, incorrect, of course). As you were. abby ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/48 "2002-07-21T15:59:10Z")
As citizen of the United States I have to protest these unwarranted restrictions on my constitutionally protected ability and God given right to add an “s” where I see fit, and will have to take a principled stand in defense of pluralism against the creeping socialist mind control of the clever Danes using LEGO(s)as the beachhead for world domination. It much more than just “Play in the LEGO sense”, it’s indoctrination into the false world of smug LEGO complacency. It is evident that the Danes, noted as a congenitally depressive and gloomy lot, (see [Kierkegaard](http://www.erraticimpact.com/~19thcentury/html/kierkegaard.htm)) always on the edge of ending it all because their dike broke, their tulips didn’t bloom or their neighbor is having his way with their wife, have constructed the LEGO empire as a bulwark against the hazards of an uncertain world. LEGO represents a happy island of socialist stability where the happy little socialist LEGO societies go about their smiling way. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/49 "2002-07-23T00:35:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darwin’s Finch \* > \*\*But do you drink your lemonade from polystyrene cups, or [STYROFOAM[sup]TM[/sup]](http://www.dow.com/craft/about/cup.htm) ones? 😉 \*\* From the above link: “STYROFOAM and the color Blue are trademarks of The Dow Chemical Company” Good gravy! _THEY’VE TRADEMARKED THE COLOR BLUE?!?!_ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![JS\_Princeton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@JS\_Princeton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JS_Princeton)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/50 "2002-07-23T01:55:22Z")
> [@](#): > > …always on the edge of ending it all because their dike broke, their tulips didn’t bloom… **astro** , these ranting references seem to be about the _Dutch_, not the _Danes_. Please, try to get your geopolitical stereotypes straight! And now… a totally unrelated but puzzling hijack-thought I had when in perusing this thread: Does anybody know if Kellogg’s® Eggo® waffels has had to ante-up for their blantant copyright infringement of the “Leggo my Eggo”[sup]TM[/sup] variety? That extra “g” might be their saving grace, but if the Lego® company thinks they can quibble over adding the letter “s”… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/51 "2002-07-23T23:58:42Z")
[William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Junior](http://www.theonion.com/archive/archive_nib09.html) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/52 "2002-07-24T00:49:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JS Princeton \* > \*\* > > **astro** , these ranting references seem to be about the _Dutch_, not the _Danes_. Please, try to get your geopolitical stereotypes straight! How embarrasing! :o I’ve mixed and matched my Dutchmen and Danes. Must make crib sheet from [www.cia.gov](http://www.cia.gov) Denmark - Kingdom of Denmark Gvt- constitutional monarchy GDP: purchasing power parity - $136.2 billion (2000 est.) Pop- 5,352,815 (July 2001 est.) Background: Once the seat of Viking raiders and later a major north European power, Denmark has evolved into a modern, prosperous nation that is participating in the political and economic integration of Europe. So far, however, the country has opted out of some aspects of the European Union’s Maastricht Treaty, including the economic and monetary system (EMU) and issues concerning certain internal affairs. Holland - Kingdom of the Netherlands Gvt -constitutional monarchy GDP: purchasing power parity - $388.4 billion (2000 est.) Pop- 15,981,472 (July 2001 est.) Background: The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I but suffered a brutal invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized nation, the Netherlands is also a large exporter of agricultural products. The country was a founding member of NATO and the EC, and participated in the introduction of the euro in 1999. ---
**Author:** ![epeepunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f19dbf/32.png) [@epeepunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epeepunk)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/53 "2002-07-24T18:08:37Z")
Acccckkkk! I can’t believe what I started with a little information. :smack: When I wrote a write-up for Everything that was about Lego blocks, I was taken to task for using the Legos (by the person who had written about the proper form of the plural) so I was already sensitized. I’m glad I didn’t mention about how Lego blocks are like atoms. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819/54 "2002-07-24T20:01:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > **Denmark - Kingdom of Denmark > Gvt- constitutional monarchy > GDP: purchasing power parity - $136.2 billion (2000 est.)** Purchasing power _parity_ ?! > [@](#): > > **So far, however, the country [Denmark] has opted out of some aspects of the European Union’s Maastricht Treaty, including the economic and monetary system (EMU)** So that means they’re not adopting the Euro as their unity of currency. In which case, they’re using what, the Danish Pastry? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legos-are_____/119819.md?page=2)