Fred's Fun Fact: Lego

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Thread show is on Fred's Fun Fact Fred's Fun.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Okay, guys, Jan you know and Ruvio probably knew, since
I've already been corrected about Lego. It's not legos, it's
just lego.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
But the word lego. Do you know what the word
comes from? No, something Swedish, Danish. It's formed from the
Danish word. I'm sure I'm not saying this right, leg
got g O d T, which means play well in English.
In Latin it means putting together. Wo See? Did you
ever know? I thought maybe it was an acronym for

(00:42):
something I didn't know. Lego without an ass it means
leg got play well in English or putting together, or
a high level of anxiety, which is what I have
every time I look at a gigantic package of bags
of legos. I told you growing up, I never had
like the kits. We had like just a big barrel
of that, right. Yeah. And then you know, as I've

(01:04):
grown up, I put the Chicago Skyline one together and
I'd never really like done one where you had to
follow the directions and you open it and it's just
like a it's a bag full of anxiety. It's just's
pieces everywhere lose.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Probably instructions, and a lot of the times now they
put like all the pieces like part one it will
be an all one bag, and then part two is
all in one bag.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
And he just it's very fulfilling. I will say that
it's very satisfying.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
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