Ascent Stage: You may bleep when ready

etc., recall the word
resoldered here
in a pane of sand.
— R. Kenney

You may bleep when ready

LEGO is making products so amazing they have to censor how much their customers rave about them.

Holy Shit

From a site-based e-mail to my wife that began “Holy shit!” and ended with some half-hearted rationale that we needed to buy this for our son for Christmas. (At least I'm self-consciously transparent, you know?)

Tags: censor, lego, e-mail, starwars

Posted on September 25, 2007 to the category called I Like .

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