My whole life I was told that they were called “Linkin’ Logs” because they link up and this morning I learn this?
I can smell that picture, iykyk
Oh yeah 100%. I actually bought a tote of them a few years ago from a second hand store. I was thrilled because it’s a couple sets all thrown together. There’s a castle with a catapult and boulders, a couple frontier buildings, bits of another set
They absolutely smell the same as they did many decades ago when I had some as a kid
I have anosmia so I guess idk.
The kind of wood used, kiln dried sugar pine, smelled as sweet as the name sounds.
You’d open the box and it was like a blast of air freshener.
i’m so sorry. that is one of my greatest fears.
It’s funny, I never made the connection that it might be “linkin’”. School early on taught us about Lincoln and the fact that he was born in a log cabin in Illinois.
Those toys were fun, but it was difficult to build a theatre out of them.
well he didn’t make it to Illinois until his 20s. he was born in Kentucky and stormy time in Indiana before he started his career in politics in Illinois.
Dark.
Your own personal Eggcorn!
I had to stop myself from reading the examples, as a non native speaker I am sure my brain will remember the wrong forms 😬
Like Bone Apple Tea?
France is bacon!
completely off topic but you just solved a breakfast riddle that has been plaguing me for about a year: the parisian breakfast is cigarettes, coffee, and hatred. seattle: coffee, weed, and hatred. portland: coffee, weed, self-hatred. san francisco: coffee, weed, love. texas: coffee, self-love. my local: coffee, weed, bacon, hatred. (there’s a hammery just down the road, has the cutest piggies. every spring we’d take the niblings to go play with the new piglets in exchange for a little fence mending and a few baskets of the best blackberries you ever tasted)
The French have a really strange cuisine, haven’t they? :-)
LinkedIn Logs
The amount of shit LinkedIn users say could support a whole house.
I’m Canadian and even as a kid I always understood them to be named after the president. Then again old cartoons kinda taught alot of history, not always 100% accurate but they gave you enough to understand it.
I’m curious whether that was intentional. The wiki article doesn’t give any background on the choice of name, so I’d say it’s entirely possible that the name is a play on Lincoln/linkin’.
It’s also super cool that they were invented by one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s sons! One biographer claimed that Frank’s middle name at birth was actually Lincoln and his mother changed it, so there’s a possibility of that being an inspiration for the name as well.
Great post, thanks!
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This is from the 60s and it very clearly shows the name as “Lincoln Logs”
I was told as a child that it was because Abe Lincoln lived in a log house.
Right, what I was suggesting was that the fact that it makes sense both ways might have been the reason the inventor settled on that name, as opposed to ‘cabin logs’ or something else.
Hey, my pleasure and thanks for teaching me a few things as well!
Because you’re not from the US and you weren’t taught that Abraham Lincoln built a log cabin with his bare hands?
I’m not sure if that’s true, it’s just what the toy is named after.
Also the band Linkin Park, is named after a park called Lincoln Park, IIRC it’s in Chicago? Searched it and yes, it’s in Chicago — the band named for the park is from California. Though I suppose there may be other parks named for Lincoln, but Lincoln the president is from somewhere in the midwest.
Also, there are descendants of Abraham Lincoln alive today and they look just like him. He seemed like a bizarre type, like people don’t look like that, but I guess they do, or they can.
Hate to be that person, but the last known direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln died in 1985 without any children, and also didn’t really look that much like Abe.
Huh. Maybe the Internet lied to me. I saw pictures comparing him to a living descendant and didn’t do any research. Didn’t feel the need to research it.
If it was in the past 4 years it was probably just AI
I am very much from the US and was still taught the name was because they linked up. I’m kind of disappointed by the apparent actual reason, to be honest.
I had these as a kid. I was too young to get the connection to Abraham Lincoln until I was older and learned about him in school.
I had that exact box, and a larger set that were actually called Lincoln Logs. Some were in a paper tube & some in a metal tube. https://www.randrauction.com/auction-lot/1950s-lincoln-logs-4cf-in-the-original-containers_1414e61a3f
