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leggos (and no, I have no idea why the plural adds another "g", it just does)

Actually, it doesn't. LEGO is an adjective, there are no "legos" or "leggos", they're LEGO bricks:

Dear Parents and Children
        The word LEGO(R) is a brand name and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!

                Susan Williams
                Consumer Services (Susan's name is a pseudonym for the service dptmt.)

http://www.multicon.de/fun/legofaq.html#a7

Actually, the slogan was (and is) "L'eggo my Eggo", with the commercial always featuring two people fighting over a single Eggo.

But even if it had been as you suggested, that would be a situation where the company encourages the pluralization of their brand name. Lego, on the other hand, explicitly asks people not to do this.

You know you're bored at work when you're debating on Slashdot about the plural form of "Lego". Yikes.

Dear Parents and Children
The word LEGO(R) is a brand name and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!

Susan Williams
Consumer Services (Susan's name is a pseudonym for the service dptmt.)

The plural of "Lego" is, and has always been, "Lego"

WRONG. Jackass.

Here is the Lego FAQ with a section about LEGO plural.

There have also been several previous discussions on Slashdot about this subject.

Personally I don't care about the "LEGO" versus "lego" trade-mark business. The problem is more about the difference between the American English and British English languages. To an English person, the word "LEGOS" looks and sounds completely wrong and stupid. And even if it could be pluralised it should probably be "legoes" to maintain the "oh" sound at the end.

Lego is the media used to make things, there is no such thing as "a lego", it is like making electronic devices from "silicons" instead of "silicon chips" or a house out of "concretes" instead of "concrete blocks".

Here is the Lego FAQ with a section about LEGO plural.

There have also been several previous discussions on Slashdot about this subject.

Personally I don't care about the "LEGO" versus "lego" trade-mark business. The problem is more about the difference between the American English and British English languages. To an English person, the word "LEGOS" looks and sounds completely wrong and stupid. And even if it could be pluralised it should probably be "legoes" to maintain the "oh" sound at the end.

Lego is the media used to make things, there is no such thing as "a lego", it is like making electronic devices from "silicons" instead of "silicon chips" or a house out of "concretes" instead of "concrete blocks".

If overclocking was that simple, then there wouldn't be websites dedicated to it.

While I'm not saying that overclocking is trivial, don't use websites as a measure of a task's complexity! Many simple tasks have elaborate instructions on the web...

60 seconds on Google turned up these few...
How to use an extension cord safely
How to comb and wash your hair (many of these)
How to sort, store, and use Lego

Dear Parents and Children

The word LEGO® is a brand name and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special.

Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!

Susan Williams
Consumer Services

Officially, LEGO is a brand name and does not have a plural form. The technically correct term would be "LEGO Toys" or "LEGO Bricks". Of course, I call them "Legos" just like everybody else in the real world.

While most people point out that they just say LEGOs, lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex) dug out:
One catalogue, dated 1980, has the following on its back page:

Dear Parents and Children
The word LEGO(R) is a brand name and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!