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Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:56:06 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.general, Brian Kasprzyk writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Patrick J. Shepard writes:
> > > (800 pounds of foolishness removed)
> > >
> > > Geesh, can't you take a joke?
> >
> > I understood your posting as very obvious joke. But, a year ago, when I • first
> > started looking at Lugnet, I saw the 121 train question and wasted several
> > hours researching it. I was not happy to come to a site that I thought was a
> > true Lego site for people who loved the bricks and be deceived by a bogus • Lego
> > set. I basically stopped looking at Legnet after that. I started looking
> > again recently and low and behold, another bogus posting and add created. I
> > agree with the first posting. That type of deception should be done • somewhere
> > else.
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> I haven't decided how I feel about "serious" hoaxes yet, although I tend to
> side with you that they can be bad.
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> But I have to say that you got incredibly unlucky if the first two things you
> saw were both hoaxes, and both by Ben. That is extremely unlikely, the
> percentage of hoax material here is way way way less than 1%.
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> Don't give up on LUGNET as a whole, it's an incredible resource (not the only
> one, mind you, there's brickset and brickshelf and some others I can't • remember
> too).
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> ++Lar
It's scary to think about the probability of it! I am trying to keep an open
mind because it IS a way to see some really creative models. I am working on
my own web page. Hopefully, people will like it. I have been building with
Lego for years and have some nice layouts. I'm like most modelers, I open my
boxes and use them! Thanks for the response.
BK>
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