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Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
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Sun, 2 Apr 2000 22:00:02 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
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> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
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> I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool
> some of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the
> lugnet readers too.)
I thought it was full-on well done!!! Just realistic enough looking to give
someone an initial glancing doubt, but with plenty of clues, especially the
"© Logo" part at the bottom -- very nice!!! LOL!!!
I can't wait to see what you come up with next year!!!!!
--Todd
p.s. One small request, I hope it's not too pedantic -- now that the cat's
out of the bag, would you consider adding some sort of disclaimer into the
image files, noting that they're not real? I'd hate to see some prankster
putting copies of the photos up at eBay -- *that* would be cruel! Or people
submitting them to the sets database as if they were real sets. :-o
--Todd
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| (...) I fear next years joke will not be mine: everybody would expect me to have done it. (...) Of course that's not pedantic: in three out of five published pictures there is no Lego logo at all. I think they are quite ok, but I will add some (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
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| Hi Folks, I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke. Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my life now, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !!
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