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| (...) I certainly don't think that April Fools day should be canceled. What I am concerned is that with electronic communication amongst relative strangers, hoaxes lose something. With the face to face April Fools jokes of my childhood, one had all (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Thanks for raising those last points about "show[ing] genuine concern for someone giving it up, and then getting slammed for it." And "[r]ealize that people come here for a variety of reasons and with various backgrounds." Indeed, the joke was (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3ABF58EB.1D70@m...ing.com... (...) Mark put in some clues of his own. Did you read down on the side of his message, all the capital letters lined up to spell 'APRIL FOOLS' and the FUT was set (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Perhaps I could stand to lighten up, but perhaps I'm also genuinly concerned for our community, but maybe I shouldn't. Perhaps I should just let the community go where it wants. Maybe I shouldn't care about my fellow man. If you believe I am (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Since my name continues to reappear, I'll reiterate: I know this thread is long over, and it would probably be best to simply leave it alone, but something needs to be clarified. I don’t believe that anybody was really offended by the joke. (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Stripped out .off-topic.fun because this isn't! (...) Obviously some have taken offense to my use of the word "Sucker" and I would like to explain that I don't find the word insulting. Last year when Ben did his April Fool's train post I got (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| So, I suppose I should shelve my plans for a "Gun-weilding teen blames LEGOWars" announcement? -gyug (geeez, just kidding!) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) If I jump into a flaming post, and someone jumps on me I am kind of expecting that not everyone is going to be kind. On the other hand if I am empathizing with someone or having a genuine Lego discussion with someone and I get flamed out of no (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| "Rose Regner" <lego@r2eng.com> wrote in message news:GAu85v.5Bz@lugnet.com... (...) stand (...) up (...) it (...) Ok. (...) Well, I can say with a clear conscience that I did not intend that message to be harsh, my attitude in posting it was not (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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