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Subject: 
Re: Calling it Quits
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:09:42 GMT
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Honestly, I've never in my life heard of an April Fools joke played in
March, except for the train hoax in .trains last year.

Being a week early made me think it was real.

Now I can agree there, and its not as much fun for me anymore.  But jokes
like this (appropriately timed) add to the flavor for me.

If it was a joke, I personally think it was in extremely bad taste.

I agree.

The ONLY thing I think that was done to the extreme was the post to
.announce.  That dilutes the purpose of the group.  A post to people and a
followup to o-t.fun would have been better.

It was totally inappropriate for .announce if it was a joke.  I seriously
hope something like this never happens here again.

I agree again.

Has foot in mouth reached the states already?

Posting the message in the Top Stories was the main reason I thought it was for
real.  (I missed the downward letters- not in the habit of reading that way.)

But then I thought "what could he be moving on TO that is better than LUGNET?"
:)



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  Re: Calling it Quits
 
(...) I'll tell you both one thing. I happen to remember this: (URL) at the time shocked me but turned out to be true. When I read Mark Sandlin's post in .announce earlier, I had absolutely no reason to doubt it. (...) Honestly, I've never in my (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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