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| | | (800 pounds of foolishness removed) Geesh, can't you take a joke? (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Brian Kasprzyk
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| | | | (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Larry Pieniazek
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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. 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 (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Brian Kasprzyk
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| | | | | | (...) first (...) Lego (...) somewhere (...) remember (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | (...) a (...) But not both hoaxes were by Ben (you're talking about the AT-AT hoax, not so? That was Greg M.'s). Still, very low probability, there weren't many hoaxes here. -Shiri (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) No, he was talking about Ben's one year ago april fools "I found a really old train set" and this years april fools "there is some new train stuff coming in December" Both of which were masterfully(1) done and which drew people in for quite a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | (...) And these were both on April 1st? You'd think that the second time around, the debunking would come rather quickly. (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | | (...) No, because this time Ben didn't post it himself... he put it up at a german lego site, that didn't mention who put the catalogs in... no hints to relate it to Ben until he out-and-out admitted it. -Shiri (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | Both of which have made me basically not trust anything Ben says ANYWHERE near April. And maybe the rest of the year too. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | (...) Am I the only one who wants to see more attempts to copy the quality and designs of official instructions and packaging? Maybe it's my interest in design...Maybe blatant hoaxes can hurt people, but I think hoaxes will make people pay closer (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | Bram, > Am I the only one who wants to see more attempts to copy the quality and (...) I think we might be getting off the original intent of the posting. I liked the train hoax. I think it was really well done, and the discussion for it was valid. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Dave Schuler
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| | | | Scott: (...) I'm torn about this. I agree that lugnet.announcements might be a problem, since the supposition seems to be that information posted there is presented as accurate in good faith. I'd be less worked up about a hoax posted to an (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | Dave, (...) next (...) problem, (...) presented (...) an (...) lugnet.starwars. (...) Indeed. This just smelt bad to me. (...) labels (...) Well, yes, but I don't mind hoaxes about my favorite subject, as others I am sure. I guess this concerned me (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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