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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 16:05:40 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Brian Kasprzyk writes:
> 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.
> >
> > 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 extremely unlikely, the
> > percentage of hoax material here is way way way less than 1%.
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > ++Lar
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> It's scary to think about the probability of it!
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
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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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| (...) 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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