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Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes
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Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:12:13 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Shiri Dori writes:
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.

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
while

1 - by that I mean they fooled many people for a goodly period of time,
although there were professional debunkers who successfully nitpicked at the
cracks and unraveled them eventually..

++Lar



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  Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes
 
(...) 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)
  Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes
 
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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(...) 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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