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Subject: 
Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:31:25 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
> > 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"
> 
> And these were both on April 1st? You'd think that the second time around,
> the debunking would come rather quickly.

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



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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. (26 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)

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