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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 22:30:12 GMT
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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.
Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> 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"
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> Both of which were masterfully(1) done and which drew people in for quite a
> while
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> 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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