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Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:49:08 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Low writes:
> In lugnet.general, Ravi Mohan writes:
> > > > 95% of
> > > > > posters to Lugnet seem to be North American/European/Australasian: I hope
> > > > > most of these people had previously encountered practical jokes on April • 1.
> > > > > 
> > > > But that leaves only south america, africa and antartica-no one builds lego
> > > > in antartica right and Autralasia is an awfullybig place!
> > > 
> > > Sorry for any confusion Ravi -- by Australasia I only meant Australia, New
> > > Zealand and the South Pacific. So roughly 10% of the world's population • would
> > > have the same cultural background as 95% of Lugnetters, and there's still a
> > > fair range in that 10%.
> > > 
> > > --Dave
> > 
> > Huh-iwas just kidding!-note phrase awfullybig
> 
> That's cool, and it's also cool that it demonstrates my point. Communication,
> especially humour, can easily be misunderstood in a forum where people come
> from different backgrounds and read in different ways.
> 
> --Dave

It also happens to pple with similar backgrounds!



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  Re: The problem I have with upcoming product hoaxes
 
(...) That's cool, and it's also cool that it demonstrates my point. Communication, especially humour, can easily be misunderstood in a forum where people come from different backgrounds and read in different ways. --Dave (26 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)

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