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Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
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Sun, 2 Apr 2000 21:30:34 GMT
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There are ha-ha jokes, and there are cruel jokes.
Yours, sir, was DEFINITELY the latter.
Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was
> strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke.
>
> Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
> life now, because I have to declare:
>
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
>
> I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool some
> of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the lugnet
> readers too.)
>
> But what happened here was succeeding all my imaginations by far. And I'm glad,
> that enough people had their doubts about the faked catalogue: I would have
> felt much worse if anybody had started to sell of his "old" stuff because of
> the new sets, which will never come like this of course.....
>
> One good thing I can see in all this is the following: TLC will surely
> have been informed of the faked train program and they can see how much
> exitement it caused under the train heads. And while reading all the posts of
> the thread, they could filter a lot of information, wishes and requirements out
> of them.
>
> So this hoax might help us to get some better train stuff in future. That's at
> least my hope.
>
> I fear I will get a lot of response on this post now. I will try to answer all
> questions, but I have a job and my english is not the best. So I beg your
> pardon, if I'm not able to give satisfieing answers to all requests
> immediately.
>
> Ben
>
> P.s.:
> for some more information go here:
>
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun
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