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Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
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Sun, 2 Apr 2000 22:57:42 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
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> Hi Folks,
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
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> 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.)
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> 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.....
Unfortunately, as real as Disneyland and for one moment we were all hoping to
see an announcement stating that the two systems were compatible!
Well done.
Jon
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> 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.
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> So this hoax might help us to get some better train stuff in future. That's at
> least my hope.
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> 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.
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> Ben
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> P.s.:
> for some more information go here:
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> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun
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