Silly Week strikes again.

[philp]

So, both of my completed Whiffs have been published on ARC under the Silly Week.  Today, I recieved the following email.

Dear sir,
I am writing an article, which deals with the first israeli jet fighters. By chance I visited http://arcmodeler.com/Gal4/3101-3200/Gal3110_S-92_Peterson/00.shtm and was astonished to read that the israelis had in fact received S-92 jet fighters from Czechoslovakia.Could you please mention the source of this information?
Best regards,
(name withheld)

After the initial sly smile, I emailed him and advised him about Silly Week (which is noted just below the title on ARC) and let him off the hook gracefully but, of course, I have to share.

[Aircav]

He's obviously never heard of Biggles before 

[beowulf]

good greif......





how hard was it not to feed him a line and wait foe his article to come out?  

[pyro-manic]

Gah ha ha ha!

[puddingwrestler]

Didn't that happen to someone here a few years ago - put some pics of a whiff plane (Italian tri-motor jet I think) online with a good back story, and found that it appeared in a book some years later?

[The Rat]

...let him off the hook gracefully but, of course, I have to share.

Of course you do, in fact it's required, details here. 

[The Rat]

Didn't that happen to someone here a few years ago - put some pics of a whiff plane (Italian tri-motor jet I think) online with a good back story, and found that it appeared in a book some years later?

It happened to Alvis when he made his Fortcaster years ago. Check out the April 2002 chapter on this page.

[Captain Canada]

Am I missing something ? Where's silly week ? And isn't it only the 25th ?

[The Rat]

Am I missing something ? Where's silly week ? And isn't it only the 25th ?

SILLY WEEK NEWBIE! SILLY WEEK NEWBIE!    It runs at least the entire first week of each new year, and the one Phil was referring to was back in '05.

[The Rat]

Sheesh Toad, what have you been drinking? I just checked and you've had a few models on Silly Week yourself, and you don't remember?! 

[Captain Canada]

Nobody told me a 60 a day would do me any harm !



Thanks for clarifying....and "d'oh!"

[The Rat]

Nobody told me a 60 a day would do me any harm !

Slacker.

[ChrisF]

Didn't that happen to someone here a few years ago - put some pics of a whiff plane (Italian tri-motor jet I think) online with a good back story, and found that it appeared in a book some years later?

It happened to Alvis when he made his Fortcaster years ago. Check out the April 2002 chapter on this page.

I particularly like the bit about aircraft modellers having a "twisted sense of reality" 

[Jschmus]

Didn't that happen to someone here a few years ago - put some pics of a whiff plane (Italian tri-motor jet I think) online with a good back story, and found that it appeared in a book some years later?

Yeah, that's Sequoia Ranger's "Caproni Bologna":

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=2414

[The Rat]

I particularly like the bit about aircraft modellers having a "twisted sense of reality" 

Yeah, makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, doesn't it?