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RoeBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 02:49 PM
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Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
Such as:
#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." Check out the actual broadcast archived on the BBC's website (You need the RealVideo player installed to see it, and it usually loads very slowly).

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilfool2.html

(If they add a #101 it will be DU banning gun discussions in Justice and Public Safety)
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Cursive_Knives512 Donating Member (423 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 02:52 PM
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1. Hehe, those are great
Thanks!
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StClone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 03:01 PM
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2. #9: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers
I knew this was a scam knowing that the specific heat of water (ice) and the energy storage capacity of 'naked creatures' was impossible to reconcile at least in physiology I studied.
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