No way would that hoax have fooled me!
I have enough sense to know that spaghetti trees are found in Italy, not Switzerland.
In 2023 selling Spaghetti tree starter kits online could bring in huge revenue
There’s a vegetable seed store that sells a pizza kit. It includes the seeds needed for the various vegetables in the toppings and sauce. :) Kind of clever. Whenever I see it, I’m reminded of the spaghetti trees video.
We have come a long way from 1962 when a group of animal rights crazies demanded of Caroline Kennedy....”CAROLINE! PLEASE CLOTHE YOUR HORSE!” “MR PRESIDENT! PLEASE CLOTHE CAROLINE’S HORSE!”
Believe it or not, about 35 thousand people signed a petition for her to do that.
Nothing can ever top the BBC’s hoax of pawning off Jimmy Savile as a decent human being.
My favorite BBC April Fools prank was the flying penguins. The best was a David Attenboro look alike narrating it.
Hey, Diana, where can we get seeds for this?????
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Ironically, the spaghetti tree story happened about the same time Jean Shepherd pulled the, "I, Libertine," hoax...another epic story.
Haha
These pranks are practically verboten in our humorless, overly-sensitive, easily offended society.
One of the really good pranks I remember was in 1980, which was just after Mount St Helens started erupting. A Boston TV station reported on an eruption at Great Blue Hill, which is a dinky 600 foot hill outside of Boston in Milton, visible from Route 128. I think some radio stations picked up on it too.
The concept of this little hill erupting was so ridiculous that the biggest danger was probably motorists driving off the road while convulsed in laughter. But some dopey people took it serious and started fleeing their homes.
Naturally, people at the station got fired as a result.
I have a plant called a money tree. Got it as a gag gift, but it’s kinda pretty.
https://www.hgtv.com/outdoors/flowers-and-plants/how-to-grow-and-care-for-a-money-tree-plant
I remember seeing this and I believed it. I was 4.