Posted on 04/01/2009 8:45:24 AM PDT by JoeProBono
1. In 1957 the BBC's Panorama news programme announced that due to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the 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 the BBC asking how they could grow their own spaghetti tree....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I was thinking precisely of “Siddartha Finch”.
I was in high school when SI published that story.
Many Southern California Freepers tune into KRLA, “intelligent conservative talk radio,” at 870 kilocycles on the AM band. However, between 1959 and 2001, a different station using those call letters broadcast rock and roll music to Southern California at 1110 kcs.
On the first day of April—I believe it was 1989—I tuned to KRLA and noticed a significant change in the usual programming. The songs were all “oldies” from the early 1960’s, yet the disc jokeys spoke of them as though they were current hits. Many of the ads were for businesses or products that no longer existed or used jingles and slogans in vogue decades before. I was beginning to think that I had passed through a time warp.
During the news broadcast, the biggest news event being reported on was a powerful rainstorm that was battering Southern California that afternoon (the weather was dry as I listened to the broadcast). Since I vividly recall the storm, I realized that the broadcast was from April Fool’s Day, 1963.
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Opie & Anthony (recently of New York fame) were fired from a radio station in Boston a few years ago after they staged a dramatic "breaking news" story one April 1st about the untimely death of Boston mayor Thomas (Mumbles) Meninho in a car accident.
From what I heard, it was incredibly realistic and had people in tears all over Boston.
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ROFL. I don't even like Opie & Anthony, but that one was a classic.
I remember seeing this on an American news show. It was one of the funniest hoaxes I’ve ever seen. One thing that made it so funny is that it was the way our classroom films about other countries sounded at the time. (More recently “The God’s Must Be Crazy” narrator sounded like these documentaries.)
Hayden Siddhartha "Sidd" Finch takes aim at some cans on a sand dune at a Florida beach.
yes..yes...yes, but what about its' "carbon footprint"?....
11. Global Warming...Hoax.
12. The "Carbon Foot" Print...Hoax. 
I think that the events from November 4, 2008 to now have been one long April Fools joke...
Obama...
Hope...
Change....
No more business as usual...
New Washington culture...
All jokes!
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