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Top 100 Hoaxes of All Time

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slashdot-not-a-winner dept.

Kaz Riprock writes "Did you know that Taco Bell bought the Liberty Bell? Or that Spaghetti grows on trees?? Here is a pretty interesting website that compiles 100 of the best hoaxes perpetrated through the ages."

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  1. Obviously..... by sogoodsofarsowhat · · Score: 5, Funny

    /. should be at the top of this list :)

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    . I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....
  2. Morons! by NetMasta10bt · · Score: 5, Funny


    #17: The Left-Handed Whopper
    In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."

    1. Re:Morons! by unicron · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bah, amateurs.

      In college pulled one that people still talk about. Me, mostly.

      A friend of mine had taken a real liking to online trading through Datek. I had the great idea to spoof their security division's email address and send him one accusing him of insider trading. Guess he didn't pick up on the fact that most emails of this type wouldn't contain the sentence "stick around there so we can arrest you when we get there."

      He comes rushing into my dorm room(at a REALLY, REALLY bad time, mind you) screaming up and down about FED's and insider trading and this and that. My girlfriend and I can barely contain ourselves and luckily he took off again to call his father before we lost it. I go downstairs, and a mutual friend that was in on it tells me I've gotta tell him the truth, because he just called his father. Turns out his father is some fat cat attorney back in Cali. I come clean, he takes a swing at me, it was all in good fun. To this day I still say to him "remember that time I made you think you were going to spend the rest of your life in prison?"..good times.

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      Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
  3. It's about time by seinman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, an April Fool's Day post that isn't annoying as hell!

  4. One of the biggest hoaxes that site missed: by Tofino · · Score: 5, Funny
    One of the biggest hoaxes that site missed:

    "News for nerds. Stuff that matters."

  5. Dihydrogen Monoxide by shane_rimmer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Where was Dihydrogen Monoxide?

  6. Orson Wells by jimson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm really surprised to not find Orson Well's War of the Worlds in the top 20 anyways. That has to be one of the best hoaxes ever! War of the Worlds