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Top 10 April Fools Stories

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the true-history-in-the-making dept.

SlashRating© 10 slashdottit! tm ddelmonte writes with a link to a brietbart story on the top ten April Fools Day hoaxes, as determined by the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes. Two great British examples: "In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home. In 1977, British newspaper The Guardian published a seven-page supplement for the 10th anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semicolon-shaped islands. A series of articles described the geography and culture of the two main islands, named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse."

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  1. Re:"slashdottit!"? by Psycosys · · Score: 4, Informative

    Isn't it obvious that the April Fools day theme this year is to pretend to be digg?

    slashdott with 2 t's, digg with 2 g's...

    How am I supposed to slashdott down though? It seems like I can only add to the number of slashdotts and never subtract from it.

    Also when are they going to announce a slashdottNation videocast?

  2. Re:Ponies by Johnny_Law · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mod this comment Insightful, for no particular reason. Please, mod this comment Informative, also for no particular reason.
  3. Ahem... by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://reddit.com/goto?id=1edx1

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  4. Re:"slashdottit!"? by Dunbal · · Score: 2, Informative

    Meanwhile, Slashdot continues on its slide to oblivion.

          Actually looking at those graphs slashdot is pretty constant, and not sliding anywhere. Digg is experiencing growth, but slashdot is not decreasing.

          Personally I hope most of the idiots leave us for Digg, and then this site might just go back to what it was before. Oh and they can take Roland Piquepaille with them!

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  5. I always enjoy the 1st by kahrytan · · Score: 2, Informative



      The first thing I do on April 1st is visit Google.com. Those people come up with the funniest jokes. Anyone like this years joke? If anyone falls for it. They get a complimentary swirlie on me.

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