Top 10 April Fools Stories

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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Re:"slashdottit!"?

[Psycosys]

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?

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[Johnny_Law]

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