Top 10 April Fools Stories · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 31, 2007 @01:36PM 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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OMG PONIES!!! by Red+Cape · 2007-03-31 13:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

I LUV CUTE THINGS!

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Re:"slashdottit!"? by GrumpySimon · 2007-03-31 13:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'm looking forward to fanboy posts about what Kevin Rose had for breakfast, and the turning off of threaded comments mode. Yay!

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Re:"slashdottit!"? by Falladir · 2007-03-31 14:16 · Score: 5, Insightful

Have you read the comments on digg? We don't want them here anyway. It's better that they leave.