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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:And so it begins... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I know. What's Slashdot without Anonymous Coward?

    And, actually, removing Anonymous Coward for a day would be an amusing joke.

  2. Right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Tag this "omgponies" for no real reason?

  3. Re:"slashdottit!"? -- April fool's joke? by p_trekkie · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe this is slashdot's April fool's joke?

    I mean think about it... it's almost april 1st, the page it links to makes no sense... anyone else smell a prank here?

  4. Re:"slashdottit!"? by cyphercell · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't really care.

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  5. Re:And so it begins... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At this point, the best joke that could be played on slashdot's users would be to just make April 1st a normal day. We'd end up spending the whole day trying to figure out what was up.

  6. The actual Museum of Hoaxes link by hey+hey+hey · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Yes, there really is such a site (lord only knows if there is actually a museum), and you get 100 hoaxes instead of just a paltry 10 for the price of a click...

    http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/

  7. Re:"slashdottit!"? -- April fool's joke? by KDingo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had to think a little while about that 'slashdottit' box. For a second I thought the time had come what this site has been aching for a long time: Modded articles. I'd figure the article would have a similar score range (-1 to +5) to the comment system, and with Firehose in development I really thought the time had indeed come.

    I guess I was fooled.

  8. they left out cartoon network by Pyrex5000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cartoon Network pulled a hilarious April Fool's joke a few years back.

  9. Re:And so it begins... by nmb3000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Regardless, I'd say we tag every story put up today as omgponies.

    Ever since last year, OMGPONIES == April Fools for me. Bring back the pink!

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  10. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  11. Re:And so it begins... by grub · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Heh, years ago in IRC I wrote something to the effect of "Reading Slashdot at -1 is like driving through Cracktown with the motor stuck in first gear." (memory spark, I think a buddy has that on his quote page)

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