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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."

3 of 234 comments (clear)

  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. 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.

  3. 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/