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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"slashdot it?" by jamonterrell · 2007-03-31 13:42 · Score: 0, Troll

Anyone else see the digg-like "slashdot it" box?

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Re:"slashdottit!"? by Pink+Tinkletini · 2007-03-31 14:08 · Score: 0, Troll

Meanwhile, Slashdot continues on its slide to oblivion.

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Re:My new word I've been using by xRelisH · 2007-03-31 17:27 · Score: 0, Troll

Everyone knows the origins of it is "Pawned", as in checkmate, with pawns, PAWNED!!11!!One