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Top 5 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very
mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss
farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement
with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees.
Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how
they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC
diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of
tomato sauce and hope for the best."
Can you convince any of our ChatHosts that you grow spaghetti?
#2: San Serriffe
In 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page
supplement in honor of the tenth anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic
located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semi-colon-shaped islands. A
series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this
obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse.
Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian's phones
rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot.
Few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer's
terminology. The success of this hoax is widely credited with launching the
enthusiasm for April Foolery that then gripped the British tabloids in the
following decades. Would one of our ChatHosts fall for this?
Tell them you are from Lower Caisse.
#3: Sidd Finch
In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new
rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he
could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168 mph
(65 mph faster than anyone else has ever been able to throw a ball).
Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had
mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of
the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa." Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their
teams's amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports
Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this
legendary player only existed in the imagination of the writer of the article,
George Plimpton.
Ask one of your friends what kind of man they would invent...
#4: The Predictions
of Isaac Bickerstaff
In February 1708 a previously unknown London astrologer named Isaac Bickerstaff
published an almanac in which he predicted the death by fever of the famous
rival astrologer John Partridge. According to Bickerstaff, Partridge would die
on March 29 of that year. Partridge indignantly denied the prediction, but on
March 30 Bickerstaff released a pamphlet announcing that he had been correct:
Partridge was dead. It took a day for the news to settle in, but soon everyone
had heard of the astrologer's demise. On April 1, April Fool's Day, Partridge
was woken by a sexton outside his window who wanted to know if there were any
orders for his funeral sermon. Then, as Partridge walked down the street,
people stared at him as if they were looking at a ghost or stopped to tell him
that he looked exactly like someone they knew who was dead. As hard as he
tried, Partridge couldn't convince people that he wasn't dead. Bickerstaff, it
turned out, was a pseudonym for the great satirist Jonathan Swift. His
prognosticatory prank upon Partridge worked so well that the astrologer finally
was forced to stop publishing his almanacs, because he couldn't shake his
reputation as the man who had been declared dead.
What would your favourite ChatHost do in this situation?
#5: Nixon for
President
In 1992 National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program announced that
Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new
campaign slogan was, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again."
Accompanying this announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his
candidacy speech. Listeners responded viscerally to the announcement, flooding
the show with calls expressing shock and outrage. Only during the second half
of the show did the host John Hockenberry reveal that the announcement was a
joke. Nixon's voice was impersonated by comedian Rich Little.
Is this funny or stupid? Consult a ChatHost ;-)