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Top 100 April Fools Hoaxes Of All Time

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    http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilfool2.html[^] Unbelievable. Some people actually thought you could grow a spaghetti tree??? Marc Microsoft MVP, Visual C# MyXaml MyXaml Blog

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      http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilfool2.html[^] Unbelievable. Some people actually thought you could grow a spaghetti tree??? Marc Microsoft MVP, Visual C# MyXaml MyXaml Blog

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      Marc Clifton wrote: Some people actually thought you could grow a spaghetti tree??? I dunno if it's the same one, but they did that in Australia in the 50's, when most Aussies didn't know what pasta was, let alone ate it. Christian I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder

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        http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilfool2.html[^] Unbelievable. Some people actually thought you could grow a spaghetti tree??? Marc Microsoft MVP, Visual C# MyXaml MyXaml Blog

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        One of my favourites - but mostly because the guy at the end refused to believe it was an April Fool joke. #26: Tass Expands Into American Market In 1982 the Connecticut Gazette and Connecticut Compass, weekly newspapers serving the Old Lyme and Mystic areas, both announced that they were being purchased by Tass, the official news agency of the Soviet Union. On their front pages they declared that this was "the first expansion of the Soviet media giant outside of the Iron Curtain." The article also revealed that after Tass had purchased the Compass, its two publishers had both been killed by "simultaneous hunting accidents" in which they had shot each other in the back of the head with "standard-issue Soviet Army rifles." The announcement was bylined "By John Reed," and the new publisher, Vydonch U. Kissov, announced that the paper would be "thoroughly red." In response to the news, the offices of the Compass and the Gazette received calls offering condolences for the death of the publishers. One caller also informed them that he had long suspected them of harboring communist tendencies, and that it was only a matter of time before all the papers in the country were communist-controlled. When the publishers tried to explain that the article had been an April Fool's prank, the caller replied, "You expect me to believe a bunch of Commies?"


        "You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

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          http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilfool2.html[^] Unbelievable. Some people actually thought you could grow a spaghetti tree??? Marc Microsoft MVP, Visual C# MyXaml MyXaml Blog

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          A few years ago I watched some show on Discovery Channel about recently discovered creatures, and I seem to recall a mention of "Hotheaded Ice Borers". Weird.

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