And yet, even the Onion (which I love) gets occasionally mistaken for real news. And my daughter and I were just this morning boggling at the whole Spaghetti Trees incident.
The report was produced as an April Fools' Day joke in 1957, showing a family in the canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland as they gathered a bumper spaghetti harvest after a mild winter and "virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil".
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_trees)
The spaghetti weevil! I am giggling.
And then there's the "fake" urban legends on Snopes...
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Date: 2011-04-01 05:03 pm (UTC)And yet, even the Onion (which I love) gets occasionally mistaken for real news. And my daughter and I were just this morning boggling at the whole Spaghetti Trees incident.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_trees)
The spaghetti weevil! I am giggling.
And then there's the "fake" urban legends on Snopes...