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Bizarre April Fool's Day Hoaxes 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." The Taco Liberty Bell In 1996 the Taco Bell Corporation announced that it had bought the Liberty Bell from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called up the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell is housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed that it was all a practical joke a few hours later. The Left-Handed Whopper In 1998 Burger King published a full page Advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Whistling Carrots In 2002 the British supermarket chain Tesco published an advertisement in The Sun announcing the successful development of a genetically modified 'whistling carrot.' The ad explained that the carrots had been specially engineered to grow with tapered airholes in their side. When fully cooked, these airholes caused the vegetable to whistle. Drunk Driving on the Internet An article by John Dvorak in the April 1994 issue of PC Computing magazine described a bill going through Congress that would make it illegal to use the internet while drunk, or to discuss sexual matters over a public network. The bill was supposedly numbered 040194 (i.e. 04/01/94), and the contact person was listed as Lirpa Sloof (April Fools backwards). The article said that the FBI was going to use the bill to tap the phone line of anyone who "uses or abuses alcohol" while accessing the internet. Passage of the bill was felt to be certain because "Who wants to come out and support drunkenness and computer sex?" Portable Zip Codes In 2004 National Public Radio's All Things Considered announced that the post office had begun a new 'portable zip codes' program. This program, inspired by an FCC ruling that allowed phone users to take their phone number with them when they moved, would allow people to also take their zip code with them when they moved, no matter where they moved to. It was hoped that with this new program zip codes would come to symbolize "a citizen's place in the demographic, rather than geographic, landscape." Corporate Tattoos In 1994 National Public Radio's All Things Considered program reported that companies such as Pepsi were sponsoring teenagers to tattoo their ears with corporate logos. In return for branding themselves with the corporate symbol, the teenagers would receive a lifetime 10% discount on that company's products. Teenagers were said to be responding enthusiastically to this deal. [www.museumofhoaxes.com] if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

Broken collarbone BMX riding, crushed ankle at work by a 7000lb FedEx AMJ can. Broken ribs from go-kart racing. Should have had my belts a little tighter. Countless broken fingers and toes. Appendix (sp?) out and a bar fight that ended with me getting stitches and some staples in a few cuts from a broken beer bottle. Also had one skin graft on hand due to a piece of gymnastic equipment falling and pinching off a lob of skin, and fat. My skydiving injuries include a sprained ankle and a few bruises. if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

My husband, Ray, was attempting to build a patio for the first time. He bought 100 cement blocks. Laying them out in a pattern, he discovered the chosen area was too small. He stacked the blocks against the house and cleared more space. The next day Ray put the cement blocks back down, only to find that the ground was too hard to keep the patio level. He ordered a truckload of sand to be delivered the following morning. Again he stacked the 100 blocks against the house. Observing all this, our 'nosey' next-door neighbor asked, "Hey! Ray, are you going to put that patio away 'EVERY night?" if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

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A man goes into a little neighborhood pub, and when he sits down, he notices a beautiful woman sitting at the other end of the bar. He waves to her, and much to his surprise, she winks back at him. It doesn't take long before he is on the stool next to her. They talk for about fifteen minutes and then the man says to the woman, "You're really hot!" "You're pretty cute, too," she says. "I'll tell you what, I live just around the corner. What do you think about coming up to my place?" "It sounds great!" the man eagerly replies. "Before we go up there though," the woman says, "I have to ask you one question: Do you like doing it Greek style?" "Well...uh...I'm not exactly sure what that is," man answers, "but it sure sounds interesting and I'm willing to learn! Let's go!" So the two of them walk over to her apartment. As soon as they get inside the door, the woman rips off all her clothes. The man can't believe his eyes. The woman has an incredibly beautiful body. "Now, you're sure," the woman asks, "that you want to do it Greek style?" "Definitely!" the man replies. "All right, then," says the woman. "Take off all your clothes, and get up on the bed on yours hands and knees." "Sounds like fun!" the man exclaims. He leaps out of his clothes and climbs onto the bed on his hands and knees. The woman goes around and gets onto the bed right in front of the man. She kneels down in front of his head. She asks him again, "Are you sure that you want to do it Greek style?" "Yeah! Yeah!" says the man. The woman grabs the man with her arms right under his armpits, getting him in a lock hold. He can't move at all, and his head is pressing right into her chest. One more time she says, "Are you sure that you want to do it Greek style?" The man's muffled voice can barely be heard from between her breasts. "Yeah!" he mumbles, "Greek style!" The woman's grip on him tightens like a vice, and she yells out, "OK, GUS!" if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

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same here they always show up a few days apart from one another. if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

a pistol of some sort. it is not a gun that you just take and shoot. as far as I know it is worth some money. I can't for the life of me understand why he left it to me. I barely knew him, It should have gone to my brother. I don't/can't have kids and have no one to leave it to. It will end up with my brother's kid in the end. It will be just something that I will put in a safe and will it off. thanks again for all of the information all of you as always have been very helpful if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

I need an actuall picture to compair if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

Thank you great site for info. Normaly I would just put the gun in a box and ship it, But this particular weapon has been in the family since the beginning of the 1900's so I would like to be as carefull as possible. if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

I have a gun that was left to me by a step uncle. He lived in Colorado and I in Arizona. Aside from driving to Colorado to pick it up does anyone know what I would need to do to have it shipped to me? if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

Good question. if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

Wasn't some company in the news recently for telling it's employees that they have to quite smoking or find a new job. I looked but could not come up with the story. if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

Isn't it a glorious day in the newly emerging western socialist empire? What's that you say? There is no totalitarian socialist empire in the west? I beg to differ. A few articles I read on the Internet the other day have convinced me otherwise. If you think you're living in a free society you'd better pull your head out of your ass and take a good look around. For example... The New York City Police Department is in-stalling 505 surveillance cameras around the city - and pushing to safeguard lower Manhattan with a "ring of steel" that could track hundreds of thousands of people and cars a day. Five hundred and five cameras. And New York isn't even the first city to do this...but it is definitely the largest. Invasion of privacy, you say. Ha! If you're not doing any-thing wrong you don't have anything to worry about, do you? Just don't make any honest mistakes. Or be somewhere you're not supposed to be. Or engage in any behavior you don't want anybody to know about. Like shopping for cigarettes, or alcohol, or pornography. Because somebody is going to be watching. Well who cares? Just another anonymous face on a monitor somewhere. Unless they can match your face with biometric information, of course. Like, for example, in Kansas. If you are stopped by police in Kansas, don't be surprised if the officer pulls out a little black box and takes your fingerprints. The gadget allows officers to identify people by fingerprints without hauling them to the police station. Over the next year the Kansas Bureau of Investigation will test 60 of the devices with law enforcement agencies around the state. It used to be that only criminals were finger printed. It was a stigma. "He got taken in and printed." But now it's a matter of course. They're trying to coerce citizenry to volunteer their biometric information by turning finger prints into "passwords" at the grocery store and for your computer. But if you're not quite that stupid they'll get it out of you by force, now. Did you say something subversive? Write a letter to the editor that somebody didn't like? Maybe vote for the wrong person in the last election? Don't be surprised if you get pulled over for not signaling a lane change and have your fingerprints taken and entered into the "system". And then what happens when they match that information with the record of everywhere you go and everything you do from all the camera surveillance? You take a guess, Sharky. Now for the best part. All of the money for these little public service projects is coming from homeland security Funds. And you know what that means...it's the Feds who are ultimately behind it all. Doesn't that make you feel nice and safe? Sleep well tonight. Just make sure the shades are drawn because there's probably a surveillance camera pointed at your window. if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

I just saw "Cortea" (sp?) and it was fantastic. if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

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if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

Sorry I will no longer complain about my 7-4. 12pm-12am now that sucks..... bad if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

that is funny, but I get to sit here till 4pm. who in there right mind decided to make a bodyshop have saturday hours 7-4. it makes no sense. if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

Three weekends in a row the weather has sucked with low clouds and last weekend the first rain in 145 days. Not today though noooooooo today is perfect little white puffies and a nice 5mph breeze but yet here I rot at work. the goddamn phones have only rang twice today. if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

It sounds like my kind of woman.

lmao i never thought of that. if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

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I just clawed my eyes out if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?