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Thread #58382 Message #924118
Posted By: GUEST
01-Apr-03 - 11:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Memorable April Fool's Jokes
Subject: RE: BS: Memorable April Fool's Jokes
i oncwe worked for a silly little local newspaper in the saanich pennisula near victoeia British Columbia. we put out an april fools issue that included'
1. a head line at the time if the marriage of dianna to prince charles
CHUCK AND DI TO HONNEYMOON IN THE PENNISULA
2. a story in a farm regiom where the potato crop was threatened by golden neimetodes--little buggs
KILLER NEIMETODES FROM AFRICA INVADE THE FARMS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
3. finally in a era when many rural pople were afraid of mass immigrantion to canada and in an area where the agricultural farm reserve was a big issue(to try and preserve farm land from development)
SAANICH PENUSILA TO BE REZONED FOR MULTIPLE UNIT DWELLINGS TO HOUSE FIFTY THOUSAND REFUGES FROM THE WARN TORN AFFRICAN NATION OF TIMBOBWE
with a follow up that little is know about the war in timbonwe except that the countries two leaders, tim and bob have been at war for thirty years
people were outrages they didn't realiz e it was ajoke ane we got thousands of calls.
sadly the paper was a real sleazy advertiser the rest of the time