Ten Best April Fool.........

#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. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."
• Read the full article about the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest.
 
#2: 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 at 168 mph with pinpoint accuracy. This was 65 mph faster than the previous record. 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 celebrated their teams' 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 author of the article, George Plimpton.
• Read the full article about Sidd Finch.
 
#3: Instant Color TV
In 1962 there was only one tv channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that, thanks to a new technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen. Stensson proceeded to demonstrate the process. Thousands of people were taken in. Regular color broadcasts only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.
• Read the full article about Instant Color TV.
 
#4: The Taco Liberty Bell
In 1996 the Taco Bell Corporation announced that it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell was housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed, a few hours later, that it was all a practical joke. The best line of the day came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale. Thinking on his feet, he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold. It would now be known as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.
• Read the full article about the Taco Liberty Bell.
 
#5: San Serriffe
In 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement devoted to 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 gripped the British tabloids in subsequent decades.
• Read the full article about San Serriffe.

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#6: 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 practical joke. Nixon's voice was impersonated by comedian Rich Little.
 
#7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Before long the article had made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly made its way around the world, forwarded by people in their email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by a physicist named Mark Boslough.
 
#8: 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. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."
 
#9: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers
In its April 1995 issue Discover Magazine announced that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds. They used this ability to hunt penguins, melting the ice beneath the penguins and causing them to sink downwards into the resulting slush where the hotheads consumed them. After much research, Dr. Pazzo theorized that the hotheads might have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1837. "To the ice borers, he would have looked like a penguin," the article quoted her as saying. Discover received more mail in response to this article than they had received for any other article in their history.
• Read the full article about the Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer.
 
#10: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity
In 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth's own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.

Hi everyone...........

I am really taken down by all the advices i lately received...............too much for a single person to bear. I accept it was my fault and i swear that i will ever let it happen again. For heavens sake can't they leave me alone..................

And thanks for all the help and suport all of you gave me..................Nithin Jacob and Shandas really deserve a special thanks. Nithin was the first person to rush to the spot. He was with me all the day and the next till everything was in order. And Shan was also with me careing and supporting in his own unique style.........thanks a lot.

Thank god that i am alive...................

Car being raised and taken away........

These pics will tell the story................

The worst day in my life so far.......................

These pics will tell the story.............

Hi folks...........

Hope all of you had a great day......... Nothing really special to report today. Just another odnary day spent watching movies.........playing games.............and other regular blash blash.

Today an idea struck me : Why not develop my blog into a solution center?, I mean computers and other digital stuff (at which I am best at). What I have in mind is a forum where you can post your quires about anything digital- a solution for your problem, what ever be it, will be provided. I am working on it and will be ready soon.

Keep tuned in, take care...............................

Warning..................

Mumbai police are facing a strange case of rape in which the victim has not even seen the criminal. There is a new way to rape women. The victim left the office after work and saw a little child crying on the road.
Feeling pity for the child, she went and asked what happened. The child said, "I am lost can you take me home please?" Then the child gave her a slip and told the girl where the address is. The girl, being an average kind person, didn't suspect anything and took the child there. And there when she arrived to the "child's home", she pressed the door bell, she received a shock as the bell was wired with high voltage, the girl fainted.
The next day when she woke up, she found herself in an empty house up in the hills, with nothing on. She didn't even get to see the face of the attacker...Nowadays crimes are targeted on kind people. Next time if the same situation occurs, never bring the child to the intended place. If the child insists, then bring the child to the police station. Lost children are best sent to police stations. Please send this to all your female friends. Guys forward it to all the women you care about.

A day with my new phone

After updating my blog yesterday i went straight to a mobile phone shop, AR Associates (opps!! an add not paid for........) and brought a new mobile. This link will lead you to the specs of my phone: http://www.esato.com/phones/index.php/phone=264 or for a comlete review visit: http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Id=2878.

The phone is really good with a cool set of features.

That is not all............. my roommate, Vigin Viciliff

(for those of you who dont know him: A really good guy, helping, god fearing, clean habits, intelligant............. does it sound like a marriage classifeds?...........Yes, he is a gentleman.)

Ah! well he brought a graphics card(6200a AGP 8X, 256Mb, DDR2). This card bagged the Chip Best Valve Award march 2007. A really good card..............., and that is not all we also laid our hands on a Creative SBS 2+1---------- emptying our pockets.

For review on the card visit:http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/inno3d_geforce_6200a/

The rest of the day was spend on all these. Now the time is 1:32am (you are right, din't sleep.)

Thanks to all of you out there who made my life beautiful..............

First Post

This is my first posting....... Well this blog is my "personal" dairy on the web....... a dairy for all of you to peep in, Oh! din't mean it........" My life should be an open book" - thought behind this blog. So beware all of you out there, you might find a place in this blog. [I might still keep some dark little secrets to myelf]. Welcome all of you to my blog.............