Again people called in to learn more as it didn’t work right away!. Spaghetti Harvest On April 1, 1957, BBC announced on the news that thanks to a very mild winter people in Switzerland
Trang 1Instant colour TV
In 1962 Sweden had only one TV station and it broadcast in black and white However, they told the viewers that they could convert their existing TV sets to display color reception very easily All they had to do was to pull a nylon stocking over their TV screen
They had a technical expert demonstrate it! Again people called in
to learn more as it didn’t work right away!
Spaghetti Harvest
On April 1, 1957, BBC announced on the
news that thanks to a very mild winter people
in Switzerland were enjoying an incredible
spaghetti crop They accompanied the message
with a picture of people pulling strands of
spaghetti down from trees A huge number of
viewers were taken in and called the BBC to
find out how they could grow their own
spaghetti To this BBC answered that they
should place a sprig og spaghetti in a tin of
tomato sauce and hope for the best!
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The left-handed Whopper
Burger King published a full page advertisement in the April 1st
edition of US Today some years ago announcing that they had a new item on the menu 32 million left-handed Americans could now enjoy a burger designed especially for them The new whopper had all the same ingredients as the original one except all the condiments had been rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of the left-handed people
LA Highways Close for Repair
In 1987 a disc jockey in Los Angeles
announced that the highway system would be
closed for an entire month due to repair It was
alarming news as you need to go on the
highway to get almost everywhere in Los
Angeles People started calling in and the
California Highway Patrol reported that they
were flooded with calls throughout the day A
representative from the California Department
of Transportation called the station’s manager
to let him know that they didn’t like the prank! Whistling Carrots
Twelve years ago the British supermarket chain Tesco announced in an advertisement
in The Sun that they had developed a genetically modified “whistling carrot” The carrots had grown with tapered airholes in their side When fully cooked, these holes caused the carrots to whistle
Dogs Painted White
In 1965 Politiken, a Danish newspaper had a
story about all dogs must be painted white It
was because it would increase road safety at
night by allowing dogs to be seen more easily
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Read about the different hoaxes and decide which one you like best and why?
Then write in you notebook a prank you would like to be published in a paper or brought on television
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