Top Four April Fools Cont.

Top Four April Fools Cont.
Mar 22, 2006 03:17
NIHAOCHINA Points: Join Date: Mar 30, 2004 Status: offline	No.3 UFO lands near London On March 31,astonsihed British policemen were sent to investigate a glowing flying saucer that had settled down in a field in Surrey.As the policemen approached it, the door opened in the bottom of the ship and a small figure wearing a silver space suit walked out.The policemen immediately fled in the opposite direction.The figure turned out to be a midget,and the flying saucer was a hot air balloon that had been specially built to look like a UFO by Richard Branson,the 36-year-old chariman of Virgin Records.Branson had taken off in the balloon the day before ,planning to land in london's Hyde Park on April 1.However ,a wind change had blown him down a day early in the Surrey field. The police reported that they received a flood of phone calls from scared motorist using roadside emergency phones as he balloon passed by the highway.One lady reportedly called a radio station to describe the UFO that she was looking at,not realising that she was standing in front of her wondow naked One of the policemen who had to approach the "UFO'' later admitted that"i have never been so scared in 20 years of being a policeman.'' No.4 The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest On April 1,1957 the British news show broadcast a story about the big spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland.The success of the crop was because of an unusually mid winter.The audience heard the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched a rural Swiss family picking up spaghetti off trees and placing it into baskets Why,if spaghetti grows on trees,does it always come in uniform lengths?The answer was that"this is the result of many years of patient effort.'' And the life of the spaghetti farmer was not free of worries:"the last two weeks of March are an anxious time for spaghetti farmers.There's always the chance of a late frost which,while not entirely destroying the crops,generally affects the flavor and makes it difficult for him to obtain top prices in world market.'' For those who love this dish,there's nothing like real ,home-grown spaghetti . The BBC was flooded with calls,and when curious viewers asked how they could grow spaghetti trees,and the BBC reportedly replied that they should "place a piece of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.''

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No.3 UFO lands near London

On March 31,astonsihed British policemen were sent to investigate a glowing flying saucer that had settled down in a field in Surrey.As the policemen approached it, the door opened in the bottom of the ship and a small figure wearing a silver space suit walked out.The policemen immediately fled in the opposite direction.The figure turned out to be a midget,and the flying saucer was a hot air balloon that had been specially built to look like a UFO by Richard Branson,the 36-year-old chariman of Virgin Records.Branson had taken off in the balloon the day before ,planning to land in london's Hyde Park on April 1.However ,a wind change had blown him down a day early in the Surrey field.
The police reported that they received a flood of phone calls from scared motorist using roadside emergency phones as he balloon passed by the highway.One lady reportedly called a radio station to describe the UFO that she was looking at,not realising that she was standing in front of her wondow naked
One of the policemen who had to approach the "UFO'' later admitted that"i have never been so scared in 20 years of being a policeman.''

No.4 The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest

On April 1,1957 the British news show broadcast a story about the big spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland.The success of the crop was because of an unusually mid winter.The audience heard the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched a rural Swiss family picking up spaghetti off trees and placing it into baskets
Why,if spaghetti grows on trees,does it always come in uniform lengths?The answer was that"this is the result of many years of patient effort.''
And the life of the spaghetti farmer was not free of worries:"the last two weeks of March are an anxious time for spaghetti farmers.There's always the chance of a late frost which,while not entirely destroying the crops,generally affects the flavor and makes it difficult for him to obtain top prices in world market.''
For those who love this dish,there's nothing like real ,home-grown spaghetti .
The BBC was flooded with calls,and when curious viewers asked how they could grow spaghetti trees,and the BBC reportedly replied that they should "place a piece of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.''

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