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Title: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: MaineWriter on March 31, 2006, 07:59:43 pm: I just saw this on the evening news...apparently, it was a huge April fool's joke in 1957 -- I never heard of it but it is funny. Enjoy!

Leslie

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/newsid_2819000/2819261.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/newsid_2819000/2819261.stm)

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUvNnmFtgI[/youtube]
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: delalluvia on March 31, 2006, 09:35:40 pm: What a bunch of nickle-heads to fall for that!!! :D
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on March 31, 2006, 10:45:21 pm: You ... you ... you mean sphaghetti doesn't grow on bushes?

8^)

I saw the story on the NBC evening news. Very funny! Leave it to the Brits!

Jeff
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on April 01, 2006, 11:31:24 am: Leslie,

What a hoot! Well, uncanny as it may seem, I saw this as a child on American Television over forty years ago, on the Jack Paar show.

Americans were thought to be too familiar with 'spaghetti' (sophisticates all, now, we say 'pasta' instead) to fall for the hoax, so rather than being presented as an April Fools joke, it was presented at the expense of our supposedly clueless UK cousins--"Can you believe they fell for this," etc.

I remember falling over in giggles. My father, who had NO sense of humor, roared with laughter. I would occasionally mention it to people, but no one had ever heard of it--

Thanks for posting!
Title: Re: Dinner for One
Post by: MaineWriter on April 01, 2006, 12:04:05 pm: Okay, now I have "The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest" to watch every year on April 1.

Back on New Year's, I was laughing uproariously at "Dinner for One" which I also never heard of. Here is a good story:

http://www.slate.com/id/2133551/ (http://www.slate.com/id/2133551/)

which has a link to the video.

and here's the IMDb link.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121210/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9ZGlubmVyIGZvciBvbmV8ZnQ9MXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8Y289MXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=22;fm=1 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121210/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9ZGlubmVyIGZvciBvbmV8ZnQ9MXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8Y289MXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=22;fm=1)
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: houstonangel88 on April 01, 2006, 12:05:37 pm: Wow...it is sooo funny!!!!.. Thanks for posting... I can't believe people would fall for that !!! ;D
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: MaineWriter on July 17, 2006, 08:46:06 am: bump...Amanda is posting old threads...here is a totally ridiculous one from our early, heady days here. Enjoy!
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: MaineWriter on April 01, 2008, 08:50:53 am: Bumping this because the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest is considered the Number One April Fool's Hoax of all time. Enjoy!

WSB
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 01, 2008, 10:26:52 am: Quote from: Sir Sterndale-Bennett on April 01, 2008, 08:50:53 am
Bumping this because the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest is considered the Number One April Fool's Hoax of all time. Enjoy!

WSB

Will spaghetti be plentiful this year? ;D
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: MaineWriter on April 01, 2008, 10:53:33 am: Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 01, 2008, 10:26:52 am
Will spaghetti be plentiful this year? ;D

I don't know, it's been a very wet and rainy winter. Not good for spaghetti growing....

WSB
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 01, 2008, 11:09:37 am: Quote from: Sir Sterndale-Bennett on April 01, 2008, 10:53:33 am
I don't know, it's been a very wet and rainy winter. Not good for spaghetti growing....

WSB

Better invest in spaghetti futures, then. Spaghetti ought to go sky high this year. ;D
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Ellemeno on April 01, 2008, 11:14:37 am: This thread REALLY helps me realize that we've been together for years.

Hey, the Tremblayan exodus to BetterMost began March 30th, 2006. Is there a commemorative thread anywhere about that? Happy 2nd anniversary, Buds!
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: DecaturTxCowboy on April 26, 2008, 11:31:59 pm: Believe it or not...I saw the original when Jack Parr hosted the Tonight Show.

Steve Allen > Jack Parr > Johnny Carson > Jay Leno.
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: southendmd on April 01, 2009, 08:39:48 am: bump
(http://www.daily-word-of-life.com/DailyWord/April_Fools_Day2.gif)
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 01, 2009, 08:51:04 am: You mean it's time to pick the spaghetti already? :o

How quickly time passes!

I wonder how the crop is this year? Should I invest in spaghetti futures, do you think?

:laugh:
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: MaineWriter on April 01, 2009, 10:25:44 am: Happy Spaghetti Day, everyone!

L
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Brown Eyes on April 01, 2009, 10:49:52 am: Quote from: MaineWriter on April 01, 2009, 10:25:44 am
Happy Spaghetti Day, everyone!

L

Now I have a craving to eat pasta for lunch!
:)
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: serious crayons on April 01, 2009, 11:05:48 am: I have pasta already made, in the fridge!

Happy Spaghetti Day, everyone!
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Ellemeno on April 01, 2009, 11:13:09 am: You on a spaghetti cleanse, Ang?

Happy Spaghetti Day, everyone!
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Brown Eyes on April 01, 2009, 11:28:21 am: Quote from: Ang Lee on April 01, 2009, 11:05:48 am
I have pasta already made, in the fridge!

Happy Spaghetti Day, everyone!

Wow! Ang, I'm so impressed that you've found his way to BetterMost! Thanks for diving right in to participate in Spaghetti Day!

Now that folks know you're here... I'm sure there will be lots of questions for you from curious Brokies. :D

I'll start with one... how deliberate was the use of coffee pots and buckets in so many of the shots and scenes in Brokeback?
And, here's another... what are your feelings about loaves of bread, and how they're packaged?
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Penthesilea on April 01, 2009, 11:30:18 am: Quote from: Vivien on April 01, 2009, 11:28:21 am
Wow! I'm so impressed that Ang has found his way to BetterMost! Thanks for diving right in to participate in Spaghetti Day!

Now that folks know you're here... I'm sure there will be lots of questions for you from curious Brokies. :D

I'll start with one... how deliberate was the use of coffee pots and buckets in so many of the shots and scenes in Brokeback?
And, here's another... what are your feelings about loaves of bread, and how they're packaged?

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Happy Spaghetti Day from Down Under ;D ;)
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Brown Eyes on April 01, 2009, 11:32:15 am: I have another question for Ang... how many takes were involved in shooting tent scene 1 and 2? There's been a lot of longstanding speculation about that.

:)
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 01, 2009, 12:09:28 pm: Quote from: Vivien on April 01, 2009, 11:32:15 am

I have another question for Ang... how many takes were involved in shooting tent scene 1 and 2? There's been a lot of longstanding speculation about that.

:)

I never did understand why boxes a soup are hard to pack. ...
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Ellemeno on April 01, 2009, 12:17:05 pm: Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 01, 2009, 12:09:28 pm
I never did understand why boxes a soup are hard to pack. ...

There is now a thread for these kinds of questions! That would be a great one, since a lot of us have been puzzled by that one.

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,35091.0.html
Title: Re: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 01, 2014, 09:10:10 am: I wonder what the word is on the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest for this year?

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