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MaineWriter:
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

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUvNnmFtgI[/youtube]

delalluvia:
What a bunch of nickle-heads to fall for that!!! :D

Jeff Wrangler:
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

Aloysius J. Gleek:
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!

MaineWriter:
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/

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

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