reply to post by biggie smalls
There were also plans to encourage British parents "to serve small volumes of red wine with meals to children as young as seven or eight," it
said, in a piece bylined Avril de Poisson -- a play on the French for April Fool.
This in itself isn't terrible. If children knew to respect alcohol at a young age, there wouldn't be such problems with alcoholism and late night
partying in the teenage and later years. The quantity is a bit undesirable, but wine/beer itself should probably start at a much younger age than
21.
I think this is the best part:
But the British weekly New Scientist took a new tack on the tradition by publishing stories on its website that seemed so bizarre that they could
only be April Fools, but were in fact genuine.
One was a study by pair of Italian physicists who came up with a quantum explanation for poltergeists -- the ghostly phenomenon whereby objects fly
around the room, apparently of their own accord. Another was about how surgery could transform your arms into wings.
"They are April Fools that aren't," the magazine told AFP, as comments piled up on its website from baffled and occasionally irritated
readers.
People may have thought they were being lied to, but in reality, the truth really is stranger than fiction.
