Remember Sports Illustrated's article on "Sidd Finch", the Bhuddist monk turned baseball pitcher... The subtitle for that story was
“He’s a
pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd’s deciding about yoga...” The first letter of
each of the words in that subtitle spells “H-a-p-p-y A-p-r-i-l F-o-o-l-s D-a-y.
Then there was the story in Discover Magazine about the "Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer" which was said to be able to melt ice with a hot bone in its
head "faster than a Penguin can waddle" (as quoted from the magazine). The discoverer of this creature? Dr. Aprile Pazzo, a name which is Italian
for "April Fool".
But my favorite has to be the BBC documentary made one April fools day back in the 1950s about the Swiss Spaghetti tree harvest. They went as far as
to actually show footage of Swiss women picking the "Ripe" spaghetti from the "spaghetti trees"
[edit on 4/1/2008 by Soylent Green Is People]
