|
Jump to navigation
ArchivesGreatest praying Mantis pic ever04/26/07Beer Ad04/24/07
If your kid has seizures...cash in04/18/07![]() At what point do we say a family is abusing their son's health issues? A boy who has seizures fell over during a pickup basketball game, almost died, and now his family is sueing the school district because they didn't have adequate supervision. It turns out that he already had a bad siezure once before and so the school district offered, free of charge, to bus him to a school that had a full time nurse on staff. The family decline saying it was too far away from home (with no opportunity for them to cash in). Beep for God - Beep for Satan04/09/07![]() One neighbor puts up a Beep for Christ sign. One neighbor puts up a Beep for Satan sign. The holy war...begins. "His sign is not bothering me, but I know it's bothering Jesus," Soden said. Top Ten Movie Monkeys04/05/07Why Saudia Arabia may be right in keeping women out of the driver's seat04/04/07Arnold Scharzenegger - Then and Now04/03/07In honor of April 1st04/01/07
#5: San Serriffe
![]() #75: World to End Tomorrow On March 31, 1940 the Franklin Institute issued a press release stating that the world would end the next day. The release was picked up by radio station KYW which broadcast the following message: "Your worst fears that the world will end are confirmed by astronomers of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 P.M. Eastern Standard Time tomorrow. This is no April Fool joke. Confirmation can be obtained from Wagner Schlesinger, director of the Fels Planetarium of this city." The public reaction was immediate. Local authorities were flooded with frantic phone calls. The panic only subsided after the Franklin Institute assured people that it had made no such prediction. The prankster responsible for the press release turned out to be William Castellini, the Institute's press agent. He had intended to use the fake release to publicize an April 1st lecture at the institute titled "How Will the World End?" Soon afterwards, the Institute dismissed Castellini. I give you the top 100 hoaxes of ALL TIME. That's not really true since it doesn't include the post-Stanford/California "greatest ending in sports history" newspaper hoax. |
||
| Blog by Nucleus | Design by Ringtones | Chinese Bad Words - 破壞性的自由 | Tunisian Bad Words - الحرّيّة التّخريبيّة | ||