Re: What a let down. . .



Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

But isn't that plausibility the whole basis of a good April Fool?
And you need a professional site. http://www.nature.com can get away with it (though their one wasn't all that plausible :-) but if one appeared on http://www.enterprisemission.com/ you wouldn't be able to tell ("Face on Mars is Natural Feature", perhaps ?)


That reminds me of the German newspaper in the inflation ravaged Germany of the Weimar Republic which ran the contest to find who could write the most unlikely newspaper headline.
The winner?
"Archduke Ferdinand found alive; war a mistake."

Pat
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