Re: What a let down. . .


Pat Flannery wrote:
> 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

At that time, the most unlikely headline would probably be:

"Wallpaper hanger to be next Chancellor of Germany"

8-O


Rusty

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