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  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    Clarkson green (well for today, anyway).

    Wonderful Page 3 coverage in today's Grauniad. I'll say no more.
  • Richard Tarleton

    #2
    A better effort than Chazza, who still hasn't quite grasped it.

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26455

      #3
      Whereas King's College, Cambridge have taken it to their hearts.....
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • Richard Tarleton

        #4

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        • Tevot
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 1011

          #5
          Hello there,

          A real shame that the Guardian telegraphs it as it were I remember with great fondness the great report in the Guardian on April 1st 1977 about life on San Serriffe... I had no idea what my dad and brother were laughing about. Then again - at the time I was a rather unsophisticated 11 year old who thought that the ultimate prank was telling people that their shoe laces were undone

          Happy days

          Each month we provide resource material that can be used in the classroom. This month we are looking at the Guardian’s most successful April Fool’s joke, San Serriffe


          Best Wishes,

          Tevot

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          • Bryn
            Banned
            • Mar 2007
            • 24688

            #6
            Originally posted by Tevot View Post
            Hello there,

            A real shame that the Guardian telegraphs it as it were
            There's no such telegraphy in the print edition. There is it is presented straight.

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26455

              #7
              Enjoyed this one:


              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • Serial_Apologist
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 37346

                #8
                I thought Today's attempt at an April Fool, "seriously" considering the idea of enlarging goal posts to overcome the problem of hitting the crossbar, pretty feeble. I'm sure it's been used before.

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26455

                  #9
                  Classic FM had a larffff

                  I think R3's equivalent was to manoeuvre Rob Cowan into having to pronounce "Augustin Dumay" again... No, wait - that was yesterday!
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • Alain Maréchal
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 1286

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Tevot View Post
                    at the time I was a rather unsophisticated 11 year old who thought that the ultimate prank was telling people that their shoe laces were undone
                    When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

                    Grow up, all of you, and that applies especially to broadcasters and newspaper editors.

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                    • Tevot
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 1011

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Alain Maréchal View Post
                      When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

                      Grow up, all of you, and that applies especially to broadcasters and newspaper editors.
                      Hello there,

                      If only you Alain or St Paul had given me such advice. Things would have turned out differently

                      And Bryn - I'm glad the print version of the Guardian didn't give the game away.

                      To be honest I thought the April Fool's joke was the article about Rosamund Pike being the next James Bond



                      Best Wishes,

                      Tevot

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                      • MrGongGong
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 18357

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Alain Maréchal View Post
                        When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
                        .
                        Like believing in sky fairies and other such nonsense you mean?

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                        • Tevot
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 1011

                          #13
                          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                          Like believing in sky fairies and other such nonsense you mean?
                          Steady on Gongers... Just look on it as beautiful poetry....

                          albeit well beyond Clarkson's ken...

                          Best Loaves and Fishes,

                          Tevot

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                          • jean
                            Late member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 7100

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                            There's no such telegraphy in the print edition. There is it is presented straight.
                            I wondered about that - someone suggested that if they hadn't flagged it in the online version, Fox News might have picked it up.

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                            • Tevot
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 1011

                              #15
                              Originally posted by jean View Post
                              I wondered about that - someone suggested that if they hadn't flagged it in the online version, Fox News might have picked it up.

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