Marshmallow Farming
An evening pause: At first glance you might think this an April Fool’s piece, but it really isn’t. To be a good April Fool’s joke, you have to be fooled for at least a little while, something this does not do. What this video does do however is illustrate in an hilarious way the empty fake nature of television news. This is what they do normally, which has as much reality as this video.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
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This reminds me of the BBC’s legendary story on Swiss spaghetti farmers, run on April 1, 1957.
http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_swiss_spaghetti_harvest
Matt in AZ:
Good stuff!
from the article…
Spaghetti Harvest Haiku
“Three words in the news
Hint at untold suffering:
Spaghetti crop fails.”
I always wondered where those mythical American Marshmallows came from. I thought they were more like potatoes. By the way, this video is just like the daily “news” clips about global warming.
Matt in AZ: I posted the spaghetti farming story a few years ago here at BtB. No time now to search for it, but it is there as an April Fools evening pause.
In crazy Sweden, many news outlets skipped the April fools jokes this year. Saying that they don’t want to confuse people with fake news. Leftists don’t have any sense of humor. I suppose that is too individualistic for them. They are just zombies pretending to be important.
There are some hilarious clips from the Martha Stewart Show of various April Fool’s day skits she presented.
“Martha’s Prized Spaghetti Tree”
2009
https://youtu.be/xp7m8ykCK6c
(1:11)
They should use this video to apply for disaster relief. Lindsey Graham will lobby for it!
THIS IS NO APRIL FOOLS JOKE:
HOW DESPERATE THE DEMOCRATS?
Democrats are beginning to realize that their time is almost up and will now begin to propose strategies to counter their coming losses.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/04/17/washington-d-c-may-allow-16-year-olds-vote-president-2020-election/523301002/
Lowering the voting age to 16 years old, what do you think of this proposal?
Why not 12 years of age?
Anything to acquire or retain power, anything.