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Apr 2, '08 3:28 AM
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The BBC played this yesterday on the Breakfast News, hailing it as a remarkable discovery. Flying penguins. Alex and I were captivated.
They told us this morning it was an elaborate April Fool's Day joke.
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viviennek wrote on Apr 2

lol, i love that the bbc went to so much effort to hoax us. i missed it yesterday, but probably would've fallen for it

pandorasbox83 wrote on Apr 2

ahhh, i like that. wish it was real

welshdoug wrote on Apr 2

I wasn't so "Gull-"ible.....

harmaceutical wrote on Apr 2

That is absolutely fantastic! Bravo BBC!

tallyknight wrote on Apr 2

Maybe one of the stars of Monty Python presenting should have given it away, but nooo...I fell for it :P

jujukitten wrote on Apr 2

Great fun, lol :) If only it were true :)

tallyknight wrote on Apr 2

I know it. They looked so cute!

mitchylr wrote on Apr 2

Nice one Beeb!! Love it when big organisations join in the April Fool's fun. My ISP (virgin.net) , on their news page, published a great article titled "US Treasury to scrap Dollar in favour of Euro". The funniest bit was in the comments....some people actually believed it!!! LOL.

magsny73 wrote on Apr 2

Sadly, I would have fallen for it too....lol

That's a huge April fools joke to play, I think it's awesome they did that!

tallyknight wrote on Apr 2

lolol Mitch, I can totally imagine people falling for that one. That's awesome.
Mags, the BBC are kind of known for doing this. They did one many years ago that persuaded a lot of people that spaghetti grew on trees. :P

pandorasbox83 wrote on Apr 2

I really do get scared around april fools day as I am the biggest gullible person around. I never realised when the joke is on me.

magsny73 wrote on Apr 2, edited on Apr 2

Well, I definitely wouldn't haven fallen for that one....lol....being Italian and all....lol

welshdoug wrote on Apr 2

tallyknight said

everyone knows that spaghetti is mined...

tallyknight wrote on Apr 2

Steph, I'm the same way, completely. It just doesn't occur to me that I'm being tricked.

Mags, it would seem obvious to you :p But this was either the back end or the 70's or early 80's here, and pasta I guess wasn't that popular here yet? I'll have to see if I can find the clip.

lol Doug, you mean they lied?!

tallyknight wrote on Apr 2

My bad, it's even older than I thought...1957 to be precise.

utroukx wrote on Apr 2

lol that's cute. i probably would have fallen for that, too.

magsny73 wrote on Apr 2

Is this where the joke of spaghetti growing on trees comes from?!
They made it so believable, I may have even been fooled....LOL

windin wrote on Apr 2

Spy Man had this posted on his blog yesterday and I totally knew it had to be an April Fool's Joke. But they did an awesome job with it---it was really believable! Gotta love the BBC for having a sense of humor like that.

But yeah....the math doesn't add up penquins....flying.....nahhhhh......

I even missed that it was a Pythonite doing the presenting!

windin wrote on Apr 2

that spaghetti crop video was hilarious! Wow....that's impressive....

hollykins wrote on Apr 2

LOL That is so funny! What a great gag! It looked so real, and I even knew ahead of time it wasn't :)

tallyknight wrote on Apr 2

Amazing what they can do with computers nowadays. I was watching the response on the breakfast news this morning, apparently they had a ton of emails grumbling about taxpayers money being spent on sending people to the antarctic to make a joke (we have to pay a TV licence fee here). So they showed how it was done, all on a blue screen with the antarctic background added in later, and computer animated penguins...so clever.

windin wrote on Apr 2

tallyknight said

apparently they had a ton of emails grumbling about taxpayers money being spent on sending people to the antarctic to make a joke (we have to pay a TV licence fee here)

Don't people have better things to grumble about? geez......

tallyknight wrote on Apr 2

Oh, we're british, we'll complain about anything :P
Especially the weather.

hollykins wrote on Apr 2

hehehe... it IS amazing. I should be so smart as that!

hollykins wrote on Apr 2

ROFL... Just watched the Spaghetti gag!

tallyknight wrote on Apr 2

Glad you enjoyed, Holly :)

perv33 wrote on Apr 19

You rock :)

tallyknight wrote on Apr 19

You do :D I love you :-*

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