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In Honor Of April Fools Day

Sidd FinchSidd Finch pitched wearing one work Take a trip back to 1985, where George Plimpton regaled us all with a tale about one Sidd Finch. In retrospect, the idea that someone could throw a ball 168 miles per hour should've been a tip-off. I always thought the best part of this story happened 16 years later, when Peter Gammons wrote about another wunderkind named Toe Nash. Everyone was convinced that it was another Sidd Finch story. But, in fact, there was a Toe Nash who was signed by the Devil Rays. Unfortunately, like many Tampa pla read
Top 100 April Fools Jokes of All Time
The Curious Case of Sidd Finch.Sidd Finch was played by Joe Berton, #1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC dipl read
愚人节十大经典恶作剧
Sidd Finch pitched wearing one work Sidd Finch Did he or didn�t he pitch 愚人节十大经典恶作剧 by Liu Miao 1,瑞士意面大丰收 1957年的4月1日,据BBC旗下一个颇有声望的新闻节目《全景》报道,归功于一个温和的冬季,以及令人讨厌的”意大利面虫”的消失,瑞士迎来了一场意大利面大丰收,电视里还播出了瑞士农民从树上”收割”意大利面的景象。许多观众因此而打电话给BBC,问是否自己也能种类似的农作物,对此,BBC回答,可以将”意大利面苗”栽种到番茄酱罐子里,然后开始祈祷吧! 2,神奇棒球投手 1985年4月版的《体育画报》报道了一位名叫Sidd Finch的神奇棒球投手,虽然他从未打过棒球,掷球的时速却可以达到168英里,百发百中,这比当时的世界纪录快了65英里,报道称,Sidd将效力于Mets队,而大喜过望的Mets队粉丝们则为了这个虚拟的人物差点儿打爆了《体育画报》的电话。 3,”方便”彩电 1962年,瑞典尚且只有一家电视频道,并且是黑白的,该电视台的技术专家Kjell Stensson则在电视上宣布,多亏一项新技术,大家可以方便地把现有的黑白电视设备迅速转为彩色,操作办法很简单:只要在电视机前拉一只尼龙袜即可,Kjell Ste read
April Fool’s Day Hoaxes, Revisited
Sidd Finch DivisionThe greatest baseball pitcher of all Some things never change, and one of those things is this list of the greatest April Fool’s Day hoaxes. From the vaults at the Museum of Hoaxes, the list of the top 10 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes, as judged by notoriety, absurdity, and the number of people duped! Enjoy. #1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti read
April 1
1) The Curious Case of Sidd Finch by Enjoy some of my favorite �Sidd April 1: General Interest 1700 : April Fools tradition popularized On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools' Day by playing practical jokes on each other. Although the day, also called All Fools' Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools' Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, read