By 1957 most people were beginning to get television sets in the home and on 1st April the BBC broadcast one of its most famous ever programmes; a spoof documentary about spaghetti crops in Switzerland.
The Panorama programme, narrated by the normally deadly serious journalist Richard Dimbleby, featured a family from Ticino in Switzerland carrying out their annual spaghetti harvest.
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Love the sense of humour.. 😉
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It remains a great story!
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Such a classic, I bet the world knows about it! I remember reading about the spaghetti tree prank decades ago. Still a hoot!
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I still think that’s one of the better April 1st hoaxes!
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Good one this morning. Apparently Brexit was just one big joke!
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It it was, it’s not at all funny. I know we disagree about it, but I’m pretty sure no one sane thinks what’s going on right now makes any sense or is in any way humorous.
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Having said that, when I read about Dimbleby’s hoax in my teens, I didn’t have the faintest idea where spaghetti came from, (although trees seemed a bit bizarre.)
It occurred to me as well that Brexit was an April Fool’s joke, but that’s slightly wrong. It’s democracy that’s the April Fool’s joke. You can have democracy as long as you make the right decision. And as for abiding by the majority decision when you’ve lost, well, as the spoilt brat said on many occasions, “You cannot be serious!!”.
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This years Council Tax bill is another April Fool’s joke. Tory Government switching tax burden from central to local government and then taking the credit for tax cuts. They take us for complete fools!
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good to know about the spaghetti could still be used today! But 1957 oof not even born yet lol!!!
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So often you remind me!
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Wasn’t there an annual spoof on Nationwide or something like that?
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I think there was Brian but eventually it just became predictable. A few years ago WP played an April 1st prank by inflating every ones statistics x 100 or maybe even 1,000. It wasn’t that funny!
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I almost think I remember this, even though I couldn’t possibly. It must be the stuff of legends.
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I have seen it, but obviously not the original broadcast. I think it is something that everyone remembers weather they saw it or not!
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Hope you weren’t April fooled today, Andrew? 🙂 🙂 And please don’t mention that B thingy!
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I was careful to avoid all human contact.
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How fun:)
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