Sidd Finch and the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest

[Hardbopjazz]

What great April Fool's jokes these were. Who remembers these two? I wasn't around for the Spaghetti Harvest, but I recall the Sidd Finch one real weel. Being from NY and a fan of the NY Mets, I had some friends that were Yankee fans and they were jealous that Finch was going to pitch for the Mets.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/sidd_finch

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/the_swiss_spaghetti_harvest

Another funny

AA

Another funny one.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/af_database/permalink/hotheaded_naked_ice_borers/

I recall a few jokes here on April Fools.

Edited April 1, 2013 by Hardbopjazz

[A Lark Ascending]

This looks like one being attempted today:

German flea circus hit by freeze

[king ubu]

Oh, I love the spaghetti harvest one!

Those were the days when lots of Italian "workers" came to Switzerland as so-called "saisonniers", meaning they were allowed in for eight or nine months per year (and not allowed to bring family with them). Once the Swiss realized that most of these Italians were even squarer in many respects than they themselves, that started - very slowly - to change ... when I was a kid, Italians were still called "tschingge" (derived from cinque which seems to be some exclamation made in some game?) ... but then the mess in Yugoslavia started, Tamilian fugitives came here in big numbers and most Italians had actually long since became part of society anyway, so ... but yeah, the spaghetti ... I grew up on pasta (not potatoes, which would be - or would have been - more regular) and always loved Italian food. You can get good Italian food all over Zurich (and I guess in most other places in Switzerland, too, even though by now the folks in the kitchen might be Turks or Tamilians or Vietnamese).

[A Lark Ascending]

Apparently the flea story is not an April Fool:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21993582