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The funniest joke in history? (Read 796 times)

Mar 31^st, 2006 at 11:14am

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Well tomorrow is April Fools Day, on this day in 1957 the BBC stitched up most of the population of the UK...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/april/1/newsid_4362000/4362667.stm

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #1 - Mar 31^st, 2006 at 11:28am

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Absolutely Brilliant. Grin

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Reply #2 - Mar 31^st, 2006 at 11:45am

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In the late seventies/early eighties, there was an ad on television that ran along the same vein. I was teasing a (somewhat gullible) young lady in my office on it, and she said she would ask her husband, because she was sure that spaghetti wasn't grown on trees.

She asked the General Manager in the office who confirmed it ...

The next day, she came up to me amazed, that yes, her husband had confirmed it.

I kept a straight face. Of course, I didn't know her husband, didn't know how to contact him or anything, so we weren't in cahoots.

She was not too amused with all of us a few days later, though as she found out that we all had pulled her leg... but still laughed it off!

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Reply #3 - Mar 31^st, 2006 at 12:52pm

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I'm just re-reading Spitfire Offensive by Wing Co. RWF Sampson and there is this priceless bit when they are on dusk standby and the Ops Room called and one of the chaps was saying "We can't go up as the big elevator we use to get the planes in the sky is broken" and the young WAAF believed him until someone obviously told her that this was nonsense so she rang back to check their status again to which he replied "We can't fly as we haven't received our special night-flying petrol" she swallowed this one and in the end the Ops Duty Officer rang back asking if "He'd stop being an idiot and please get on with the war" Grin

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #4 - Mar 31^st, 2006 at 2:40pm

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It doesn't sound much more far fetched than sausage trees, which we have in abundance in Florida.

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Reply #5 - Mar 31^st, 2006 at 3:24pm

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I wonder if Paul and Doug were fooled by the spaghetti hoax in 1957 Grin

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Reply #6 - Mar 31^st, 2006 at 3:46pm

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I wonder if Paul and Doug were fooled by the spaghetti hoax in 1957 Grin

I don't know, but it does seem like something they would have come up with first!

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Reply #7 - Mar 31^st, 2006 at 4:35pm

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I wonder if Paul and Doug were fooled by the spaghetti hoax in 1957 Grin

I don't know about Paul but we never had a TV set in 1957. Not sure I'd have known what spaghetti was then either. Roll Eyes

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Reply #8 - Apr 2^nd, 2006 at 6:07pm

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I hadn't hard of this joke...but my parets would always crack up when they told me "Spaghetti doesn't grow on trees you know!".

Steve (Silver Fox) Daly

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