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By Charles Leroux
Chicago Tribune The BBC has proven a rich source of April first pranks. In 1980, it reported that Big Ben, the clock that is iconic of London, was going digital. In 1999, BBC Radio announced that the national anthem ("God Save the Queen") was to be replaced by an Euro anthem sung in German. The new anthem, played over the air, sampled various Beethoven works and was sung by pupils of a German school in London. Reportedly, Prince Charles's office telephoned to ask for a copy of the new anthem. St. James Palace later insisted that it had been playing along with the prank and had never been taken in by it. (more at http://www.myrtlebeachonline In 1976, British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on a radio program that a peculiar planetary movement would create an upward gravitational pull that would make people lighter that day -- and dozens of listeners phoned in to say the experiment was successful. ( more at http://www.townhall.com "The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year." - Mark Twain K3UK DX Cluster via telnet://cluster.dnyalias.org Other K3UK-CARC Groups DIGITALRADIO Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ MixW Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ Unsubscribe this group via [EMAIL PROTECTED] YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
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