--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > <fairfieldlife@> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > From a friend: > > > > > > > > Just heard that the Raja project thang is going bankrupt. > > > > > > How long until we see 'Raja crowns' on Ebay? > > > > > > And who on earth would bid for them? > > > > My maximum bid: $150.00 > > I'd bet that Burger King would bid on at least > one, for their corporate museum, to be placed > on display right next to the Left-Handed Whopper*. > > * from The Top 100 April Fools Day Hoaxes of All Time: > > #8: The Left-Handed Whopper > In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement > in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item > to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed > for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the > advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients > as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, > etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for > the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following > day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that > although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of > customers had gone into restaurants to request the new > sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, > "many others requested their own 'right handed' version." > > http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/ > > Be sure to check out #10, which contains evidence of > levitation, #2, in which a baseball pitcher perfects > his 168 mph throw in a Tibetan monastery, and #1, the > annual Swiss spaghetti harvest. :-) >
Great site! Thanks for linking to it! Of course, they didn't include the best one of all. I am referring, of course, to my post about a month ago where I trashed Jimmy Carter, Habitat-for-Humanity, and the peanut industry in general...you, Barry, were the only one who noticed that it was, indeed, a put-on on my part... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
