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Earth_First

(14,910 posts)
Tue Apr 1, 2014, 10:05 AM Apr 2014

April Fool's (1957)

The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest...



The BBC has received a mixed reaction to a spoof documentary broadcast this evening about spaghetti crops in Switzerland.

The hoax Panorama programme, narrated by distinguished broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, featured a family from Ticino in Switzerland carrying out their annual spaghetti harvest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/newsid_2819000/2819261.stm
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