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Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:23 pm to the808bass
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:23 pm to the808bass
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Solid contribution.
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Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:24 pm to jwuga
splain it.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:28 pm to CheeseburgerEddie
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Sidd Finch was a fictional baseball player, the subject of the notorious article and April Fools' Day hoax "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch" written by George Plimpton and first published in the April 1, 1985 issue of Sports Illustrated. According to Plimpton, Finch was raised in an English orphanage, learned yoga in Tibet, and could throw a fastball as fast as 168 miles per hour (270 km/h).
Here is a link to the original article.
The Curious Case Of Sidd Finch
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:29 pm to jwuga
No, I was being serious. I remember it. Golden troll.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:32 pm to the808bass
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:34 pm to jwuga
Does guy with the fake scholarship offer get honorable mention.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:38 pm to CheeseburgerEddie
I just watched the Max headroom Incident video on my phone at work and now I feel weird
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:49 pm to cas4t
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I just watched the Max headroom Incident
I did too. What were the people watching that show live thinking? That is so weird.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 2:58 pm to stevengtiger
I'm sure it creeped em the frick out 
Posted on 2/21/14 at 3:00 pm to cas4t
It is downright frightening.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 3:03 pm to stevengtiger
I agree Posted on 2/21/14 at 3:07 pm to CheeseburgerEddie
My personal favorite, Porky Bickar. Posted this on the other thread too.
One of the greatest April Fools pranks ever
This wasn't the only major prank he pulled but it's my favorite.
One of the greatest April Fools pranks ever
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Residents of Sitka, Alaska woke on the morning of Monday April 1, 1974 to a bright, clear day. They could see right across Sitka Sound to Kruzof Island, where the familiar sight of Mount Edgecumbe, a volcano dormant for 400 years, loomed. But today something was different about the view. A menacing plume of black smoke was rising from the crater. It looked like the volcano was preparing to blow!
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Concerned residents spilled out of their homes onto the streets to gaze up at the volcano. Calls poured in to local authorities. The Coast Guard commander radioed the Admiral in Juneau who ordered a chopper be sent out to investigate.
As the Coast Guard pilot approached Mt. Edgecumbe, the plume of smoke grew in size. Finally he was right above it, and he peered down into the crater. At first, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. He looked more closely, and then he laughed. Stacked in the cone of the volcano, burning with a greasy flame, was a huge pile of old tires. And spray-painted in the snow beside the tires, in 50-foot-high black letters, were the words "APRIL FOOL.
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Porky's favorite response to the prank came in 1980. He received a letter from an attorney in Denver, inside of which was a clipping from the Denver Post with a photo of Mt. St. Helens erupting. Attached was a note that read, "This time, you little bastard, you've gone too far."
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The prank succeeded beyond Porky's wildest dreams. News of it got picked up by the Associated Press and ran in papers around the world.
The reaction of people in Sitka, once they realized the volcano wasn't really erupting, was almost uniformly positive. Even the Coast Guard wasn't too mad about the stunt. Porky met the Admiral years later at a Fourth of July party. As the Admiral walked over to meet him, Porky was afraid he was going to be chewed out, but instead the Admiral told Porky he thought the prank was classic
This wasn't the only major prank he pulled but it's my favorite.
This post was edited on 2/21/14 at 3:09 pm
Posted on 2/21/14 at 3:11 pm to RogerTheShrubber
wow that might be the best April Fool's day prank I've ever heard of
Posted on 2/21/14 at 3:14 pm to RogerTheShrubber
You know...I may give the title to Porky Bickar.
I'm surprised he wasn't sued for damages related to panic situations that occurred due to his prank.
I'm surprised he wasn't sued for damages related to panic situations that occurred due to his prank.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 3:17 pm to cas4t
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wow that might be the best April Fool's day prank I've ever heard of
It's usually listed as one of the best hoaxes ever.
The same guy found out a theater owner in Petersburg, which is a fishing village of Norwegian ancestors, decided to stop giving children a free matinee on Saturdays. He printed off realistic looking tickets, flew to Petersburg and dropped them on the streets for the kids in Petersburg to retrieve. When hundreds of kids showed up for their free matinee, the owner couldn't turn them down.
He did this for a couple of weeks til the owner relented and started the free matinee again.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 3:21 pm to RogerTheShrubber
who has time to do shite like that?Posted on 2/21/14 at 3:29 pm to cas4t
Back in those days guys would work half a year or so and make a shite ton of money. Somehow we decided to improve on that...
In the 90's we added to his flamingo collection in Peril Strait outside of Sitka. Another guy and I put a dozen more and it looks like a huge flock of pink flamingos. Or did, think the Forest Svc got rid of them.
Used to tell cruise ship tourists they were a cold weather species of flamingo called "Pinkus Flamingus Walmarticus."
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Porky was a talented logger and was famous for the ending act he performed every year at the All-Alaska Logging Championships. He felled the spar tree so that it hit a target on the ground. The target was usually a hard hat, but sometimes it was a bottle of hooch.
Porky was also an artist who worked with metal. One of his projects was the fashioning of heavy steel outline maps of Alaska out of pipe left over from the Alaska oil pipeline. He gave these as gifts to friends. He also made metal cutouts of moose, deer, and bears, which he placed in public locations around town, as a kind of guerrilla art project.
But Porky was best known as a prankster — a reputation he enjoyed even before the 1974 stunt. Some of his other pranks included using a backhoe to drop an entire tree in the middle of a friend’s driveway, placing plastic flamingoes in trees to confuse tour boats looking for wildlife, and holding a chainsaw sale at his store — one for the price of two! But it was the eruption of Mt. Edgecumbe that made him a legend throughout Alaska.
In the 90's we added to his flamingo collection in Peril Strait outside of Sitka. Another guy and I put a dozen more and it looks like a huge flock of pink flamingos. Or did, think the Forest Svc got rid of them.
Used to tell cruise ship tourists they were a cold weather species of flamingo called "Pinkus Flamingus Walmarticus."
Posted on 2/21/14 at 3:29 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 2/21/14 at 5:48 pm to mizzoukills
Christianity
Not really, but can't believe it hadn't been said yet.
Not really, but can't believe it hadn't been said yet.
Posted on 2/21/14 at 5:49 pm to mizzoukills
Peadough
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