Comedy: April 01, 2015 Issue [#6911]
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 This week: March 32nd
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions

About This Newsletter

Hello fun writers and readers. I am Annette Author Icon, your guest editor for this issue.


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Letter from the editor

March 32nd


In Celebration of the Most Foolish Holiday. Because it's a Holiday.


Every year, on April First, we celebrate being funny and foolish. In some countries, I know for a fact about France, the national news outlets go as far as creating elaborate hoax news. Once, I was treated to the evening news presenting three improbable bits of news as fact. In the same telecast, they advised that one of those was a hoax and asked the viewers to call in which one was the joke news.

This means two things:

1. There are a great many things happening all over the world that are so unbelievable, you might think them a joke, but they are true.
2. A hoax perpetrated by news in a believable manner can briefly turn into fact in people's minds.

To be honest, I forgot the two bits of news that were odd, but real. I do remember the hoax news. The TV reporter showed several helicopters removing the top half of the Eiffel Tower and ostensibly flying it to a special facility for cleaning.

Let it be known that I also remember thinking that the above scenario was more believable than the two bits of news that turned out to be real.

The moral: When watching TV on April First, reading the newspaper, participating on Writing.Com - watch out! Be very careful. If it looks to be too strange, just close your eyes and try again. If it still looks strange, come again on March 33rd. Everything will be fine and back to normal then.



Editor's Picks

 
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A Fish Out of Holy Water Open in new Window. (13+)
Becoming Catholic can scare the hell out of you. April 2013 West Side Writers
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As a kid, we loved him. His birthday was April 17, 1937. Wow!
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1st Place winner (April 2010 Short Shots contest).
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A financial stress limerick for the Bad to the Bone contest.
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A cinquain poem for the Writer's cramp entery for April 1. winner!
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 Hogwarts Howler - The Review Fool, 2008 Open in new Window. (13+)
The reviews I gave as "Hogwarts Howler" on April 1. Thanks, Kimchi.
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Round 3 FINALE Entry - April Anti-SLAM! Quintella about bad luck.
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