[–] gilleain 2y ago ↗ Ah, like 'Arkhan Land', rediscoverer of the Land Raider.(And of course, Jimmy Space).
[–] mayormcmatt 2y ago ↗ Adding this to my list of favorite April Fool's pranks -- my favorite being the recently featured islands of San Serriffe. [–] salmonfamine 2y ago ↗ And apparently they took place on subsequent April Fools Days -- 77' and 78'. Must have been a golden era for pranking. [–] throwup238 2y ago ↗ The Museum of Hoaxes publishes their own Top 100 April Fools list: https://hoaxes.org/aprilfool/
[–] salmonfamine 2y ago ↗ And apparently they took place on subsequent April Fools Days -- 77' and 78'. Must have been a golden era for pranking.
[–] throwup238 2y ago ↗ The Museum of Hoaxes publishes their own Top 100 April Fools list: https://hoaxes.org/aprilfool/
[–] joshabrown00 2y ago ↗ Haha, adding this to my list of funny academic pranks. This is right up there with the MIT balloon at the Harvard-Yale game.
[–] pyinstallwoes 2y ago ↗ How much of standardization or cannon is 'invented' in the same exact way? Very William S. Burroughs. [–] cafard 2y ago ↗ Well, or Thomas Pynchon.I grew up seeing Al Kaline in the baseball box scores, and much later reflected that I would have rolled my eyes had I seen the name in The Crying of Lot 49 or Gravity's Rainbow.
[–] cafard 2y ago ↗ Well, or Thomas Pynchon.I grew up seeing Al Kaline in the baseball box scores, and much later reflected that I would have rolled my eyes had I seen the name in The Crying of Lot 49 or Gravity's Rainbow.
[–] hyperhello 2y ago ↗ Why make the rule that capital letters only be used when the unit is named after a person, if the rule is discarded the instant it is inconvenient?
[–] cafard 2y ago ↗ I found myself wondering whether this was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Littr%C3%A9.
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[ 432 ms ] story [ 785 ms ] thread(And of course, Jimmy Space).
I grew up seeing Al Kaline in the baseball box scores, and much later reflected that I would have rolled my eyes had I seen the name in The Crying of Lot 49 or Gravity's Rainbow.