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Post subject: April Fools Jokes
Posted: Apr 01, 2007 - 06:50 AM
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Grow-your-own Viagra craze hits Britain's garden centres
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A chance discovery by a Berkshire allotment-holder that a plant widely available in garden centres has the same effect on men as Viagra has been confirmed by experts at one of the world's leading botanical institutions.
The plant is winter-flowering heather, and botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, many of them heather experts who have recognised the source of its active ingredient, now expect it to be the next must-have plant in British gardens. Demand is already high. Nurseries and garden centres in some areas are having trouble finding sufficient supplies as word spreads of the plant's unexpected properties.
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The latest gardening craze was triggered by a discovery by a 55-year-old furniture restorer, Michael Ford, on his allotment. He was always experimenting with drinks made from different plants and one day he tried an infusion from his winter-flowering heather. He said: "The effect was almost immediate. I had to stay in my potting shed for an hour or so before I could decently walk down the street."
He then contacted the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, famous for their work with the heather family, to see if they could offer an explanation. They could. Botanist Alan Bennell said: "This first surfaced when East European chemists reported finding a Viagra-type chemical in the floral tissues of winter-flowering heaths. They were able to isolate measurable amounts of material that is an analogue of the active principle in Viagra."
You will now please note today's date. Erica Carnea does not have this particular medical effect, though it looks just lovely massed in beds. |
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Posted: Apr 01, 2007 - 10:10 PM
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And here's another one from PageOneQ that caught me.
GONZALES RESIGNS IN DISGRACE, OUT
LESBIAN APPOINTED ATTY. GENERAL |
_________________ "If you want the freedom, the abilities, you have to find a way. Just don't be so passive. We are capable of so much more." -- Larry Kramer
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Post subject: Re: April Fools Jokes
Posted: Apr 01, 2007 - 10:33 PM
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Feral wrote:
You will now please note today's date. Erica Carnea does not have this particular medical effect, though it looks just lovely massed in beds.
I understand there are those who question whether this story really is a prank (leaving me no option but to gather that they actually are willing to believe that a tea made from winter-blooming heather will make a guy pop wood).
HA!
Really... the only credible medical use for Erica carnea tea is to cure thirst. I understand it works quite well for that. It also looks just lovely massed in planting beds. I've never been fond of the practice of using them as winter centerpieces. Sure... it's a pretty enough plant... but it's not that pretty and the warmth of most homes in the winter make the buds drop something fierce. Go with forced paperwhites instead (but don't try making tea out of them -- not only won't paperwhites make you pop wood, I think they just might poison you).
Some have even suggested that the Indy's April Fools joke this year was this story --
Bill of Rights for abused robots
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A robot rights movement is taking shape and preparing the world's first ethical guidelines for human/robot relationships.
The "Robot Ethics Charter", which will be unveiled later this year, will insist that humans should not exploit robots and should use them responsibly. It is expected to be a version of the classic three laws of robotics developed by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov. These are that robots must not harm people, and that they must obey orders and protect their own existence unless either conflicts with the first law.
Nope... afraid not. That one's real, and nearly a month old. |
_________________ "If you want the freedom, the abilities, you have to find a way. Just don't be so passive. We are capable of so much more." -- Larry Kramer
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Posted: Apr 01, 2007 - 11:00 PM
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Folks seem to be in the April Fools spirit this year.
HRC Hires Gay Ex-GOP Rep Gunderson as Co-Director |
_________________ "If you want the freedom, the abilities, you have to find a way. Just don't be so passive. We are capable of so much more." -- Larry Kramer
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