Having read about the Prince Charles story and it's purported appropriateness (is there such a word ?) on a day like today, lets hear about how your local dailies around the world chose to dupe gullible readers.

Last year, ours in Toronto ran a hilarious story about how city council has set aside tens of thousnads of dollars to build special sidewalks for squirrels due to the high mortality rate and species endangerment of the NA black squirrel from traffic accidents. It was so seriously written that people were phoning in to opine on the matter and you wouldn't believe how many were in support of it !

This year, being a Friday and Movie review Day, a four-out-of-four-star rating and review (with pictures) appeared for a fantastic remake of 'Casablanca 2005' starring Ashton Kutcher, Paris Hilton and a piano playing Bernie Mac.
The performances apparently were fantastic, Oscar worthy perfections of the craft, and personally, I'm cancelling all plans for the weekend to go see this movie...

And you ?.....

Newspaper headline I wrote for a student coop I'd lived in:

"Research finds stainless steel bars cause cancer in laboratory mice"!!

BC

Headless body found. Murder is suspected.

I remember many years ago some news program showing a feature on the spaghetti harvest in Italy. They had spaghetti taped up in trees with the happy Italian peasants picking it.

Many people inquired about buying their own spaghetti tree.

one of our radio stations announced it was going Christmas Carols 24/7/365...why only have the beautiful music a couple of weeks a year?

FYI, the spaghetti harvest was on the BBC. Similarly, I recall an NPR story about rich veins of liquid chees being mined in Wisconsin.

Please don't ask what a "chee" is. You know what I meant to type...

Local paper printed the front page upside down. So-so cute, BUT...
Cigalechanta's post brought back a memory of an absolutely true incident that happened here about 10 yrs. ago. Two friends got into an argument which resulted in one killing the other. To avoid immediate detection, the man cut off the dead man's head and hands and discarded them miles apart. And left the man's driver's license in his pants pocket.

Mathieu, I love your Toronto stories (if there's that much sense of humor in T. I want to move there--you don't have any cold weather, do you?).

I was hoping to find a link on the net to the movie review, but I guess they are just saving it for Canadians.

LVSue: I hate to tell you this, but there is an awful lot of cold weather in Toronto...

But if you really want to see the "Casablanca" review, go to

www.thestar.com

You have to register, then go to movie reviews and it's the fourth or fifth item.

Is it true Madonna will be cast as Mother Theresa in a film?

Mimi, I'm sure that will happen just as soon as a pig flies past my window!

BC

Kathy, that was my April fool joke but I do have a ceramic flying pig that you can have.

LVSue, Toronto maybe be cold(ish) for 5 months of the year, but it's full of people with warm hearts (and great food). So come on down.

Eloise : Thanks for providing the link

Look out, bookchick, I'm donning my wings!

Eloise, thanks for the link!

Mathieu, don't you mean come on up? I might plan it for July when the temp's 115.

Radio story about moving July 31 & Aug 31 to February to even things out.

Hah! I laughed out loud reading the review—it's going to all my nearest and dearest. Thanks again for the tip, Mathieu, and the link, Eloise.