News The Telling of Tall Tales- April Fool's stories 2019

[Katie-Ellen]

News? Amusement? News As Amusement.

See any good ones...share them here

This one almost had me for a nano-second. I was actually thinking about it. You what? Radioactive mud from Hinckley Point? Duhhhhh

Tired. That's my excuse. Bad night. Rolls about spitting hay. Going eee-awww.

Snowdonia Gets to Glow

 

[Susan]

Here’s a roundup.

I’d wholeheartedly support the British Transport Police’s smelly food crackdown!

 

[Rich.]

This one made me smile (and dance, and scrrraaaatch) :

BBC News - Dubstep artist Skrillex could protect against mosquito bites

 

[Susan]

Hmm, Skrillex might have the success of every other mozzie repellent I've ever tried on holiday ...

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Here’s a roundup.

I’d wholeheartedly support the British Transport Police’s smelly food crackdown!

Eeeh, I nearly fell for the one about the French government and the debate about the outlawing of smelly Camembert. But there is...or there was a by law in Lille against the carrying of a very particular cheese in taxis...they called it 'the old stinker of Lille.'

Unless that was also an April Fool's factoid, from many years back?

 

[Susan]

@Katie-Ellen Hazeldine, my sister once bought me a shockingly smelly Camembert from a farmers’ market and travelled with it on a bus. It smelled like a decomposing corpse, though a delicious one.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

 

[AgentPete]

Anyone for Durian?

 

[Robinne Weiss]

@Katie-Ellen Hazeldine, my sister once bought me a shockingly smelly Camembert from a farmers’ market and travelled with it on a bus. It smelled like a decomposing corpse, though a delicious one.

There's a local lady--an Italian immigrant--who makes the most disgustingly delicious smelly cheeses...The sort you've got to triple-bag in the fridge, and should require biohazard labelling. MMMMM!