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1. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

2. Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

3. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.


4. The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his orders.

5. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.


6. When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.


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7. The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.


8. A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.


9. The world will never run out of maths teachers because they always multiply.

10. When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.


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I'm sure most (if not all) of you have cottoned onto the real story behind yesterdays post. Indeed there is nothing actually wrong with the skywalk. (Yes, it is real the only fabrication was the closing down again part.) So after yesterdays post I thought enlighten you with some other April fools day pranks of the past.

* The Guardian printed a supplement in 1977 praising the location of a fictional resort - San Serriffe, its two main islands (Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse), its capital (Bodoni), and its leader (General Pica). Intrigued readers were later disappointed to learn that San Serriffe (sans serif) did not exist except as references to typeface terminology.
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Fantastic WORD Wrangling!

March 31st 2007 00:25
Every now and again the Washington Post's invites readers to take part in a competition whereby you take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and then give a new definition. Here are some of the previous winners:
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1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realise it was your money to start with.

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Previous Daylight Saving Time Issues

March 23rd 2007 00:25
With Daylight Saving Time ending this weekend for some states of Australia, (That’s right boys and girls – be prepared to put your watches and clocks BACKWARDS one hour.)
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I thought I’d remind you all of some relevant mishaps that can be found at webexhibits.org.
These are occasions when Daylight Saving Time caused slightly more than an issue or two due to the actual changing of the time.

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