Media April Fool's Day Ten classic prank-英语作文2000字

　　【参考译文】：从种植意大利面的电视新闻到树木的左撇子汉堡的广告，媒体在四月的愚人节故事的传统有着神秘和奇妙的历史。

　　这里有几个高层十四月愚人节的恶作剧会脱落，通过我们网站的知名度，荒诞的恶作剧博物馆的判断，和被愚弄的人数。

　　意大利通心粉收获的骗局列表顶部。1957，一个英国广播公司电视节目中宣布，由于暖冬和通心粉象鼻虫几乎消灭，瑞士的农民们享受意大利面的丰收。瑞士农民从树上摘下股节目播出后，很多人打电话想知道如何种植自己的意大利面在家。

　　即时彩色电视机是瑞典第三。在1962瑞典只有一个电视频道，而且是黑白的。该站的技术专家在新闻中宣布，由于最新技术的开发成功，观众们可以把他们现有的设置要拉一个尼龙袜在屏幕上得到的彩色图片。

　　美国前总统尼克松的复出是放置在第六。1992，美国国家公共广播电台宣布，李察尼克松再度竞选总统。他的新竞选口号是，“我没做错什么，我不会再这么做了。”他们甚至有尼克松宣布竞选的录音剪辑。听众潮水般的电话表达他们的愤怒。尼克松的声音其实是，丰富的小演员。

　　1998，通讯命名的新墨西哥人科学和理性刊登了一篇文章，阿拉巴马州已经通过了圆周率的值从3.14159改为“圣经”值3。

　　汉堡王，美国快餐连锁店，在1998出版的“左撇子汉堡宣布引进美国今天的整版广告，”专为32000000左撇子的美国人。根据广告，这种汉堡包含原始成分相同，但香料被旋转180度。链表示它收到的新的汉堡数千份，以及原有的“右手”版本的命令。

　　发现杂志在1995日宣布，备受尊敬的生物学家，Discover Magazine（意为四月傻瓜），在南极洲发现了一个新的物种：热裸体钻冰虫。这种生物被描述为在他们的头上，发热具有骨板，使得动物高速钻冰。

　　英国著名天文学家帕特里克穆尔宣布在电台1976，上午9点47分，一生一次的天文事件中，冥王星将从木星后面，会导致引力组合将减少地球的引力。穆尔告诉听众，如果他们跳在空中的行星对齐的时刻，会有一种飘浮感。人打电话报告的感觉感觉上。

　　【正文】：

　　From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to advertisements for the left-handed burger, the tradition of April Fool's Day stories in the media has a weird and wonderful history.

　　Here are several of the top ten April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the US website of Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped.

　　Swiss spaghetti harvest tops the hoax list. In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home.

　　Instant color TV sets in Sweden comes as the third. Sweden in 1962 had only one television channel, which broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to receive color pictures by pulling a nylon stocking over the screen.

　　US ex-president Nixon's comeback is placed at sixth. In 1992, US National Public Radio announced that Richard Nixon was running for president again. His new campaign slogan was, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again." They even had clips of Nixon announcing his candidacy. Listeners flooded the show with calls expressing their outrage. Nixon's voice actually turned out to be that of impersonator Rich Little.

　　In 1998, a newsletter titled New Mexicans for Science and Reason carried an article that the state of Alabama had voted to change the value of pi from 3.14159 to the "Biblical value" of 3.0.

　　Burger King, an American fast-food chain, published a full-page advertisement in USA Today in 1998 announcing the introduction of the "Left-Handed Whopper," specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new burger included the same ingredients as the original, but the condiments were rotated 180 degrees. The chain said it received thousands of requests for the new burger, as well as orders for the original "right-handed" version.

　　Discover Magazine announced in 1995 that a highly respected biologist, Aprile Pazzo (Italian for April Fool), had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. The creatures were described as having bony plates on their heads that became burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speed.

　　Noted British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on the radio in 1976 that at 9:47 am, a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event, in which Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, would cause a gravitational alignment that would reduce the Earth's gravity. Moore told listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment of the planetary alignment, they would experience a floating sensation. Hundreds of people called in to report feeling the sensation.