Is THIS the best April Fools story the Guardian can come up with?!?

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,926005,00.html

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Monday, 31 March 2003 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Some 280,000 British, 400,000 Americans, 1.5 million Japanese, 3.5 million Germans - and you may put Soviet losses at 10 million. Korea? The US lost 27,704. And so, because every US commentator inevitably heads that way, to Vietnam. Americans killed in action were 47,378 (roughly a fifth of Vietnamese military deaths); 1,536 Americans died in the Tet offensive (against 7,764 Vietnamese). Some historians, lumping in civilian deaths north and south, calculate that about 13% of Vietnam's population died one way or another during that war.

Yaa de yaa de yaaaaaaawn, how funny is that, not a patch on Spaghetti trees!!

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Monday, 31 March 2003 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh wait no sorry http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,925941,00.html

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Monday, 31 March 2003 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

(snort) except that it isn't - look at the date!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 07:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Better than the "square peas" story in the fucking Express.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 07:41 (twenty-three years ago)

That was on the Today programme too. Maybe it's true. AS IF I CARE.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely it's this one:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,926795,00.html

I'm ashamed to admit I've fallen for a really obvious April Fool this morning. Red Issue (a Man United supporters' site) have got this story about Peter Ridsdale being offered a seat on the United board. Got me worried for a few minutes.

http://www.redissue.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=97042

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 08:07 (twenty-three years ago)

dumbass red's

― superwhites (james), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

(sic)

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

The story about the railway stations near Manchester which are served by one train a week in one direction only is definitely true.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

(the boring explanation for the one-train-a-week thing: up until the mid-90s, although it was hard for British Rail to actually close railway lines - they had to hold public inquiries, invite objections, and so on - there was nothing saying how many trains they had to run. Therefore, if they wanted to close a line, they would first run hardly any trains on it for a year or two, so then noone could object by saying "but I use that line every day!" or whatever. When British Rail was broken up the rules were changed, so that the companies that now operate train services have to run at least as many services as there were under British Rail. The lines that BR was trying to shut down when people got wise to their Cunning Plan, though, are still running with hardly any services - for example, the town of Brigg, Lincolnshire, has three trains in each direction every Saturday, and none for the rest of the week.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Inmate wins freedom in new public television reality show is our crappy one, though Two Tracys double the trouble is sadly true.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

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