I was going to write something witty and clever for April Fools day, but anything I came up with was either stupid or lame!
Let's face it, my good ideas are great, but my stupid and lame ideas suck big time!
So!
Rather than bore all you dear readers, this piece by AP was sort of interesting!
By The Associated PressLONDON - In today's headlines: flavoured newsprint, high-tech ferrets and the revelation that Britain's greatest writer was - quelle horreur! - French.
O.K. That's what happened in jolly old England.
The stories in Thursday's press aren't true, but examples of the British media continuing its tradition of April Fool's Day spoofs.
Every April 1, media outlets engage in an unofficial yearly competition to dupe the naive and unsuspecting.
The Sun says it has developed the world's first flavoured newspaper page and is inviting readers to lick a square of newsprint "to reveal a hidden taste."
The Daily Telegraph says an Internet service provider is to use tunneling ferrets to deliver broadband services to remote areas, and BBC radio's "Today" program has an item claiming William Shakespeare's mother was French.
BUT!
On this side of the pond a stroke of fortune / misfortune plagued a woman a few days ago and would have made a perfect April Fools day joke!
Seems a Colorado woman won $42.9 million off a penny slot machine........ and saw her jackpot disappear when the casino said the payout message was an mistake!
The false jackpot message went to Louise Chavez Friday while she was playing penny slots in the Fortune Valley Casino in Central City.
The machine announced she'd won $42.9 million - a far richer sum than the posted top prize of $251,000.
Fortune Valley doesn't dispute that the machine told Chavez she'd won millions. But the casino says workers immediately told the gambler the message was an error and reported the mistake to the Colorado Division of Gaming, which regulates casinos.
Chavez says she's owed the full jackpot. "I just felt like, you know, I was being cheated. I was being cheated out of the money that I won," Chavez told KCNC-TV in Denver.
Colorado gaming authorities say the casino has no legal obligation to pay the $42.9 million. Don Burmania, a spokesman for the division, said the top prize of $251,000 was clearly posted in the casino and that a software malfunction is to blame for the glitch.
"If she is owed some money, the casino and the manufacturer are more than willing to pay her what she's owed. But it will not be $42.9 million, that's not possible," Burmania said.
"April Fools" lady!
(Sob!)
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Barb (Gather Site Ferret) Carlson said;
That would be an awfully cruel joke to think you'd won that much money and nada!
Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E! and H E R E! And as a paperback H E R E ! and H E R E !
