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>Hello? … it’s Alan calling, Alan from Earth….

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Yeah, Hello? Uh, if you’re there pick up, okay listen it’s Alan calling, Alan from Earth. You probably don’t remember, it’s over in the western spiral of the Milky Way although obviously you might have named it after a completely different brand of chocolate. Basically just find the Oort Cloud and ask for directions from there. Anyway just calling to catch up. We’re doing alright with the carbon base lifeform thing. Kids are diversifying nicely, going through a bit of a fad for spines and brains at the minute but it’s probably the same where you are. Well, that’s about it really, we just hadn’t heard from you in a while, like when we killed Michael Rennie or Klaatu, as you knew him in The Day The Earth Stood Still. So if you received this, get in touch, but actually thinking about it, don’t bother calling after about, what, 2150, because I’m not expecting anyone to be in. Oh and I’m sending this song along it’s called God Song by Robert Wyatt. I hope you like it. And that you don’t communicate through perfume or minor variatrions in your sense of balance or something. Okay, you take care and I’ll talk to you soon. Love you, Bye.

via The Daily Grail

Lyrics to the God Song. Great stuff!

God Song (Wyatt, Miller)

What on earth are you doing God? is this some sort of joke you’re playing?
Is it ’cause we didn’t pray?
Well I can’t see the point of the words without the action
Are you just hot air breathing over us? and overall
is it fun watching us all?
Where’s your son? we want him again
Next time you send your boy down here
Give him a wife and a sexy daughter – someone we can understand
Who’s got some ideas we use really relate to
we’ve all read your rules – tried them. Learned them in school then tried them
They’re impossible rules you’ve made us look fools
Well done God but now please
don’t hunt me down for heaven’s sake! You know that I’m only joking. Aren’t I?
Pardon me – I’m very drunk but I know what I’m trying to say
And It’s nearly night time and we’re still alone waiting
For something unknown Still waiting
So throw down a stone or something
Give us a sign for Christ’s sake

>April Fools’ Day, Real News that people thought were jokes.

>Via wikipedia:

• The April 1, 1946 Aleutian Island earthquake tsunami that killed 165 people in Hawaii and Alaska resulted in the creation of a tsunami warning system, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, established in 1949 for Pacific Ocean countries. The tsunami in question is known in Hawaii as the “April Fools’ Day Tsunami” due to people drowning because of the assumptions that the warnings were an April Fools’ prank.
• The death of King George II of Greece was on April 1, 1947.
• The AMC Gremlin was first introduced on April 1, 1970.^[79]
• In 1979, Iran declared April 1 its national Republic Day. Thirty-one years on, this continues to be mistaken for a joke.^[80]
• On April 1, 1984, singer Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father. Originally, people assumed that it was a fake news story, especially considering the bizarre aspect of the father being the murderer.
• On April 1, 1991, news emerged that David Icke, the British sports reporter, had announced that he was the son of God and that the world was about to end in an apocalypse. Not surprisingly, many people took the reports as an April Fool. Icke has, however, continued to expound his views.
• On April 1, 1993, NASCAR Winston Cup Series Champion Alan Kulwicki was killed in a plane crash involving Hooters of America executives in Blountville, Tennessee near the Tri-Cities Airport. The party were travelling to the Food City 500 qualifying scheduled for the next day.
• The suicide death of Deathrock legend Rozz Williams was on April 1, 1998.
• On April 1, 1999, the Canadian Northwest Territories was split, and the territory now known as Nunavut came to be.
• Gmail‘s April 1, 2004 launch was widely believed to be a prank, as Google traditionally perpetrates April Fools’ Day hoaxes each April 1, and the announced 1GB online storage was at the time vastly more than existing online email services (see Google’s hoaxes.) Another Google-related event that turned out not to be a hoax occurred on April 1, 2007, when employees at Google’s New York City office were alerted that a ball python kept in an engineer’s cubicle had escaped and was on the loose. An internal e-mail acknowledged that “the timing…could not be more awkward” but that the snake’s escape was in fact an actual occurrence and not a prank.^[81]
• On April 1, 2008, it was reported that UEFA would require the Swedish fast food chain Max to close their restaurant at the Borås Arena during the European Under-21 Football Championship due to a conflict with official sponsor McDonald’s and a requirement that only official sponsors may operate around the arena. The arena was later replaced as a tournament site.^[82]
• On April 1, 2008, Persch announced that the GNOME desktop web browser Epiphany would be switched from Mozilla‘s Gecko engine to the WebKit engine used by Safari and KDE‘s equivalent application Konqueror.^[83]
• Also, on April 1, 2009, a Virus/Worm called Conficker was released in December 2008 but reports about its spread to millions of computers, releasing personal info and deleting files came out on April 1st. This was supposed to be a joke, but random computers throughout America were hit. Before this happened, news media like NBC, Fox News, ABC and CBS told the viewers to install firewalls and updates to their Windows computers before it hit.^{[citation needed]}
• On April 1, 2011, word of Betty White to host a prank show called Betty White’s Off Their Rockers hit the news.^[84]

>No Joke: America’s First Laughing Competition Guffaws Off Ground

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It’s no joke: The United States’ first-ever laughing championship takes place Saturday in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and a few dozen gigglers, guffawers and chortlers will yuck it up in hopes of winning the coveted title of “California’s Best Laugher.”

We’re serious: It’s a laughing contest and the contestants will compete in events such as “Best Diabolical Laugh” and “Most Contagious Laugh” and face off in “Laughter Duels” to see who can make the other person crack up most.

And while just mentioning the contest is enough to make some skeptics start rolling on the floor in ridicule, it’s part of a serious effort by Albert Nerenberg to raise awareness of the power of laughter.

Nerenberg is a self-proclaimed “laughologist” who started noticing the power of laughter while, inexplicably, watching Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts.Before all these fights, there is a stare-down and, many times, the fighters begin to spontaneously laugh,” Nerenberg told AOL News. “They triggered laughter through eye contact and their proximity to each other. This is not uncommon.”

Nerenberg decided to take the laughter to its inevitable conclusion by having contests in which people compete for the best laugh, rather than punch each other’s lights out. …

“I do recommend contestants eat a light meal before the contest and make sure to hydrate because you will be using a lot of energy,” she said.

One of the potential contestants, Marcia Alter, is an accomplished laugher and says the key to laughing long, loud and hard is to “empty out the right brain so you feel a connectedness with everything.”

She has some other advice as well.

“Yes, you should go to the bathroom first,” she said.

via No Joke: America’s First Laughing Competition Guffaws Off Ground.

 

>Laughter eases hospital pain

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… “In the future, patients watching humorous videos could become a standard component of some medical procedures.”

The US study, Rx Laughter, is a collaboration between the entertainment industry, paediatrics and psychiatry.

They asked 21 children aged eight to 14 to put their hand into cold water and found the whole group tolerated the temperature longer while watching a funny video.

Those who laughed most remembered less of the pain and hormone tests on their saliva showed their stress levels were lower after laughing. …

via BBC News | HEALTH | Laughter eases hospital pain.

Just make sure your patient doesn’t have Coulrophobia before you put on that red nose.

>Blank book on sex outsells ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Da Vinci Code’

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So what does every man think apart from sex? Apparently nothing, claims British author who has written a book on it.

Quite fittingly, the book has just a cover and 200 blank pages inside.

Sheridan Simove’s What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex has become a surprise bestseller on Amazon.com.

The book has hit number 744 on the Amazon list, ahead of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (number 2,910) and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (2,406).

It is also picking up as a novelty gift among amused uni students in the UK who are flocking to grab a copy of the $7.95 paperback .

A student from Nottingham University says she picked up the copy for her friend.

“I bought a copy for my mate as a joke and he started using it as a note pad for lectures. Now everyone seems to have one. It’s started a real craze on campus”.

The book’s ‘author’ says he never expected his work to become a bestseller.

“When the book was published I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would outsell Harry Potter. But Britain’s students seem to think my book is magic and who am I to argue?” Simove has been quoted as saying by news reports.

An Oxford University psychology graduate, 39-year-old Simove says his next research project is a PhD on the subject of what women think apart from sex.

“I hope to publish my findings in another decade,” he jokes. …

via Blank book on sex outsells ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Da Vinci Code’ – Seven News Queensland.

Reader comments:

… Nothing new…I’ve got a copy of a book from the 1980’s called “The Achievements Of The Labour Government”, a little black paperback, and it too is totally blank when you open it up.

… The author has just coppied what Cheech and Chong did. They released a movie called “youve been ripped off”. Sold out and it was just 1.5 hours of blank screen then a big YOUVE BEEN RIPPED OFF across the screen.

… Another case of plagiarism……Alan Pease published a book “What men know about women” 25 years ago…….blank pages…I still have the signed copy.

>Blank book on sex outsells ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Da Vinci Code’

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So what does every man think apart from sex? Apparently nothing, claims British author who has written a book on it.

Quite fittingly, the book has just a cover and 200 blank pages inside.

Sheridan Simove’s What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex has become a surprise bestseller on Amazon.com.

The book has hit number 744 on the Amazon list, ahead of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (number 2,910) and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (2,406).

It is also picking up as a novelty gift among amused uni students in the UK who are flocking to grab a copy of the $7.95 paperback .

A student from Nottingham University says she picked up the copy for her friend.

“I bought a copy for my mate as a joke and he started using it as a note pad for lectures. Now everyone seems to have one. It’s started a real craze on campus”.

The book’s ‘author’ says he never expected his work to become a bestseller.

“When the book was published I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would outsell Harry Potter. But Britain’s students seem to think my book is magic and who am I to argue?” Simove has been quoted as saying by news reports.

An Oxford University psychology graduate, 39-year-old Simove says his next research project is a PhD on the subject of what women think apart from sex.

“I hope to publish my findings in another decade,” he jokes. …

via Blank book on sex outsells ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Da Vinci Code’ – Seven News Queensland.

Reader comments:

… Nothing new…I’ve got a copy of a book from the 1980’s called “The Achievements Of The Labour Government”, a little black paperback, and it too is totally blank when you open it up.

… The author has just coppied what Cheech and Chong did. They released a movie called “youve been ripped off”. Sold out and it was just 1.5 hours of blank screen then a big YOUVE BEEN RIPPED OFF across the screen.

… Another case of plagiarism……Alan Pease published a book “What men know about women” 25 years ago…….blank pages…I still have the signed copy.

>Stephen Colberg is Anonymous. ;-)

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All the conspiracy folk out there should love this one: a few nights ago, Stephen Colbert had Glenn Greenwald on to discuss the showdown between security firm HBGary and the Wikileaks-supporting internet ‘vigilante’ hacking group Anonymous which has been making news of late. Towards the end of the interview, keen-eyed viewers may have picked up a little ‘video glitch’ – and if they were interested enough, they may have investigated further and found this ‘subliminal’ one-frame overlay on top of Colbert’s face…

Yes that’s right – Colbert has a Guy Fawkes mask graphic over his face, a symbol intimately associated with ‘Anonymous’, derived from the Alan Moore comic series ‘V for Vendetta’. Here’s some video from the interview so you can see the subliminal insert (at around 4:22 into the video):

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via Daily Grail Frontpage | TDG – Science, Magick, Myth and History.

This video cracked me up.

>Stephen Colberg is Anonymous. ;-)

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All the conspiracy folk out there should love this one: a few nights ago, Stephen Colbert had Glenn Greenwald on to discuss the showdown between security firm HBGary and the Wikileaks-supporting internet ‘vigilante’ hacking group Anonymous which has been making news of late. Towards the end of the interview, keen-eyed viewers may have picked up a little ‘video glitch’ – and if they were interested enough, they may have investigated further and found this ‘subliminal’ one-frame overlay on top of Colbert’s face…

Yes that’s right – Colbert has a Guy Fawkes mask graphic over his face, a symbol intimately associated with ‘Anonymous’, derived from the Alan Moore comic series ‘V for Vendetta’. Here’s some video from the interview so you can see the subliminal insert (at around 4:22 into the video):

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via Daily Grail Frontpage | TDG – Science, Magick, Myth and History.

This video cracked me up.

>ET, The Really Gross Scary Sequel

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