Real April 1 News? Marshmallow Attacks and Travelators on Golf Courses?
April 1 is by far the most challenging day to read a newspaper. After all, numerous news items could potentially be an April Fool’s gag.
Take, for example, today’s story in The Sun of a 13-year-old boy who was questioned by police for attacking a fellow student with a marshmallow. The story was released near midnight and has subsequently been picked up by The Plymouth Herald and The Daily Mail, whose editorial team, one speculates, would not likely follow up on a Sun piece unless there were an element of veracity to it. (We will wait until tomorrow for the answer to that.)
For its part The Mail ran a piece which seems to be true about a moving escalator at the Schloss Auel Golf Club outside of Cologne, Germany.
I write the word “true” because news of the “magic carpet” that transports golfers first green to the second tee also appears on the Schloss Auel GC website.
Betting on Mark Zuckerberg’s Dog
Hard not to like.
The Facebook founder’s canine, named Beast, got his own page earlier in the year.
The cute little fella already has close to 86,000 Likes as of this writing.
The odds of him topping a million Likes currently stand at 4/7.
Ladyboys in the Sky
One of the quirkier business stories of the past week would have to go to P.C. Air, the Bangkok-based air carrier which recently employed three transgender stewardesses to serve passengers when the first flights take off in April.
Christmas Cocktails on Your iPad
The following Christmas cocktail recipes were provided to Chortler.com by William Grant & Sons and Robb Report which have teamed up this season to provide the Holiday Host Guide, an iPad application featuring everything a good master of house will need to see him/her through the festivities and into the new year.
Men, Underwear, YouTube
While we’re on the subject of underwear, Calvin Klein, in celebration of its new X brand and in the knowledge that this site is produced by people who never wear anything else but their underwear, is offering a free shipping throughout the year for anyone who orders at cku.com. All you have to do is enter this code: SHIP10. (Don’t say we didn’t perform a good deed today.)
