『攻略』愚人节整蛊攻略你也许知道，但用英语怎么说为孩子收藏丰富学习( 三 )
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5、英国卫报的4月1日事件：
San Serriffe
虚拟
Image1977: The British newspaper The Guardian published aspecial seven-page supplement devoted to San Serriffe, a small republic said toconsist of several semi-colon-shaped islands located in the Indian Ocean. A series of articles affectionately described the geographyand culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named UpperCaisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital wasBodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian's phones rang all day asreaders sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Only a fewnoticed that everything about the island was named after printer's terminology 。
1977年愚人节 ， 英国卫报发行了长达7页的增刊 ， 全是介绍San Serriffe这个印度洋上的小岛国的 ， 据说那里有好几个分号形状的小岛 。 文章中大肆渲染了这里的风情和民俗 ， 介绍了它的城市和首都 ， 甚至总统的名字 。 当天卫报编辑室的电话都被读者打爆了 ， 大家都想知道这样美好的度假胜地在哪 。 只有少数人注意到 ， 首都名字Bodoni是印刷术语 ， 是一种印刷字体的名称 。
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6、科学技术杂志的愚人节愚人手段：
Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
圆周率值的修改
1998: The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Scienceand Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama statelegislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Soon the article made its way onto theinternet, and then it rapidly spread around the world, forwarded by email. Itonly became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundredsof calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, whichwas intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teachingof evolution, was written by physicist Mark Boslough 。
1998年愚人节：New Mexicans科学技术杂志宣称阿拉巴马州要立法改变圆周率pi的值 ， 很快这事被传上网 ， 通过电子邮件传遍全世界 。 阿拉巴马立法机构因此接到无数抗议电话 。
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7、汉堡王的愚人节事件：
The Left-Handed Whopper
左撇子大汉堡
1998: Burger King published a full page advertisement inUSA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a"Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 millionleft-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper includedthe same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty,etc 。 ) ， but all the condiments wererotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. Thefollowing day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that althoughthe Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone intorestaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the pressrelease, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."
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