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April is the month that we have April Fool's Day!
The pictures that you see in this post were all taken by me on 21st April 2023 in our local park ..Beveridge Park in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
As you can see the weather was absolutely glorious! We could with more of that weather now, as so far this year has been pretty miserable.
If you live in a hot country, be glad you don't suffer our depressing winter!
Before I take you further, you should know that this post is a non what's the word eligible maybe, fluffing heck I can't believe I can't think of the word I want!
Anyway to cut a long story short this post is in response to the #bom from Silver Bloggers community, more specifically Blog of the Month Returns - It's not an April Fool's joke
Have you seen anything peculiar about these trees. This is spring so the trees are devoid of leaves in case you were wondering.
There is one particular April Fool's that I don't know if I remember from the original airing or the several replays over the years.
Spaghetti grows from trees
Who knew!
So there was an afternoon/evening show called Nationwide I think it was.
One year they ran a prank for April.
They had pictures of trees with yes you guessed it, spaghetti hanging off the branches!
Of course when I actually saw these fluffing shoes hanging from the branches it made me think of this prank!
What the fluff are shoes doing hanging from the trees?
It is not just pairs of shoes but also bicycle tyres!
Bumper spaghetti crop thanks to mild winter and removal of spaghetti weevil
Basically I got myself intrigued and went searching and found that the prank was Before my time! The TV programme was Panorama not Nationwide, which makes it all the more remarkable as Panorama was a deadly serious BBC documentary that ran for years.
The Prank ...
Panorama reported from Switzerland, where the combination of a mild winter and the virtual disappearance of pests like the spaghetti weevil, has resulted in a bumper spaghetti crop.
Fake news
This clip is believed to be one of the first televised April Fools pranks - the original fake news.
Back in the day (1957) some viewers in the words of Queen Victoria We Are Not Amused... Yep they didn't see what was funny because Panorama was supposed to be a serious fact based program! They criticised the BBC ... fluffing killjoys!
Was the prank a success?
Well some viewers wrote into the BBC to ask where they could purchase their own spaghetti bushes!
That sounds like a result to me...
What do you think? Have you heard about this fake news...
This is my unofficial entry to Blog of the Month Returns - It's not an April Fool's joke from the fantastically fun @fionasfavourites and the superb Silver Bloggers community.
PS get your entries in, it closes on midnight GMT (also known as UTC) on Tuesday 16 April 2023
Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!
All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo taken with my Canon Powershot HS70 bridge camera.
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Lol, spaghetti. I bet there were those who fell for it.
Thats a lot of shoes, how do they get home afterward?!
There are hundreds of shoes in quite a few trees, little shits seems to be some sort of game they play.
Yeah I am sure there a few folks who took it hook line and sinker!
I hope that they arent being utter shits and taking other peoples shoes to hang up there!
The trees are right beside the skate park so I think they are being utter shits.
Basturts. Catch them and skelp em! 😀😀
That is the problem now, you can't even say boo to them without getting into trouble let alone skelp the wee basturts!
Very true!
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Thanks for that!
I would be fool by that spaghetti tree😁, and those shoes, i wonder if nobody take it home.
Hehe oh would you! The shoes there are lots of them, I think kids beat other kids and throw their shoes there so they get into trouble with their parents. Btw it was great to see you from your sisters pics 💙
Hehehe😁
Are you going to enter a post, there are some good fun prizes to be won, what a prank you played on @lhes ....
Oh let me check 😜
I used to get duped pretty frequently on April Fools day. I am a lot more careful now. I think it's just a byproduct of the world we currently live in.
Oh you did did you... I remember at school it was basically an excuse to hit people!!!
I got hit for other reasons most all year!
No, no, it's still the same in this hot weather. Eveb if you go naked, it's still hot and seriously its annoying. And e-fan is also not helpful sometimes coz even the air coming on it is hot too ( ꈍᴗꈍ). Like really really hot ಥ‿ಥ.
But anyways, those pranks of shoes hanging on the trees are effing hilarious (≧▽≦). Like the effort too on making them is just (人 •͈ᴗ•͈) hahahaha. If its in our place and I spotted a good pair, I'll get them for sure hahahaha. As long as no one is looking HAHAHA
Oh trust me I lived in serious hot weather and for me, the cold dark days of winter are just depressing.
The shoes are funny, I mean I couldn't believe my eyes the first time I noticed it!
They are quite high up so not sure how you would get them as there are people watching all the time!
Hahahahaha... i want a spaghetti bush too! Please!!! 😋
The things with the shoes i have seen in Costa Rica, especially the Caribbean coast, where the spaghettis grow on telephone and electricity cables. Hehehe
Hehe yes there were often spaghetti shoes on the electricity cables in Spain hehe!
And don't we all want a spaghetti bush hehe
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When I was a student every year we played practical jokes on April Fool's Day, one year they did it to me, and to be honest it wasn't funny.
Spaghetti in the trees?
In my city of Corrientes Argentina, you see sneakers hanging on the cables of the public road, but this here has a not very funny meaning, this is a sign that there is a Kiosk selling drugs and narcotics very close.
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Hi there my friend @jlufer things are going great today and I hope the same with you!
Yes spaghetti on the trees like a fruit 🤣
I have often seen pairs of shoes thrown over telephone cables but did not know that in your city it means there are drugs being sold near by!
Have a wonderful rest of your day ...
Spaghetti tree must have had folk laughing, those who never got it, normal array of not so bright, still many around today!
Humour is lacking of late, even comedians cannot simply enjoy entertaining audiences as they once did, ten out of ten for finding this old footage of prank used via TV in the day.
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Yes the footage is excellent and I did chuckle when I watched it. It made it all look very real! It just shows how easy it is to manipulate people. Especially that array of not so bright!
You are so right, humour is being eradicated, we can't say anything now for fear of upsetting someone I think!
We had some excellent comedians and TV shows or commercials that had one laughing, one seldom hears it anymore, that is sad!
Live or recorded for TV Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Chris Rock, Steve Martin. Earlier years in silent shows with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd to name but a few.
Now we beat ourselves up laughing/crying at world leaders.
The only city that i saw shoes hanging is Napoli. Italy... And i never though some other parts can do this.... In any way bycicle tyres is something new.... Still dont understand very well the meaning of this staff🤔
That's funny! I guess they just throw up their old shoes, would be a shame to lose your new ones!
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Oh my, my the shoes! Perhaps it's people's way of getting rid of some pairs, haha! It's funny that Panorama did such a prank. Those who didn't get the joke may have been too serious, lol!
In Cuba young people play in parks and streets, for example soccer, and throw their shoes at the electrical wires, I have never been able to find out why they do it. You see it less and less. Interesting what you tell us about April Fool's Day. Happy weekend.🤗
Ah, and I thought the shoes grow on trees only in our park. Actually it is just one pair, not as many. 😄
Hehe, I love the pictures man
Especially the one of shoes hanging on thw trees, hehe
Coming to Italy and experiencing the cold winter for the first time, I was home sick
But now I am kind of getting used to it
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I haven’t heard about the fake news, it’s my first time
Now I’m thinking how they got those number of shoes hanging up there, is there a nearby mosque or something? And they pranked the people by taking their shoes when they were inside?
Oh and the spaghetti? I definitely would have believed so quick
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Hehe!!!! Hello hello my dear Super Ed
If news like that came out here, people would surely run out to queue to get a spaghetti bush 🤣 and if there were trees with shoes they would surely take them 😂.
You could send some rain to this side of the ocean, here the drought has been rough and in the last few days there have been forest fires in the mountains.
Hope you and Mrs. T are well. 💙😘
Hello friend, I really love your pictures.
Lot of spaghetti up there and how did everyone get there shoe.
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Spaghetti growing from a tree? I bet that was a fake news and some people would still fall for the prank. Hehehehe.
But some set of people could have such time hanging those shoes and tyres on the tree. Like, are they for display or what? Lol
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I'm not sure at the moment, but I'll take in the hopes...
Thank you for this post @tengolotodo....
LOL, that's a good one. Funny how people still fall for far-fetched stories like that.
It's not such a big thing anymore, or is it just because I'm a 'retiree' working from home?
All those shoes, I think they call it shoefitti, crazy!
Enjoy those trees becoming green again, and more sunshiny day;)
I've seen many pairs of shoes hanging across power or cable wires, but never understood why.
One good thing about them in the trees, birds can nest in them.
Happy April @tengolotodo
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you made me laugh with those jokes, I can't imagine the faces of the people. hehehehehehehehehe
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It would be funny I think!
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