Somebody who declined to pull an April Fool's prank
By adamg - Wed, 04/02/2008 - 2:24pm.
Stacey J. Miller refused a client's request that she send out a prank press release yesterday:
... The press release would have contained how-to tips that were "funny," because they represented ideas that were diametrically opposed to the author's "real" how-to tips. I declined to send out such a press release on the grounds that it was irresponsible. ...
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does anyone remember
the april fools joke one of the boston tv staions pulled in the 80's? i think it was something about a vocano erupting in the blu hills? people were fired? bueller? bueller?
Great Blue Hill hoax
Look here, though there seems to be some doubt in the comments about the date. It happened on the old RKO-owned Channel 7.
my favorite
is the opie and anthony "the mayor's dead" hoax of 10 years ago. i actually thought that one was HYSTERICAL.
Of course ...
The Great Blue Hill really was an active volcano once.
OK, at least 175 million years ago, but still.
You can see the still impressive remains of a lava flow from it on Hyde Park Avenue in Hyde Park - the Dell Avenue Rock (allegedly, the outrcopping at Grove and Washington streets in West Roxbury is the remnants of another volcano, from back in the day when New England and Africa were still part of the same land mass, anybody know for sure?).
1980
I would bet the hoax was 1980.
St. Helens started her eruptive phase in March. She bulged until May 18, when we got the eruption nobody ever forgets. May 18 was neither the start, nor the end of the mess, just the big blast (as those of us who went out to recess in dust masks can attest).
In 1980, with St. Helens starting up, it would have been funny to mock up a steam plume. St. Helens was still our cute pet volcano then. In 1981, it wouldn't have been at all funny.
I hate it when people have
I hate it when people have no sense of humor.