Tim Worstall

San Serriffe

An oldie but a goodie from The Guardian. One of the classic April Fool’s stories, up there with spaghetti farming and The Telegraph’s revelation of US plans to invade Canada in 1939 (the spoof there being that it was actually true).

What does slightly worry me though is that I haven’t spotted any others today. Anyone else seen any?

Err, The Mahdi Bunting provides an interesting entry but I fear she’s serious. She’s just noted that sex has succumbed to market forces. Sheesh,  you’d think she’d never actually read anything at all on the subject. Sex has always been a market, a trading of this for that.

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  1. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    The Graun has hired a new writer called Olaf Priol, which would normally set alarm bells ringing – but for the fact that his debut piece is entirely convincing.

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  2. Tom Kratman Avatar
    Tom Kratman

    Tim:
    But of _course_ we had plans to invade Canada. I’d be pretty disappointed if we didn’t have plans to do so _now_…though they might be hidden under some other pretext like Canada requesting US intervention.
    Tim adds: Achh. Tom. All armies have plans to invade everyone always. That’s what made the spoof so good. They published the real plans, that really existed, and waited for those who didn’t know the former to get the vapours.

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    Michael John Smith

    I have just put the San Serriffe article on my blog, because that issue of the Guardian was wrongly used in my trial to help convict me of spying for the KGB.
    http://parellic.blogspot.com/2006/11/san-serriffe-secrets-of-guardian-spy.html

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