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Friday, 1 April 2011

April meta-fool

I don't normally quote en bloc but I quite like this by Richard Wallingham in The Age.
OUTGOING Victorian Senator Steve Fielding has launched an ambitious plan to ban the telling of lies on April 1 to help stem the ‘‘ever-growing annual tradition of playing practical jokes on less intelligent Australians.’’

“The pranks have gotten more nasty and more tricky,’’ Senator Fielding said.

‘‘Today, Senator [Stephen] Conroy told me that there was a mistake in the counting at the election and I will be coming back to the Senate in July.’’

The Family First senator, who lost his seat at last year’s election, said banning lies on April 1 would be a sensible measure to protect gullible Australians.

‘‘I was so happy that I released a press release, but then everyone started laughing and the horrible joke became clear. It’s unfair, and I won’t stand for it.”

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In embracing the April Fools' Day spirit, he said a Family First government would respect the rights of all Australians ‘‘to not be molested by pranksters.’’ ...
Commit this to memory, for the day is probably coming when someone suggests this in August.

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Looks like a meta-meta-meta-meta-fool. The 4th meta being some of the comments on the Age (I HOPE they were just pretending to be dumb!!)
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Sorry for the late reply here. Yeah, comment threads on newspaper articles are usually a giggle goldmine. Worth thinking very carefully before posting anything on Apr 1st though. I doubt that all of them were pretending.
The smoking ban was reviewed using a common sense approach to decency and fairness and has been amended. Tax paying smokers who heavily subsidize the government budget and whose SHS has been proven to be harmless to bystanders will be permitted to smoke in indoor smoking rooms established for just this purpose as well as anywhere outdoors as outdoor bans will be prohibited. April's Fools !!
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Chuckle.

(Sorry for the late reply)

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