The Onion Gets Taken As The Truth
I like stories like this, where a humorous piece from a satirical web site like The Onion, gets taken as the truth, by the media in some country where freedom and press don’t go anywhere together. This time it’s China that gets fooled, but Iran has been duped in the past.
The trouble is that these countries wouldn’t make fun of a serious leader so wouldn’t know humour if it hit them in the face.
I wonder if they have April Fools’ Day in China and Iran?
The Anonymous Widower 
Probably not, they dont have it in France either, we had an exchange student with us one year, and she didnt know about it and it was actually quite a difficult concept to explain to her. As were bouncing bombs to the German girl we had – we had no idea at all that they dont teach that stuff in German schools!
Comment by Liz P | November 28, 2012 |
Read the Wikipedia link and the French do have something similar. As do believe it or not the Iranians, although I can’t imagine some of their leaders condoning it.
And after all there are a couple of rather funny comedians with Iranian roots, so they are not a race without humour.
Comment by AnonW | November 28, 2012 |