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M1BYT > POEM 08.01.07 23:16l 32 Lines 1485 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Marmite miners
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From: M1BYT@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
To : POEM@WW
VK2AWZ Opined with considerable skill:-
> A well known eating haunt nearby Sydney harbour, is called the Spaghetti
> Factory and on entry, there is a giant mural of a spaghetti tree, with
> spaghetti flowing out all over it.
> Some are taken in by this and go away educated into believing spaghetti
> grows on trees. As a young person I even believed it!
In the dim and distant past (probably early 1960's) there was April Fool trick
played upon viewers (of the BBC I think), which took the form of an extremely
serious seeming program describing where spagetti came from - about the
Italian Spaghetti trees. Many viewers took the program serously. Perhaps
that's where the idea originated?
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