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g his candidacy speech. Listeners responded viscerally to the announcement, flooding the show with calls expressing shock and outrage. Only during the second half of the show did the host John Huckleberry reveal that the announcement was a practical joke. Nixon’s voice was impersonated by edian Rich Little. Alabama Changes the Value of Pi The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from to the ‘Biblical value’ of . Soon the article made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly spread around the world, forwarded by . It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by physicist Mark Bo slough. The LeftHanded Whopper 1998: Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a “LeftHanded Whopper” specially designed for the 32 million lefthanded Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their lefthanded customers. The following day Burger King issued a followup release revealing that although the LeftHanded Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, “many others requested their own ‘right handed’ version.” Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers Discover Magazine reported that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. April Pizza had found a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could bee burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds. They used this ability to hunt penguins, melting the ice beneath the pe