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ught more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Only a few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer’s terminology。 Nixon for President 1992: National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, “I didn’t do anything wrong, and I won’t do it again.” Acpanying this announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering 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 rel