Porky Bickar and Foolish History
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- It was the spring of 1974 and residents of the Alaska panhandle town of Sitka woke to a surprise. 3400 foot mount Edgecumbe, towering over the city, was belching thick, black smoke. Little did the worried residents know that local resident Porky Bickar was following in an ancient tradition.
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Henry the VIII was supposed to have been so fed up that he ordered his Fool to be put to death. Though in apprecation of past service he asked the Fool how he wished to die.The Fool thought for a while and replied, Old Age.
A variant on that tale is Giulio Cesare Croce's Bertoldo. The Duke sentences Berttoldo the jester to death by hanging. Bertoldo asks for one last wish; this is granted. His wish is to choose tree from which he is to be hanged. He never found the right tree before he died at the age of 83.
@@elcastorgrande A good story always gets about. :-)
That Fool certainly had the wit for the job.
@@johanrunfeldt7174 As the purpose of the Fool, was supposed to be the one who pointed out to the Nobles thier stupidity. If you wern't quick witted,you didn't last long.
According to local legend, when Mount St. Helens erupted six years later, a Sitka resident wrote to [Porky] Bickar to tell him, "This time you've gone too far!"
The only real April Fool's joke I ever played was on my mother by causing her to go into labor on April 1, weeks earlier than planned, and then further messing with her by not being born for another 36 hours, on April 2. She always said I was her favorite April Fool's joke.
April fool's day holds a very special meaning to my family. My great great grandfather John Benjamin Lockhart fought for the Confederacy. He was captured by the Yankees at the battle of Vicksburg. They shipped him down to New Orleans where he was held prisoner in the old Federal Mint that had been converted to house POWs as laborers. Having access to tools, John managed to hide a chisel in his clothes and sneak it back to his bunk. He used the chisel over the next several weeks to work on the mortar between the bricks 🧱 and create a hole in the wall. March 31, 1864, after lights out, he finished making the hole large enough for himself to fit through. He kept the chisel and grabbed most of his other personal items and prepared for his escape. It was after midnight when his chance came and he bolted for freedom. He almost got away totally undetected. But as he reached the edge of the compound he heard a guard shout out the alarm. "Prisoner Escape! Prisoner Escape!" Then another voice in the compound yelled back, "April Fool's! You didn't trick me!" John kept running and succeeded in his getaway. He returned to his home and family in the West Florida Parrishs of Louisiana and sat out the remainder of the war as was then the honorable practice. John swore until his dying day that he hadn't planned for the escape to happen on April Fool's Day. It was all just a stroke of good luck. Official military records were doctored to cover up the embarrassed Yankee's mistake. He's shown as being released at the end of hostilities. But everyone knows that he was back home before the end of the war and we still have the chisel with "U.S." stamped on the side as proof of what actually happened.
Family history stories are the best. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, my dad, who'd been in the National Guard and then, when his three-year enlistment was up, in a new group called Army of the United States. Congress extended the Regular Army, the National Guard, and Selective Services enlistments for 18 months but nothing was said about the A of the US. Dad's enlistment had ended on 30 November 1941, but he couldn't be released until this point was decided. Finally, they decided that the 18-month extension did not apply to men in the A of the US. His new discharge date was 6 December 1941. He served from 7 December through the end of the war, fighting in the Pacific. Not quite an April Fools Day joke, but a story my dad told everytime he heard anyone saying things like "I'm so short, I have to look up to look down."
I bet your grandpappy told that story on April 1st
@@davidstoyanoff actually not. My grandfather died when I was a toddler. I heard it from my Aunt Inez Caldwell and my Grandmother Lockhart as well as my Dad. I'm the one who started the tradition of the March 31 story telling. My father mounted the chisel on a nice plaque and engraved a brass plate with the date and a short description about the origin of the chisel. The last time I saw it was when my Dad gave it to my oldest cousin for safe keeping.
Wow amazing story!
Look forward to hear that story next year too❤😂
Being Catholic, I really enjoyed the "Microsoft buys Catholic Church" one. The best part was when an American cardinal responded to a reporter with "Hoax!?!?! I thought our cash flow problems had been solved!"
Hahhaaha great satire, which is probably true... Papa Francisco et al, are good buddies with Lynn Rothschild and the World Economic Forum agenda. Bill Gates and MS executives are also in Davos every year. The Pope now takes orders from Klaus Schwab rather than God.
The hands down most famous April Fools prank here in Sweden occured way back in 1962 when the state television aired a PSA on how you could watch color TV on your non-color set by strapping a nylon sock over the glass. It was dry and scientific-sounding enough that huge parts of the populace tried it out.
I had forgotten all about that one - and it had a renewal in the early 1980s!
The best one from Denmark was a news report in 1983 about chocolate easter eggs with real, living ducklings inside.
It was supposedly a new production from a chocolate manufacturer in Århus, with financial support from the government and EU because it was a job creation project.
Animal welfare activists protested fiercely, said the report.
And they showed footage of chocolate eggs with cute little ducklings in them.
"Isn't it dangerous for the ducklings?" asked the reporter. "No no!" answered the manufacturer, "the chocolate eggs has air holes in them. The ducklings can breathe easily. We can send them to the end of the world."
🤣🤣🤣
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I realize I'm quite off topic but do anyone know a good website to stream new tv shows online?
A college friend of mine used to love to prank me every April 1. The last straw came when he called me at 2am and told me our friends had had a fire and told me everyone was going over to help them. Half way over I realized 2 things: 1) last I heard he was in California, and 2) it was April 1. I went by their house and of course there had been no fire. I had a year to plan my revenge. During that year, he was dumped by the love of his life "Ann Smith." Come next April 1 I called the operator and placed a collect call to anyone to my friend in CA. The operator asked who was calling and I said, "Ann Smith." She was doubtful, but made the call anyway. My friend answered and when the operator asked if he would accept the call from "Ann Smith" there was a joyous "YES, YES, OF COURSE." "April Fool A**hole" came my first words. There was a long silence, then, "Stay right there, I'm coming to kill you." If I weren't laughing so hard, I'd not have had to ask him to repeat himself. It was about then I heard the operator drop out of the call. It took him a decade before he pranked me again, and never again at 2am.
I am Navy in 1981 I went overboard on April Fool's Day the water was 39 degrees the executive officer called off the Man Overboard drill cuz he thought it was a joke there was nothing funny about it we have a man in the water thank God for tugboat captain and the angels that pulled me out⚓🇺🇸😁
Wow! Glad you were rescued shipmate. Retired OS1 here
@@RetiredSailor60 thank you Sanders I am grateful to God bless you man😁🤟🇺🇸 thank you for your service
I traveled to Sitka on business and was told the Porky Bikar story while looking at My. Edgecomb. I had never heard of anything funnier in my life. It probably helped the way the story teller told the tale. He was a funny guy to begin with. The elaborate logistics of the joke and the work involved to pull it off amazed me. Porky was quite the guy!
He apparently had to delay the plan several years, waiting for the rare occurrence of a clear day on April 1 in Sitka. When the day arrived, he was pressed to find an available helicopter.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Success: where preparedness & opportunity meet! Makes the story that much better. Again, EXCELLENT video sir, well done.
I moved to Sitka the following year, fell in love with the place, the people and the man who brought me there, and stayed for 20 years. I knew Porky, my husband had gone to school there with his sons, and yes he was quite a character. The volcano spouting all that smoke was only one of many he pulled over the years. The last years I was there I drove tour bus and that was a favorite story for all of us drivers to share. I still have the newspaper clipping with a photo of it from the Sitka Sentinal that we drivers would carry on our tours to pass around, especially on rainy days when the volcano was hidden by clouds. Porky didnt get off scott free however. He got a hefty fine for polluting and had to clean it all up. Which of course he did. But he said that every dime it took was well worth it. Yeppers, a real colorful guy....
The worst prank we ever pulled on my wife was to do nothing at all. We spent the entire day letting her think something was about to happen. It was much funnier than anything we could have actually pulled off.
There's a great M*A*S*H episode where this happens.
try doing this to your wife sometime: th-cam.com/video/ZmMfIUbPjHU/w-d-xo.html
Wow. If I understand this lesson correctly, it behooves us to question the narratives being woven and presented by the so-called news media. The quote, often attributed incorrectly to mark twain, "that is it it is easier to fool someone then to convince them that they have been fooled", has been proven true many times in history. Therefore, I greatly agree with you that this is history that deserves to be remembered. Thank you again.
Mark Twain also said he never let the facts get in the way of a good story. And if Twain didn't say that, he should have.
I love the theory that every origin story of April Fools, is itself an April Fools joke
Me, too.
And me
I fell for it. That professor got one over on me as well. Note to self: never trust a professor again.
Fun fact : when Mount St. Helens erupted, someone wrote a letter to Porky telling him that he went too far.
RIP Harry Truman
@@philipcallicoat9947 And David Johnston.
Can Porky's whereabouts be accounted for during Krakatoa's or Vesuvius's eruption? I think he has some explaining to do!
@@philipcallicoat9947 I never heard that before. Good info.
While watching this I couldn't help but think that one of my favorite pranks was the BBC's harvesting of the spaghetti noodles and suddenly there it was, so I can only presume that THG liked it as well.
I, for one, appreciate the fact that you waited until April 2nd to post this!
My favorite, one that I too was taken in by until the very end of the article, was the great Sidd Finch story in Sports Illustrated. An undiscovered talent who could through a baseball over 160 mph. I am a Cincinnati Reds fan and was furious that the N.Y. Mets had found such a prospect. It was a classic.
Yes. This Giants fan remembers reading that article.
@@Mondo762 Braves fan, and I, too, was furious the Mets "got" him!
Up here in MI I got a few inches of snow as an April fools day joke after a couple weeks of t-shirt weather.
Still can't figure out who pulled it off
When I was young anyone trying to pull a prank on April 2nd would have people chant at them:
"April Fools has come & passed and you are the biggest fool at last. "
In 77 a local radio station in Southern Ontario broadcast, a dust cloud escaped from a cement plant and is mixing with moisture from the clouds. This will fall back to earth within 12 hours. Do not go outside without a hard hat. All the hardware stores sold out of hard hats that April 1st.
My personal favorite was the April Fools joke in 1993 where a San Diego radio station said the Space Shuttle would be landing at Montgomery Field (a non commercial airport with runways too short for the Shuttle). Traffic was snarled for hours by people wanting too see the landing. The great thing...there wasn't a Shuttle flying at that time.
In Canada April fools day ends at noon as well, British heritage and all. I didn't realize the historical connection. I just thought it was the teachers got fed up by then and told us to knock it off .
lol!
Both explanations can be true.
Wow, just think. Here in modern times we have April Fools Day every day of the year.
Which makes the other days less special for "not being themselves". People always prefer the original.
Well, we have ever since sniffy and the bandits stole the election.
yep, it's Daily Fools Day
Which means April first is the only day of the year where every bit of information is scrutinized for its veracity. Hmmmm....🤔
I believe one has to learn to laugh at themselves to really appreciate April Fools Day.
If you can’t laugh at yourself, you aren’t paying attention.
"What fools these mortals be". Shakespeare
There are only two types of humor: you can be like Rodney Dangerfield, poking fun at himself, or Don Rickles,, making fun of everyone else. I prefer self-deprecating humor.
Yes, I've always been an advocate of self defecating humor.
@@nonprogrediestregredi1711 - especially on items that are not always visible to ones audience or friends. One has to laugh, but do carp to hard because that can be a mess.
One of the most dangerous April Fools jokes that backfired was done by a newspaper in 1983 in Durand, Michigan. The paper stated that dihydrogen monoxide was found in the city's water supply. This, of course, is water. However, the non-chemically astute people of the city caused a huge uproar and jammed the phone lines to the local poison control center.
Not specific to April Fool's, but at Boy Scout summer camp, it was common to send Scouts on their first camp from Troop site to Troop site, looking for a smoke changer, a left-handed shovel, a sky-hook or any one of a handful of other creative items
Thanks for reminding me about the left-handed shovel. I have one and am going to offer it up on eBay.
When I was in the Army, we used to send new soldiers to supply to get a left handed monkey wrench or a Fallopian Tube for the radio transmitter.
I remember an Air Force colleague reminiscing about "Mattress Exchange Day" at Lackland Air Base.
For those left-hand threaded nuts, right? lol
Sent the newbies to the com center to get the list of unlisted call signs
Send newbies to the Machine shop for an MR punch, HT shop for HT punch, engine room for Relative bearing grease, get 6 fathoms of water line, etc...
No-one who had a Fallopian tube was apt to fall for that second prank.
When I was a new Boy Scout at my first camp, They tried to get me to walk to a distant camp to ask for “a left-handed smoke shifter”. Didn’t work...
You know, it's kind of funny to think how many pranks become part of different sectors. Mechanics, masons, radio operators, farmers and more. In my time in the military as an armored vehicle mechanic I've seen some pranks that can be funny. Checking an armored vehicle's armor for "soft" spots by tapping with a hammer. Sending new guys for muffler bearing oil when a diesel engine shows signs of engine blow by in the exhaust, which is normal to a point, or even sending commo guys for a can of squelch to fix the radio. Sending a newby for the fence stretcher for barbwire fences being put in. The list can go on forever honestly. It's just funny how these pranks transcend generations of the people pulling them and they keep being pulled.
April 1st is one of my favorite days, love the April Fools Day pranks. It is hilarious to see the different ways we get pranked.
one of my favorites my nephew, who came home for lunch everyday from work and left just before his room mate came home for his, switched the hinges on the refrigerator door but not the handle. so when the roomate came home and went to get his lunch he couldnt get it open.
I moved up to Sitka a few years after this incident. I was about 12 when we moved up there. Have heard this story many times over the years. Porky was indeed quite the character. He was a logger and ran a saw shop. My dad bought a chain saw from his shop. Back room of the shop had several playboy centerfolds hung on the wall. Sitka used to have a yearly logging competition and and the end of the competition Porky would cut the main spar down. He would place a hard hat where he said he would drop it and more often than not he would hit it.
The best April fool's prank was done by "The Home Place", on a local TV station in Knoxville, TN. They were celebrating the discovery of trees that were naturally producing electric power. They demonstrated the effect by plugging in various electric appliances into outlets installed in tree trunks. It was so believable that a California Power executive, thinking the energy shortage had been solved by this new green energy, called the producers for more information. Sadly, it was a prank, the trees had just grown around electric boxes installed too close to the tree.
This is a rather famous one from my home town, San Diego, CA. I just so happened to be listening to them that morning. At least that radio station can honestly say, they paid for their humorous in-digressions. Another stunt that they pulled was a live concert the next year up in the back county. Mind you half the musicians they were playing were either dead or dead.
A disc jockey for radio station KGB-FM in San Diego, California, went on the air on April 1, 1993, and told listeners the space shuttle Discovery would be landing at a small airport nearby instead of Edwards Air Force Base. As a result, over 1000 people crowded tiny Montgomery Field, backing up traffic and prompting hundreds of children to miss school. In fact, Discovery had yet to even depart from Kennedy Space Center. (In addition, Montgomery Field had a 12,000 pound weight limit for aircraft. The Discovery weighed roughly 170,000 pounds.) A furious police department billed the station for the manpower needed to redirect traffic.
I wonder if Batman knows the literal meaning of his city....
*GOAT HOME*
Lol, was coming to say that😂
Got 'em!
In brief, yes, the tale of the Wise Men of Gotham is related to Batman's Gotham City, via Jonathan Swift. That story is told in this episode: th-cam.com/video/RkxYjNmiP1Y/w-d-xo.html
So ? You can find places called Pratt's Bottom, The Slaughters, Upper Up. The Bowwow.Good Honest English place names Try Wales , Llanfairpwillgwyngyll
@@51WCDodge Don't forget Shitterton in Dorset.
Environmental issues aside, that was a brilliant prank.
Most people who love to prank others can't stand to be pranked themselves..
I thoroughly enjoy every episode
The volcano prank was a winner for me.
Rick rolling is a good example of a modern april fools prank that has gone beyond a prank and become a meme
I would really like you to talk about George Seldon, he patented the "automobile" which caused all the early auto manufacturers to pay him a royalty for every car they built. Except Ford who refused. They went to court and eventually won and changed the patent procedure to be more specific in their patenting procedure. It’s a very interesting story
Good morning, THG.
Another great presentation that I knew nothing about. Would you like my Va Military Institute dress shako? I’m betting that’s a West Point garrison hat you have in your collection on the wall. You deserve more! Let me know where I can forward to you if interested. Keep up the good work on your channel! I see the address.
Contact info in the about section
That is a VMI garrison hat. If you are willing to part with the shako, I promise to take care of it and occasionally display it on set.
That "spaghetti farming" gag reminds me of a similar gag about marshmallow farming, which was on an American news program several years ago. A recording of it can be found on TH-cam.
Another layer of that joke is that there is a real plant called marsh mallow, although marshmallows, the confection, generally do not contain any marsh mallow, the plant. The marsh mallow plant may have been part of the recipe for marshmallows at some time in the past, although I’ve never seen any period documentation of this.
raydunakin , heres the vid...
th-cam.com/video/FneDeEPybGA/w-d-xo.html
Please do a show on the History of money , coins >silver , copper & gold . Paper money , private coins . Many Thanks !!
Porky is a legend here in Alaska.
I really liked this one. Everyone can relate to it. We've all felt a bit the fool once or twice in our lives havent we? Happy Renewal Day THG.
In 1989 a Seattle TV station reported that the "Space Needle" a local landmark had collapsed. The 911 lines were jammed with callers. Medical and disaster workers from Eastern Washington gathered together to head to Seattle to assist. They might have taken the prank to far!
Back in the Saddle again!
One day we shall completely eradicate the spaghetti weevil
Already been done. We see no weevil, hear no weevil and speak no weevil.
but the taco termite lives on..
@@SoloPilot6 hahahaa well said!!
Another fun and interesting posting. I always enjoy when you expose the origin for so many sayings that we use commonly yet don’t always know where they come from.
You’ve revealed several in past postings and a couple more today.
I do appreciate that and look forward to every new TH-cam you put out.
I keep watching your subscription numbers so that I can celebrate with you when you reach one million
I appreciate the closed captioning very much!
Thank you so much! I love your show!
"If actual news occurs on April the First"? -- I doubt any of us need to worry about actual news any more.
I vividly remember the spaghetti tree prank, and didn't realize it was fake until I was 7. Since then I have always favored spaghetti over any other form of pasta.
I enjoyed this, as every episode of THG.
I had forgotten that when I was a kid April Fools' Day pranks were only in the morning.
The problem of legitimate news on April 1st - on April 1st 2016 my mom texted me that she'd bought a Tesla, this being when Teslas were all high-end luxury cars far out of her budget (though she did really think they were cool). I immediately thought it was a prank, responding with something like "Ha ha good one!" She had no idea what I was talking about, not even considering it was April Fools day. Eventually we got it all cleared up - It was legitimate, she'd put a refundable deposit on the newly announced more affordable Model 3, which wouldn't arrive for two and a half years.
Good job❤ filled with value information
My comrade lives in Sitka and this story is awesome
Another good one! Thanks. A suggested future topic: the history of the corner store soda fountain in America.
Happy Renewal Day to you as well!
I love this type of content. Well done, as usual. Thank you for your efforts. Canada, being the proper colony, also has a noon cutoff.
Never heard of the Swiss Spaghetti Tree before. The young women pickin' that spaghetti were obviously trying not to smile.
Amusingly enough, I once grew a type of Chinese bean that grew up to three feet long. Several of these climbing beans grew up into the branches of a tree that stood at the edge of my garden and, you guessed it, produced over a hundred yard-long beans which hung down like..... Hmmm, I can't think of a good simile.
My very rural (ahem) neighbors didn't know what to think of it. None of them would try any of this strange and possibly dangerous new vegetable. Curiously, only the tree-climbing beans were edible.
The ones on the trellises were tough and stringy. I think the shade provided by the tree was what made the difference between having tender beans and having green shoe-laces.
Your comment about the danger of April Fools day reminded me of the April 1st joke that wasn't.
A tsunami hit Oahu on April 1st 1946. It was reported to Honolulu by a rancher living near Makapu'u lighthouse (on the other side of the island), but since it was April Fools day, they thought it was a joke. The people of Honolulu where never warned.
When I was a child, I was invited to go on a "snipe hunt" by some older children of a family that my family was visiting. It wasn't April first, but anyone who has ever been asked to go on a "snipe hunt" (these hunts happen at night) knows what a humiliating prank it is!
If you had published this yesterday I would not have believed you.
63yr old and I remember calling it, HuntyGowk. Scotland
That one in Alaska '74 , is a good one. Thanks history guy
I absolutely detested history in school! It would seem I had the wrong teachers! Thanks for making learning fun!
My April fool's joke this year was simply dating everything March 32nd, and my coworkers didn't even find it funny
In Madrid, Spain, flyers were distributed to residents of an apartment building telling women to stand on their porches with their breasts exposed so that satellite photographs could determine if they had breast cancer. There was overwhelming participation
This was the best introduction to "The History Guy." Cool sound, easy intro.
Not to be too critical, since you rarely make errors, but the town in Alaska is Sitka, with a T, not Siska.
I’m glad to see your channel growing your presentations are always beautiful.
Back in the 90s Discover magazine put prank articles in their April issues. One that fooled me was the story of hot-headed moles that lived in Antarctica. They used their hot heads to melt tunnels in the snow under penguins. The penguins would sink under the snow and be eaten by the moles. I actually believed this was true until the next April issue. I hear there are some readers that are still mad at Discover magazine, but all I can do is laugh.
Haha! I was also fooled by that one.
The History Guy is the best thing. On the internet hands down I'm a big big fan from Teddy Jones Riverside mo
Couple things., Sit-ka, not sis-ka. And the name is pronounced Bi (like the first syllable in the word tickle) kar (like.. umm Car. Emphasis on the second syllable.). I lived in Sitka for many years and had the pleasure of meeting and having some brazing work done by Porky. He was a hell of a guy and his sense of humor did not end with him.. some of the stories I’ve heard of his offsprings shenanigans in high school are nothing short of magnificent. But it’s not my place to tell those 👍🏼
My dad told me that one year Porky hired some strippers for the Alaska Day parade.
@@pstrap1311 wouldn’t doubt it, he was a WWII vet and lived like he meant it. Also, hello Pat, I remember you (Precision) hope you’re well!
I am well, thank you very much, Mr. Widget. I'm still working at Precision Boatworks. Omw there momentarily.
Did we do work for you? What's your boat name?
@@pstrap1311 I’ll just say I was there for a few years and hope Deuce and Tim and everyone else are well as well, if not still working for Mike.
In the Navy the “new guy” is always the butt of jokes. He has been sent to get some really strange things: 50 feet of chow line, 50 feet of flight line, a bucket of prop wash, a portable pad eyes and many more. The poor guy is sent all over the ship or station because all the Chiefs are in on it. And we don’t wait for 01 Apr this is fair game anytime of the year.
Basebsll teams too. A bucket of steam from the shower.
Doesn't everybody know prop wash don't come in buckets? It's stored in pressurized tanks, like propane.
Happy renewal day to you too!
Since April 1st is my birthday happy to find out the history. Love the history guy videos, learned stuff never heard about.
Hey History Guy, I have a video request. What about the history of the Cooties?
WW I
That would be a great one , I love old folk lore stories like the cooties and ring around the rosie, which if I remember correctly both comes from the bubonic plague era
@@timothy3610 History Guy did a story about Ring around the Rosie's . Not just about it I think it was the London Fire of 1666 ! It was interesting. I learned the true meaning of the song in the 70's. Knowing how many times I sang it. Well if I can sing that little diddy to Lizzy Borden Knowing that both around 5 years old!
You need a sense of humor to appreciate March 32nd. Great video!
Suggested topic: The history of history itself. When it was first recorded, by whom, how, key historians through the ages, impact on the world, etc.
The best April fools joke wasn't in April. The radio broadcast of war of the worlds.
Didn't realize Siska was supposed to be Sitka, that's where my cousins live!!
My favorite is the discovery of flying penguins as part of a BBC story. They did well and it's hilarious watching them fly.
Your awesome thanks for everything you do. I remember in Grammar School my history teacher told us a story about a German U-Boat during World War II. The crew kept hearing a banging then later on it was discovered that a worker was sealed alive with a hammer in his hand. I would love to hear this story again by you of course thanks once again
Google the twilight zone episode
Thank you for the humor.
Interesting to say the least. I was sent out in the army to get a T R double E. After about an hour later I brought a branch back to the sgt annd he gave the 3 of us the day off. Excellent episode as usual Thanks.
A fun episode, and I am happy you included the BBC's Spaghetti Harvest prank.
Never been here this early. Love your videos brother
The Spaghetti Tree Hoax! This is (or was) very well known in the United Kingdom.
I enjoy your videos so much. If you have not already done this, I’d suggest the Winecoff Hotel fire. Atlanta, 1946. Keep up the great work. You are appreciated.
Great vlog as always!
I think your Robot from Lost in Space and your Robbie the Robot miniatures are pretty cool. I am pretty sure I saw the Creature from the Black Lagoon the other day. Sci Fi fan are you?
Funny how Edison’s machine sounds like a Star Trek replicator.
11:47 Edison thought up Star Trek's Replicator 88 years before Star Trek.
I wonder if this is how my brothers came up with telling our mom that they were going Nauga hunting ...
(Naugahyde)
It's not often you're caught out on your research, Lance, but I spotted two things...
1) Charles IX of France didn't do anything in 1434 since he wasn't born! (He became King in 1560. The typically 16th century costume should have shown you the approximate date.)
2) Geoffrey Chaucer didn't live in the 13th Century, but the 14th. (Now that you certainly should have known!)
But these are just me being a smartarse -- you can tell by the spelling of that last word that I'm a Brit! -- as I hugely enjoy your very informative and amusing programmes.
Hence the origin of the word 'hilarious'.
When my high school marching band learned we would be traveling to london to march in the new years parade, we were told of it on april first
According to one French instructor I had many many many years ago, the modern April Fool's Day is pretty much associated of course with the Vernal Equinox, but also, with the conversion from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, because of the # of days that were "lost" on the calendar with the changeover. Dunno how much truth there is in that, but it's worth considering. Ah and reference to Charles IX moving the start of the year to Jan 1 sorta might have a tie to it, as the old new year dating back to the the Roman Empire was tied to the vernal equinox. That's why the months of September, October, November, and December, are months 9, 10, 11, and 12 according to their names.
Maybe all these traditions combined. Who knows.
Thanks- - I was just wondering about this.
I always thought the "get me a left handed screwdriver from the stores" order was dumb. It just gave you an excuse to skive off for a bit....
Thanks THG.
Or go find me a metric adjustable wrench.
I got the blurred Loupe with prussian blue around the edge. Now you turn the loupe to focus it. :-)