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Fake can be funny! Imagine this scenario: after an intimate bout with your girlfriend, you're confronted with an unpleasant case of condom failure. To play it safe, you offer to get her a home pregancy test, which, to her dismay, comes up positive. At the doorstep of the abortion clinic, you turn to meet her tear-drenched eyes, smile wide, and say...April Fools! That was a Fakenewspapers.com

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This LA Times article describes a Moscow travel agency that will, for a moderate fee, give you a fake vacation."If the customer is an errant husband who wants his wife to believe he's on a fishing trip, Persey offers not just photos of him on the river, but a cellphone with a distant number, a lodge that if anyone calls will swear the husband is checked in but not available, and a few dead fish

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Lance Armstrong'sLivestrong charity bandLivestrong bands, the $1 yellow rubber bracelets sold to support and raise awareness for Lance Armstrong's cancer survivor charity, have become completely devoid of humanitarian meaning. They do, however, appear on the wrist of every preteen with a modicum of trendiness, and are the primary fixture of a huge fashion craze.Like you'd expect of any easily

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With the spread of cell phones, a new phenomenon has emerged in which phones are used to communicate not with the person on the other end of the line, but to communitcate with whoever is in earshot of the caller. This article describes how many people pretend to make phone calls in order to communicate a variety of messages to their surrounding environment.Some stage calls to avoid contact,

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While "the one that got away" might seem like a harmless, if not entirely truthful, fish story, this article tells the accounts of some not-so-innocuous ones.One British fisherman, after raising a record-breaking trout in captivity and then passing it off as wild for eight years, had this to say about his indiscretion: "[It] destroyed me, my marriage and everything I ever wanted. I felt so guilty

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The stove traditionally used at the Sistine Chapel to burn ballots​The cardinals will convene at the Sistine Chapel on Monday to select a new pope. Following tradition, their ballots will be burned in a stove within the church. If white smoke comes out, it signals that a new pope has been chosen, while black smoke signifies that a conclusion hasn't yet been reached. But to avoid the possibility

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A Louisiana woman was arrested after sending a forged fax that would have released her boyfriend from jail. The kicker? It worked once before:Sheriff George H. Payne Jr. praised his security and records staff for catching the counterfeit documents. Payne said the couple used the same technique to obtain Dugan's unauthorized release from a St. Martinsville, La., parish jail on charges of probation

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