Just saying, apparently some beleive it!
Plenty of (intelligent even!) people do!
I posted this elswhere:
It reminds me of the BMW advert a few years back (they always like to do a spoof ad on 1st April) which declared they were introducing 'Aromatronic' as an extra. The idea was the car would reproduce the aromas of the area it was passing through and shove them out through the air vents, to give the passengers an idea of what was going on outside. So if you were going through a forest it would smell of pine trees; if you were going through an industrial area it would smell of sulphur dioxide; if you were in Provence it would smell of lavender. You get the gist. It had been developed by their new unit in Stinkenburg in the Black Forest...
I tell you this because my local newspaper, which has an awful 'award-winning' Motoring section on a Friday and reproduces stories it's seen elsewhere, picked this up and reproduced it about 2 months later without realising it had appeared on 1st April...
My local rag actually took it seriously!
The BBC are well-known for their spoofs. Plenty were taken in by the half-hour programme about the Italian spaghetti harvest, back in 1957. The entire orchard of trees laden with spaghetti was a sight to behold!
And more recently when astronomer Patrick Moore did a spoof programme about Pluto passing directly behind Jupiter, which would momentarily affect gravity on earth and if you jumped up at precisely the right time you would get a weigthless feeling, the BBC were inundated with phone calls from elated people who claimed they had felt exactly that...!
