When did Orson Welles do his radio stunt, dramatising HGWells's story (name
eludes me) as if it was happening, and supposedly creating panic in listeners?
not on april first, I guess...
Max
Quoting Martin Walker <[log in to unmask]>:
> The funny thing is, the Germans don't have an April Narr (fool).
> All the Anglo-Saxon media attempts at such jokes (& this one) I saw
> yesterday were terribly obvious, as if there were a fear to create such an
> insidious & verisimilitudinous deception that people would turn on the
> perpetrator when s/he revealed her/his deceit.
> mj
> _______________________________________
> But I am but a nameless sort of person
> (A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
> And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
> The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
>
> - George Gordon, Lord Byron
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Stimulus plans to include poetry
>
>
> > April April fools.
> >
> > --- On Wed, 4/1/09, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Stimulus plans to include poetry
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 4:35 PM
> >
> > LOL
> >
> > KS
> >
> > 2009/4/1 Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >> Thought this might be of interest ....
> >>
> >> =====
> >>
> >> Washington (CNS) - In a surprising twist on the administration's
> >> economic stimulus plan, a proposal is being floated to include funds
> >> for the purchase of poetry in the program.
> >>
> >> According to White House congressional liaison aide April Narr, the
> >> proposal is still under development, but it is conceived as involving
> >> substantial grants to American poetry publications to pass on to their
> >> contributing poets in payment for their work. "The working
> > idea,"
> >> said Narr, "is to consult experts to draw up a list of the hundred
> >> best established poetry journals in the country, and give them federal
> >> economic stimulus grants so they can pay their poets much more for
> >> their work. The target figure is $1,000 per line."
> >>
> >> Though some may question the effectiveness of trying to restart the
> >> American economy by paying money to poets, Narr maintained that "the
> >> whole idea of the economic stimulus plan is to get people to buy
> >> things, and why should buying poetry be any different from buying
> >> apples or toothpaste?"
> >>
> >> Since poets are typically starving artists, Narr continued, they would
> >> be likely to spend their increased revenues on basic foodstuffs, such
> >> as bread, and usually being bohemian types they would also spend the
> >> money on wine and cheese, making this part of the stimulus
> >> "potentially of significant benefit to our nation's baking,
> >> wine-making, and dairy industries."
> >>
> >> Narr admitted, though, that there was some concern that the proposed
> >> $1,000 per line payments might result in a proliferation of poems with
> >> very short lines.
> >>
> >> Asked if she herself is a poetry fan, Narr replied, "Yes, I am a
> > great
> >> fan. In school I got to recite The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe in a
> >> pageant."
> >>
> >> =====
> >>
> >> --
> >> ===============================================
> >>
> >> Jon Corelis http://jcorelis.googlepages.com/joncorelis
> >>
> >> ===============================================
> >>
>
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