Humor Orson Welles rides again?

I guess only the Brits can get away with this. I know my town freaked out over a fake bill about forcing everyone to wear mime outfits (which is a fairly lame joke anyway). People can take things waaaay too seriously, especially the news.
 
Izack said:
I guess only the Brits can get away with this. I know my town freaked out over a fake bill about forcing everyone to wear mime outfits (which is a fairly lame joke anyway). People can take things waaaay too seriously, especially the news.
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The Brits are quite capable of taking things waaaay too seriously too.

Remember October 1st 1992? The BBC responsible for a mass panic for screening a TV programme called "GhostWatch". It was cleverly timed so that the warning about the programme being entirely fictional was right at the beginning, but the beginning of the programme overlapped a very popular programme on the other channel, so many viewers turned over and missed the message. They therefore never broke any rules, but I think they knew what they were doing!

The programme has been banned from being screened again since, but it is available on Google Video - and having seen it again now (I was 15 when it was screened), I cannot see what the fuss was about - it was so obviously a set-up that I can't believe anyone fell for it.

So we may have laughed previously at the American reaction to Orson Wells' War of the Worlds, but we haven't been able to laugh about it for the last 17 and a half years... :lol:
 
Yes, a poor sub-plot vehicle where "The Bill" actors go when they can't act anymore. Wasting my licence fee again...

N.
 
You mean I'm paying for Europe's tv as well! I'm deeply shocked.

N.
 
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