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Best April Fool's Day prank ever? April 1, 1957 - BBC prank extraordinaire. (Original Post) usonian 12 hrs ago OP
Hilarious! GiqueCee 12 hrs ago #1
Repugs are fighting for allowing immigrants to stick around but only until the spaghetti picking Wonder Why 11 hrs ago #2
Was one of those farmers wearing high heels? nt GenThePerservering 10 hrs ago #3
I wasn't looking. I'm not a shoe person. usonian 10 hrs ago #4

GiqueCee

(4,259 posts)
1. Hilarious!
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 11:32 AM
12 hrs ago

I first heard about this elaborate prank 60 years ago when my soon-to-be mother-in-law had been in England in the late '50's and saw it on the telly. And believed it! This is the first time I've actually seen it, though!
Thank you, usonian!

Wonder Why

(7,029 posts)
2. Repugs are fighting for allowing immigrants to stick around but only until the spaghetti picking
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:46 PM
11 hrs ago

season is over to placate MAGA farmers in Venice, Florida who are demanding subsidies in spite of wanting to cut "unwarranted" assistance to the poor.

usonian

(25,328 posts)
4. I wasn't looking. I'm not a shoe person.
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 01:24 PM
10 hrs ago

On close look, it seems mostly flats, with the possibility of the woman navigating the terribly steep stairs in high heels.

Now, I remember reading a book on furniture, and those incredibly ornate legs on Victorian furniture.

It seems that extreme Victorian modesty concealed a foot fetish, or (you saw this coming) podophilia.

I won't say more because this has gotten way too



For more, search victorian fetish on legs and feet Preferably not using Google, unless you like ads of that sort.

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