by Alex Boese (Author)
What is it that gives us such delight in hoaxing the gullible? The April Fool perpetrated by Burger King who advertised they were to produce left-handed hamburgers for the 32 million left-handed Americans. They were inundated with eager buyers...The famous BBC TV 'Spaghetti Tree' hoax...The outrage caused by Taco Bell's announcement that they had purchased the Liberty Bell and henceforth it would be known as the 'Taco Liberty Bell' ...Taken from the website www.museumofhoaxes.com this is a hilarious collection of hoaxes which proves just how gullible human beings are.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Orion
Published: 18 Aug 2005
ISBN 10: 0752864262
ISBN 13: 9780752864266
Book Overview: The notorious website (www museumofhoaxes.com) gets 50,000 hits a month. This is the perfect humour book for Christmas - a must for everyone's Christmas stocking. Wonderful promotion possibilities. Alex Boese is the creator and curator of the website www museumofhoaxes.com which began in 1997 as research notes for his dissertation. 'Required reading ... there's everything from a woman who supposedly gave birth to a litter of rabbits in 1726 to a widely disseminated photo of a 380-pound cat in the 1990s' New York Post. 'As entertaining as it is well researched' Entertainment Today. 'If you have a taste for the wild and wacky stories that have fooled people who should have known better you'll enjoy this ... some of the most outrageous deceptions, stunts and hoaxes that have been inflicted on the ever-gullible public ... Hilarious' Sunday Express.
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