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Mark Diacono's avatar

Excellent. I do love a good April Fool but most are...disappointing. I did once manage to convince someone that Evel Knievel's brother Good Knievel was going to be down the beach that afternoon jumping 100 motorbikes in a double decker bus

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Alex Johnson's avatar

Yes, I'm very partial, but as you say, they have to be good ones. Speaking of Mr Knievel, have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww-tZKWiVhc

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Mark Diacono's avatar

I haven't but am very glad I now have! thank you

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John-Paul Flintoff's avatar

Brilliant. I do believe that if you set yourself a bizarre constraint as a writer it can be enormously liberating. I used to do something like that penguin thing in the monthly features I wrote for a business magazine - not that word but others likewise weird. Mind you, nothing like as tough as the constraints Georges Perec set himself...

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Alex Johnson's avatar

Thank you. Yes, it certainly adds a certain spice to it all.

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