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Old 03-April-2003, 03:14 PM
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Default Dark Side Of The Moon TV April Fools Joke

Hi! my first post to this website!

anyway, ive noticed a few of the posters at this site are aussies, and may or may not have posted this, but anyway...

on tuesday this week, SBS (tv station here in australia) played an interesting documentry titled "Dark Side Of The Moon". it showed interviews with high ranking US government officials such as Donald Rumsfeld and Henry Kessenger detailing how, during the Nixon years, the moon landing videos couldnt be broadcasted from the moon. so they decided to fake the videos, but they only had two weeks to do it in! they couldnt set the sets up in time, but 2001: a space oddessy was wrapping up production in england, so why not use their sets? and while we're at it, we'll let Stanley Kubrick direct the thing.

the documentry was fairly convincing, using actual government officials was one of the key elements in this documentry. there was no mention that the moon landings didnt take place, just that the videos were fake.

anyway, i was getting really confused by the whole thing until the end of the show, when it showed outtakes of the interviews. it was all scripted! it also had a disclaimer at the end of it! then it all fall into place, April first!

anyway, SBS showed this documentry after two other networks showed the FOX documentry (die! die! die!) and another with the aussie 60 minutes moon landing story (the interviewer making bart look like an idiot, and some other couk saying that NASA is covering up a lost civilisation on the moon)

well, thanks for your time, guys!
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