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	San Serriffe

heedley

4-6-2007 11:18 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f61b1d9d-22af-48f3-ad76-ed761226dd08/AF4D24CC-B59E-429F-95BB-D3A14A6BC9B0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San_Serriffe&oldid=119582134" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San_Serriffe&oldid=119582134" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San_Serriffe&oldid=119582134"><H1 class="firstHeading">San Serriffe</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San_Serriffe&oldid=119582134"><P><B>San Serriffe</B> is a <A title="Fiction" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiction">fictional</A> <A title="Island nation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_nation">island nation</A> created for <A title="April Fools' Day" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day">April Fools' Day</A>. An elaborate description of the nation, using <A title="Pun" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun">puns</A> and plays on words relating to <A title="Typography" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography">typography</A> (such as "<A title="Sans serif" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans_serif">sans serif</A>"), was reported as legitimate news, apparently fooling many readers who did not understand the joke and did not understand that there was a reason that the island was also known as Hoaxe.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San_Serriffe&oldid=119582134"><P>The first version of the <A title="Hoax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax">hoax</A> appeared in the <A title="United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">British</A> newspaper <I><A title="The Guardian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian">The Guardian</A></I> on <A title="April 1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1">1 April</A> <A title="1977" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977">1977</A>. A seven-page supplement was published in the style of contemporary reviews of foreign countries, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the island's independence, complete with themed advertisements from major companies. The island was reused for similar hoaxes in 1978, 1980 and 1999.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AF4D24CC-B59E-429F-95BB-D3A14A6BC9B0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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