is it just me
or are all of those stories shit?

They aren't particularly funny or fooling
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 9:33, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

They've become a journalism in joke
www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hadron-collider-ii-planned-for-circle-line-1932744.html
They're generally shit unless they're written in a very good way.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 9:34, Reply)

I like that one
particularly this bit
"It would mean that two beams of protons would be travelling in clockwise and counterclockwise directions at 99.999999 per cent of the speed of light, within feet of Circle line passengers stuck in perpetual immobility."
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 9:37, Reply)

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(PsychoChomp, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 9:41, Reply)

I liked the ferret one
but that's because I'm currently looking after my sister's ferret and there's no way it could have anything to do with broadband installation, it's way too retarded.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 9:38, Reply)

What is his/her name?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 9:51, Reply)

She calls him Murphy
I call him Vin Weasel.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 9:52, Reply)

Hahah you fucking crank

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 9:53, Reply)

what's a crank?
I've never heard of that!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 10:01, Reply)