Talk:Spaghetti tree

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This first sentence seems a bit... grating?

Perhaps not insulting peoples' intelligences would be a better path to walk.

209.51.87.105 18:47, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

It looks fine to me. --Bonalaw 08:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
  1. I've edited it -- Joeyfjj 06:45, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other hoax

In the 1970s I remember seeing a television program about famous hoaxes. One was the spaghetti tree hoax and the other was a hoax involving the creation of a fraudulent citizens' organization (in the 1950s?) to promote the covering up of male dogs' hindquarters (and thus improving society's morals) by making them wear underwear. Many American citizens, hearing about this, clamored to join this organization (but were later saddened to find out that they'd "been had"). I have never subsequently been able to find information about the origin or perpetrator(s) of this hoax and am hoping that someone knows something about this. Badagnani 23:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Buck Henry AnonMoos 17:35, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Or more directly: Society for Indecency to Naked Animals. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 22:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Big thanks for this. I'd been looking for years. You guys are clearly experts on the subject of hoaxes! I see from the bibliography that Alan Abel has written a couple of books about his hoaxes. Badagnani 21:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Delmonico Spaghetti

I have removed this from the article:

The Spaghetti tree myth was also used in a popular 1970s TV commercial for Delmonico spaghetti.[citation needed]

Because it did not cite a source, and all internet references to the Delmonico spaghetti TV commercial link in a circular manner back to this Wikipedia article.

Further any references to Delmonico as a producer of spaghetti are hard to find. --Drappel 14:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What?

This could use a little better wording -> "At the time of the broadcast there were 7 million homes in Britain with television sets, out of a total of 15.8 million homes."