# April Fool's articles I wish were real **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-articles-i-wish-were-real/534577 "2010-04-01T15:04:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-articles-i-wish-were-real/534577/1 "2010-04-01T15:04:50Z")
Wikipedia’s entry on Wife Selling in English society. That looked so interesting for about ten seconds before I remembered the date. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-articles-i-wish-were-real/534577/2 "2010-04-01T15:50:08Z")
The article is real. Wife selling was a way that people got around the restrictive divorce laws of the 17th and 18th centuries. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-articles-i-wish-were-real/534577/3 "2010-04-01T18:19:48Z")
[Pitching Phenom Sidd Finch.](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/news/2000/07/24/finch_flash/) This is old, but damn, that’s the best piece of April Fool’s writing I’ve ever read. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-articles-i-wish-were-real/534577/4 "2010-04-01T18:46:43Z")
The one on NPR this morning about a CD of dirty English drinking songs from the 1800s. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-articles-i-wish-were-real/534577/5 "2010-04-02T00:13:43Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > The one on NPR this morning about a CD of dirty English drinking songs from the 1800s. Aww, I missed that one. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-articles-i-wish-were-real/534577/6 "2010-04-02T00:18:37Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > [Pitching Phenom Sidd Finch.](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/news/2000/07/24/finch_flash/) > > This is old, but damn, that’s the best piece of April Fool’s writing I’ve ever read. Concur. I don’t think anything will ever top Sidd Finch. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-articles-i-wish-were-real/534577/7 "2010-04-02T00:49:34Z")
I finally figured out that today’s Wikipedia articles had misleading descriptions or were about implausible sounding things but were true articles. :o Oh well, still a topic worthy of discussion. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-articles-i-wish-were-real/534577/8 "2010-04-02T13:56:09Z")
[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/04/01/top-shelf-announces-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-1988/](http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/04/01/top-shelf-announces-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-1988/) ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-articles-i-wish-were-real/534577/9 "2010-04-03T05:45:22Z")
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