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The Museum of Hoaxes is dedicated to promoting knowledge about hoaxes. (Click here for opening hours, etc.) On our blog we post about dubious- sounding claims, and whatever else strikes our fancy. The site is also home to the Hoaxipedia (the museum's online encyclopedia of hoaxes), and the Hoax Forum.

The museum was created in 1997 by Alex Boese. He's assisted by a staff of deputy curators and docents. Alex is the author of three books, most recently Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (which has nothing to do with hoaxes). Check out the list of the Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time for a preview.



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#25: Guinness Mean Time
In 1998 Guinness issued a press release announcing that it had reached an agreement with the Old Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England to be the official beer sponsor of the Observatory's millennium celebration. According to this agreement, Greenwich Mean Time would be renamed Guinness Mean Time until the end of 1999. In addition, where the Observatory traditionally counted seconds in "pips," it would now count them in "pint drips." The Financial Times, not realizing that the release was a joke, declared that Guinness was setting a "brash tone for the millennium." When the Financial Times learned that it had fallen for a joke, it printed a curt retraction, stating that the news it had disclosed "was apparently intended as part of an April 1 spoof."

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thta is good
Posted by seamus  in  York  on  Tue Feb 22, 2005  at  01:37 AM
Smileys That is awesome! Too bad they didn't really do that!
Posted by Angelina  on  Mon Mar 28, 2005  at  11:48 PM
Financial Times- Idiots!
Posted by Jennifer M.  in  Houston, TX  on  Wed Mar 22, 2006  at  01:10 PM
gutted out their faces
Posted by alice wright  in  home lol  on  Tue Apr 03, 2007  at  01:02 PM
I liked the "Taco Liberty Bell" joke better, but still pretty funny
Posted by Emelia  in  CT  on  Wed Jan 30, 2008  at  01:51 AM
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