Main Gallery: 1990-1999 1992: Ghostwatch Nationwide TV seance unleashes malevolent spirits 1993: Arm the Homeless Soliciting donations for providing the homeless with weaponry 1995: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers Italian researcher discovers ice-boring wildlife in Antarctica 1996: The Taco Liberty Bell Fast food chain buys and renames historic treasure 1996: The Sokal Hoax Physicist lampoons humanities scholars 1998: The Left-Handed Whopper Fast food chain re-engineers burger for left-handed customers 1999: Kristen Clougherty's Cancer Fraud South Boston woman fakes cancer Topics from this period that you'll have to buy the book to read about: Operation Blackbird How an operation to determine the reality of crop circles went dreadfully wrong Doug and Dave These two gentlemen claimed to be responsible for the crop circle phenomenon, but many disagreed The BMW Crop Circle It took a week for people to realize that the pattern in the rye field was a BMW logo Cross-dressing Ken How the Ken doll finally came out of the closet Milli Vanilli The sad tale of the lip-synching pop idols Nixon for President In a surprise move, Richard Nixon decides to run for President one more time Drunk Driving on the Internet Legislators declare that being drunk on a highway is bad, no matter what kind of highway it is Alabama Changes the Value of Pi The Alabama state legislature changes the value of Pi back to the 'biblical value' of 3.0 Webnode Selling nodes on the Next Generation Internet Russia Sells Lenin's Body In a desperate bid to raise cash, Russia sells its most famous corpse Grungegate How the New York Times learned to speak Grunge Microsoft Buys the Catholic Church Microsoft acquires exclusive electronic rights to the Bible The Sibuxiang Beast The Chinese panicked when they learned the fearsome Sibuxiang Beast was on the loose A Call to Queen Elizabeth A Canadian DJ hoaxes the Queen Allegra Coleman Esquire magazine wows Hollywood when it finds the hot new up-and-coming star Ourfirsttime.com A couple loses its virginity live on the internet Ron's Angels Buy the eggs of a supermodel, eBay style eBay Auctions eBay, where everything is bought and sold, including cocaine, kidneys, and human souls Y2K Solved High School student confounds the experts by solving the dreaded Y2K bug The Y2K CD Bug Y2K threatens to cripple CD technology

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