Hornby Shrinking Booth

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Hornby Shrinking Booth

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Best april fools story I have seen for a long time
Great grandson of Peter Benjamin Spicer (LNWR retired deceased)
Nephew of Cecil Roberts Spicer (GWR retired deceasd)
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My wife was howling with laughter this morning over Hotel Chocolat's new Chocolate scented and textured paint.
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Shows the media and marketing teams of a load of companies can make entertaining and watchable stuff

poses a question about why the stuff for the rest of the year tends to be so utterly dire
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This one is still my favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4

I almost believed it for a second, and I'm a nature nerd!
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aleopardstail wrote: Tue Apr 01, 2025 8:53 pm Shows the media and marketing teams of a load of companies can make entertaining and watchable stuff, poses a question about why the stuff for the rest of the year tends to be so utterly dire
The 'disturbed creatives' can produce this stuff any time. But holding the purse strings in most businesses is a group of corporate drones that have been expensively treated to ensure all traces of a sense of humour have been eliminated, and little gets past them, save on that half day when the whacky stuff is granted licence...
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