Do you think they even have April Fool’s Day, America’s beloved annual post-materialist exercise in being fucking annoying to everyone just for the sake of it, in a country such as Jordan? Fine, we’ll Wikipedia… hmm. It’s mostly a Western thing of the last few centuries, and there’s no mention of Jordan, but apparently IRAN INVENTED IT 2,500 YEARS AGO, HUH? So perhaps all the muslins do celebrate it, since they are all the same. This potential foreknowledge of upcoming wackiness would not, however, prevent Jordanians from losing their shit and rioting over alien invasions last week, thanks to the local newspaper.
Just as with American newspapers, Jordanian ones have an odd belief that they are allowed to participate in April Fool’s Day pranks, and that people might somehow appreciate them or find them funny.
AMMAN, JORDAN — A Jordanian newspaper’s April Fool’s Day report chronicling a late-night visit by 10-foot-tall aliens in flying saucers sparked public panic and almost led to the town’s emergency evacuation, officials said Monday.
The Al Ghad newspaper published a front-page article April 1 about the fake UFO landing near the desert town of Jafr, some 185 miles (300 kilometers) from the capital, Amman. The report said the UFOs lit up the whole town, interrupted communications and sent fearful residents streaming into the streets.
Jafr’s mayor, Mohammed Mleihan, got caught up in the paper’s prank and said he sent security authorities in search of the aliens.
“Students didn’t go to school, their parents were frightened and I almost evacuated the town’s 13,000 residents,” Mleihan told The Associated Press. “People were scared that aliens would attack them.”
A Jordanian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to discuss security issues, said an emergency plan was almost enacted in Jafr.
Eh, we don’t buy this “prank” excuse just yet. Reporters probably spotted a few U.S. Predator drones buzzing in the distance, wrote it up as “aliens” because there certainly could never be U.S. drones in Jordanian airspace, and only later said “Ha ha it was just a funny” after Obama personally called them to say, “Uh, look,” his African catchphrase.
[AP]
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Show us Commander Keen’s birth certificate.
Do you think Orson Welles is still alive and living with Elvis in Jordan?
Thanks town of Jafr (Retardville in Arabic) for proving Einstein’s theory of stupidity:
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
Could have been worse, like in Ecuador where they stone cold burned down the radio station: http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/war_worlds_quito.htm
THIS IS NOT A JOKE. It’s in The Holy Qur’an (Maulana Muhammad Ali translation) in verses 40-42 of Sura 36 titled “Ya Sin”:
40) Neither is it for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day. And all FLOAT on in an ORBIT.
41) And a sign to them is that We bear their OFFSPRING in the laden SHIP.
42) And WE HAVE CREATED for them the like thereof, whereon they RIDE.
This “April Fool’s Day” story is just a coverup for the fulfillment of the word of the Prophet (PBUH).
Aliens. Never funny, or always funny?
Knowing the UFO conspiracy theorists, in another decade or two this will be up there with Roswell as a claimed incident that “really happened”; and they’ll believe the newspaper said it was a prank because of threats by the government and/or actual aliens.
Jordan sounds like a fun place. Do you think they know about refrigerators running or Price Albert in a can?
John McCain immediately changed his position on illegal aliens over this.
APRIL FOOL!
Needz moar anal probez
[re=548942]Sharkey[/re]: Well, that Mork was funny back in the day; until he got off the coke and started doing kids’ crap. On the other hand, neither Vulcans nor Klingons have a sense of humor.
[re=548944]JMP[/re]: Decade? I’m willing to bet that True Believers are already spouting this conspiracy theory.
wait wait, wasn’t this on CNN a while back? Some shit about aliens and leprosy or something? no wait, that was lou dobbs.
Dear Aliens,
Your kind is not welcome here. Go back where you came from.
Sincerely,
Tom Tancredo
This is obviously a preposterous lie designed to make the people of Jordan look like a bunch of idiots. Really now, would you expect that the population of a modern country would believe such nonsense? Forget for a moment that many of them believe the inhabitants of a country right on their border have actual horns on their heads and use the blood of Gentile babies in their matzoh, both of which would be fairly easy to dismiss with simple observations — calling Jordanians a mess of ignorant bumpkins would be jumping to conclusions. Let’s call them proto-Texans instead.
[re=548967]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Ehhhh…not quite foreigny enough. How about…ummm…Indossippians?
It’s a PR move, to put the delicious Jordan almonds into mind.
It worked on me, anyway.
[re=548967]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Gee, do you think you’re a little prejudiced?
Al Ghad has lost all credibility with me. What is a ghad anyway, a fox?
Y SO SRS, JRDN?
Seems the teabaggers have a lot more in common with these people than I thought
[re=548967]SayItWithWookies[/re]: “proto-Texans” Heh heh.
[re=548997]Jukesgrrl[/re]: That WAS pretty good.
[re=548967]SayItWithWookies[/re]: You funnin’ me, Boy?
[re=548986]zhubajie[/re]: Unfortunately I’m not being prejudiced much. Anti-Semitism in Arab countries is virulent, widespread and beyond the realm of sanity. I know I’m responding way late, but I didn’t see this for a while — nevertheless, thought I should respond. Here’s an example of what I mean:
http://dukechronicle.com/article/decision-time-arab-world
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