Alabama's science-hating GOP legislature mocked in one of the all-time great April Fools' pranks
Alabama’s science-hating GOP legislature mocked in one of the all-time great April Fools’ pranks
TRAVIS GETTYS
01 APR 2019 AT 11:23 ET
The conservative Alabama state legislature’s reputation for hating science was mocked in one the most famous April Fools’ Day pranks of all time.
A rumor circulated on April 1, 1998, that an Alabama Republican had introduced legislation rounding down the value of pi to a whole number — and the parody was so plausible that it recirculates over and over, reported AL.com.
“NASA engineers and mathematicians in this high-tech city are stunned and infuriated after the Alabama state legislature narrowly passed a law yesterday [March 30, 1998] redefining pi, a mathematical constant used in the aerospace industry,” reads the parody posted to an online news group.
“The bill to change the value of pi to exactly three was introduced without fanfare by Leonard Lee Lawson (R-Crossville),” the prank continues, “and rapidly gained support after a letter-writing campaign by members of the Solomon Society, a traditional values group. Governor Guy Hunt says he will sign it into law.”
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Dude was so corrupt he made Nixon look like an amateur.
