The casual but enormous risk taken with this 1989 prank merits its inclusion. In a publicity-stunt-cum-April-Fool-joke, Richard Branson flew across London in a hot-air balloon made to look like an alien spacecraft. The plan had been to land in Hyde Park, where everyone would chuckle and run off to buy tickets on Branson’s new airline, Virgin Galactic
10 Comments
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
I would like to know the other 9 please
sawdustprophet@midwest.social · 13 pts · 2y
This is what the link in the article is to.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I think they meant Atlantic!
kadotux@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 2y
what is a publicity-stunt-cum?
mwproductions@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
In this case, cum basically means "as well as being."
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cum
jj4211@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
ask Johnny Sins
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Thank you for telling me the other 9
wyrmroot@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y
Classic Porky
otacon239@feddit.de · 5 pts · 2y
Just a prank, bro
synae@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y
That's a lot of spray paint