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EDIT 9:50 p.m. EST 04/01/2008: Click here for a MAJOR BREAKING UPDATE regarding this news story!

Details about this will soon be released to the press via regular channels, but here is what The Knight Shift has learned…

Rockingham County, North Carolina – the #1 tobacco-producing region in the entire country – will soon become the first 100% tobacco-free area in the United States.

What this means is: no smoking anywhere in public, no smoking in private homes, and no cultivation of tobacco on the many farms throughout the county.

It’s part of a deal between county officials and the U.S. Department of Public Health. In exchange for “willingly” giving up tobacco, the federal government will disburse $120 million to assist Rockingham County’s medical and preventative health infrastructure.

If all goes according to plan, there won’t be a cigarette, cigar, pouch of chewing tobacco, or can of tobacco seed ...

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I’ve heard from about 4 or 5 people today who told me that they visited my blog during Sunday and were completely convinced that I had joined the Amish, as was posted here during April Fools Day. That’s about ten or so people close to me that I know of who were taken in by the gag.

To say that I’m not giggling about this stunt’s success would be an understatement 🙂 Now I just have to figure how to top this for next year…...

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In case you didn’t get to see it, all during April Fools Day this site became “Plain Blog written by Brother Christopher Knight”. In true Amish style, it was a black page with white Times New Roman font (to be as “plain” as possible, and I also didn’t use italics because that would be akin to the whole thing about buttons on clothes that Amish have) and it announced that Lisa and I had chosen to join the local Amish community.

As you’ve no doubt surmised by this post, Lisa and I have not decided to “be plain” after all. I couldn’t resist doing this.The idea came last year to do an April Fools prank with my blog, and from the getgo the plan was to write about how Lisa and I had decided to join the Amish and give up the Internet forever. But it was like late evening ...

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